One Week To Go!
Preorders, Event Info, Fear, Dread, and Packing Cubes
Hi! This Time Tomorrow comes out in one week. I’m feeling totally calm, you know, just cool as a cucumber.
Have you preordered yet? Click here to preorder from Books Are Magic, and click here to preorder from the independent bookstore of your choice! Click here to preorder from Barnes and Noble. Those are all signed! In the UK? Click here to preorder a signed copy from Waterstone’s. Those are signed too!
Okay, now that you’ve preordered, I feel more like this.
How is Breckin Meyer doing these days? I hope he’s okay.
My trip to the UK was a good trial run for my book tour, except that I was just in one place the whole time and checked a humongous suitcase with three pairs of shoes and two jackets and two sweaters and a different outfit for every single day. My spiritual leader Roxane Gay (don’t bother her about it, she doesn’t need to know) is an expert traveler, and I feel like if I checked a bag on my book tour, she would be disappointed in me, and so I’m not going to do it. But how? Truly, how. I will be gone for ten days on the first leg, and doing ten events (with two travel days and two double-headers.) I’m planning to do laundry at the mid-way point, but who knows! If you come and see me in Milwaukee or Chicago and I seem a bit unwashed, I probably am, and I apologize in advance.
Let’s talk about those tour dates, though!
May 17! My launch party! At Books Are Magic, of course. With Bobby Finger, and special guests. Tickets here. It will be really fun, and my children are coming, for the first time since they were babies. Excited and terrified.
May 18! Nashville! At Parnassus Books, with the astonishing Margaret Renkl. Lucky me. Tickets and info here.
May 19, Washington DC, at Politics and Prose, with the very lovely and funny Jennifer Close, of Ketchup marrying fame. Tickets here, BYO ketchup.
May 21, the San Antonio Book Festival! I have an actual night off! Please tell me where I should eat. Tickets and info here.
May 23- Lunch at Pages, in Manhattan Beach, with Janelle Brown, one of my faves! Tickets and info here.
May 23- Warwicks….at night! La Jolla, come through! Tickets and info here.
May 24- Warwicks….in the daytime! Let’s do lunch! Tickets here!
May 24— Diesel Books, in Los Angeles, with Brentwood’s favorite son, Antoine Wilson! Tickets and info here.
May 25— Magic City Books, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My first trip to Oklahoma! Tickets and info here.
May 26 — Milwaukee! At the Elm Grove Woman’s Club, hosted by the inimitable Boswells’s! Tickets and info here.
May 27 — Chicago! Lunchtime with Exile in Bookville! With Jessamine Chan! We’ve been on television together so we’re basically sisters. Info here!
Now please give me any and all packing advice. I roll things. What else should I be doing? I bought some packing cubes. Will that help? Only time will tell.
(I haven’t actually watched Euphoria, because I think it looks too scary, but this is about where I’m at right now.)
Best packing tip is to find a laundromat near your hotel that will do the laundry for you; much less expensive than the service through the hotel, and they can usually turn it around in half a day. Good luck!
Emma! Your newsletter is so fun and chatty. I love it. So glad you are doing one. Seeing it in my inbox makes me smile. I hesitate to give advice to you on anything but here's a packing tip that helped me (a chronic and habitual overpacker): take out everything you want to bring and put it on your bed (or table or wherever you pack). Then take away (get ready!) HALF. Yes. Half. It is so painful when you do it but it works. And- only bring two pairs of shoes MAX (you get three if you're going to a beach, cause flip flops don't really count- that's a rule I made up).
Or forget all this, pack whatever you want and check that bag! Life is short and overpacking is not a moral failure. I'm coming to see you in DC and will bring a sweater in case you are cold. ;)