The time has come to make official proclamations, announcements, and disclaimers regarding the Paranormal Bender Tour, which gets underway tomorrow. I’d like to say it begins tomorrow, but in fact only the level-grinding begins tomorrow — which is to say, come morning I’ll be hitting the road with Mario Acevedo, Mark Henry, and Caitlin Kittredge. After a brief California stop-over, we’ll be heading to our first event in Las Vegas, at the Clark County Library (in the Jewel Box Theater).

In fact, here. Let me list out the entirety of our itinerary.
It goes as follows.

Clark County Library, Jewel Box Theater
Las Vegas, NV
March 11, 2009. 7 PM
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Mysterious Galaxy
San Diego, CA
March 13, 2009. 7 PM
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Dark Delicacies
Burbank, CA
March 14, 2009. 2 PM
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Borderlands Books
San Francisco, CA
March 15, 2009. 7 PM
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Powell’s Books
Beaverton, OR
March 16, 2009. 7 PM
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University of Washington Bookstore
U-district, Seattle, WA
March 17, 2009 (Time uncertain; will update later)

So if you and/or any of your friends happen to find yourselves in any given one of these locales, we’d love to see you. Please, come on down! We love and encourage readers, book-buyers, or general curiosity-seekers of all stripes. And now, a few formalities before I log off and call it a night.

1. I do not know how often we will have internet access, if at all. I make no promises about email responses, comment replies, or other kinds of online wackiness while we’re out of town.

2. This will not prevent me from posting our progress, adventures, problems, thrills, and observations to the internet. Heavens no. But I cannot swear that I will have access to my main website, CheriePriest.com (again, it will depend on our internet access).

3. Therefore, please allow me to direct you to a couple of other sites. This is my Twitter page. Only just recently, I have achieved the ability to post mini-updates from my phone, which previously refused to configure. And this is my LiveJournal, through which I have the capacity to make voice posts, also from my cell phone.

I’m sure that someone, somewhere, has an app that would let me make voice posts to my personal/quasi-professional page; but I don’t have such an app right in front of me, enabled at this time. So if you want to hear the melodious sound of my voice, you’ll have to click over to LiveJournal to give me a listen.* Likewise, I’m sure there’s some brilliant way I could post to my main webpage via cell phone, but let the record reflect — I have a Razr, and its stupid little keys are not so much text-friendly. It’s just as well I’m sticking to Twitter for the micro-updates.**

So. There you go. That’s how you can find me for the next week, both in real life and online, and I beg your indulgence if you send me any email and I’m a slouch about responding. I will be off adventuring!

Yes, adventuring. It is my personal goal that — decades from now, should some struggling grad student opt to write my biography — the Paranormal Bender Tour will warrant its own chapter. And I want it to be the most ROCKIN chapter in the book.

Thanks for reading, everyone. Stick with me. There’s more to come, and it’s probably going to be pretty awesome. I’m just sayin’.

:-)

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* I have my LJ set so that only recognized “friends” can transcribe my voice posts. I’ve had … shall we say … “problems” in the past, with people just writing whatever they felt like on the transcription, posting personal rants and links and such. Bad form, folks. Bad form.
** Speaking of which, I can’t promise you real-time posting. My connection to Twitter’s phone post option works so poorly that at first, I didn’t think it worked at all. I only noticed that my test-tweet finally appeared about 12 hours after the fact. I’m not saying that it took 12 hours to post; I’m just saying that I waited, refreshed, and swore for so long that I gave up on it posting, and therefore didn’t realize my success until later.