It's 4:00 a.m. on Monday morning, and in 24 hours (well, 25) I will try to do something about my hair (always an effort) and get on a plane for New York. Just wrapped up the talk I'm giving at Yale on April 4th, and fear I have totally confused myself and will accidentally give a lecture on one of the many things I have obsessed about while manic over the years, like (relatively recently) basketball, which I suspect will not be popular as a topic for a Master's Tea. Wish me luck on that.

Wednesday's when it really begins: I'll be on the radio show “Writers on Writing” on the Bay Area's NPR station KUCI-FM, 9:30 a.m., April 2. It's a killer show, and I'm thinking by then I'll have organized my brain enough to actually talk about writing, rather than basketball. We can only hope. The next day I've got my first reading at RJ Julia Bookstore in New Haven, CT. I have, as of this moment, no blasted idea what to read, and have strangely forgotten the entire book. I'll come up with something.

Note on schedule changes:
-Pace University, April 1, has been cancelled.
-The Seattle Town Hall "Forum on the Future of Health," on April 22, is ON. I'll let you know the time ASAP. If you're local, don't miss this. I intend to say at least one interesting thing, and will be wearing cool shoes.

Update on media thangs: this will change frequently, and I'll keep you posted on additions as they come in. West Coast media is just barely started as yet, so you West Coasters, just keep your hats on.

Week of April 7 (pub week): Interviews in/on

• Time.com
• GalleyCat
• People Magazine
• The Washington Post
  

April 8:

• The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, 11:00 a.m. ET

April 9 (pub date):

• "The Early Show" on CBS, 11:00 a.m. ET.

• For Vermont locals: Vermont Radio (WBTN—1370 AM), time TBD

April 10:

• "Here & Now," NPR (locals in Boston area, that's WBUR), 2:00 p.m. ET

April 15, Toronto (all times TK):

• CTV Network — "Canada AM"
• CFRB 1010 Radio — "The Leslie Roberts Show"
• Rogers Cable – ‘Fine Print with Carolyn Weaver”
  

April 19:

• Live streaming video interview—podcast available a few hours later. iDream.tv, 5-7 p.m. CST

April 24:

• "Early Mornings" on KVON, Northern California, 8:30 a.m. PT
• "Between the Lines," Associated Press Radio, time TK

...So, my friends, there you have it. With the assistance of my dear friend Ashley, I have made a truly comprehensive and perhaps absurdly over-detailed list of things to pack, which is actually a list of exactly what to wear at all times for the entire month of tour, which I actually need, because when I'm on tour I get so totally sleep-deprivation-addled that I need to consult a list in order not to go wandering out of the hotel in my underwear because the options of clothes I could wear confused me too much. The media escorts will not like this. In fact, as you'll read in Madness, there was a minor incident in London while I was on hardcover tour for Wasted; I had gone more or less around the bend, and was totally bats, and at some point found myself running down a rainy street, broke a heel, and went careening into a shoe store yelling, "U.S. SIZE SIX! BLACK HEEL!" and they were extremely nice and gentle with me, which was good of them, and then I went (posessed of said new black heel) running down the street again to get to my hotel to meet the media escort to go to BBC-TV, and she was very concerned that I was soaking wet (but I had both shoes!) and insisted that no, I must have a dry suit.

The idea is, obviously, not to go bats on this tour. I'll keep you posted.

Tour blog #1 scheduled for Wednesday. Keep an eye out.

Many thanks to all of you for your continued support of my work. It means the world.

Be well,
Marya