News, if you can find it

In book news: Tour is over, the main part anyway. Thank you to everyone who came out to see us. Woody was a perfect gentlemen at all events. We don’t need to talk about his gas attacks. The tour was a blast and I’m very tired and never want to drive anywhere again. (Except I’m thinking of driving to Denver, if I can find a bookstore to host an event. Woody likes Colorado. Maybe in the fall so we can camp in the truck and I can catch some trout on the way.)

We do have a few events coming up—the Chicago Book Festival, the Mississippi Book Festival, the event in Santa Monica on August 27th, you can sign up here. And of course, we’ll be at the Texas Book Festival.

Okay. Where were we? Back in Austin. Waiting on email, as always. Waiting on this guy at Aamco to figure out why my four wheel drive doesn’t work. Waiting to hear back about an apartment. I hate waiting.

If you’ve read Monster, please review it somewhere. I don’t care if the review is good or bad or says MESSI IS OVERRATED. It doesn’t matter even a little. All that matters to the algorithmic overlords is that there are reviews. And if Monster’s going to find its audience, it needs some reviews. We all know how I feel about those websites. But it’s the way things are and things aren’t great for nonfiction in this time of what the fuck. Thank you.

It’s impossible to discuss current events because no one knows what the fuck is happening. The news isn’t news and social media is just people trying to sell you things and AI videos making fun of AI videos. I don’t know where to find news. Does anyone?

Here’s a picture of Woody before the paywall.