Yee-haw, Texas!

I am thrilled to annouce that I'm one of the 300 authors going to one of the biggest and best literary festivals in the world, the Texas Book Festival. I'll be there on October 17, and I hope to meet Margaret Atwood behind the statehouse at dawn to have a duel over the defintion of "science fiction."

(In this picture, I am not going to Texas, but to Mongolia, with my backpack and bedroll and manuscript that's due in a few days and I will turn it in before leaving the grid, Karen my editor, I promise. I just thought the hat made it appropos.)