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* the future * culture  More words about demos and cons   So,
this happened. I went to the Kingston WritersFest, where I was
on a panel with Margaret Atwood and Corey Redekop. It was a
really fun panel, but I felt kind of embarrassed about how I
fumbled through my reading. Also, I didn’t sell very many books.
Given that my publisher helped send me there, I feel like I
didn’t bear out their investment. On the other hand, I was there
to represent a series of novels, one of which has a brown guy on
the cover, and at Atwood’s request I read a section of the book
that details blowjob technique.   Actually, she asked about “the
part with the little girls.” Which I realise sounds even worse.
Aside from feeling like I didn’t do my best, I noticed a few
things about the convention. First, it wasn’t a convention, but
a festival. Basically that means that there were fewer people,
everybody wore blazers, and the green room had more vegetables.
There was a p