(this is not me. this is Flannery O’Connor as a little child – and even as a little child, she was way cooler than I could ever be.)
I’m giving a reading tonight (Tuesday! May 21!) at 6:30. I’ll read a little from JACK, a little from VIOLET, and a little from the new book, THE WITCH’S BOY. I also will be answering questions and going off on tangents and engaging in total non sequiturs and maybe cracking jokes. It’ll be awesome. There will be books for sale, AND a drawing for my last two ARCs of Iron Hearted Violet.
And we may even talk a little about some butt-kicking princesses in history.
Like this one:
(princess Alice of the UK. Feminist. Philosopher. Ran the field hospitals during the Franco-Prussian war. And generally rules.)
Or maybe this one:
(Joanna of Flanders. Part princess. Part Freedom Fighter.)
And it’ll be fun.
AND YOU SHOULD TOTALLY COME!
Kelly Barnhill 
Even at that age, Flannery O’Connor was a tough reader. She looks like she’s thinking, “Who wrote this dreck?”
Indeed. She was a tough cookie, that Flannery.
Awesome graphics. Wish I could make the five hour drive to enjoy this. If I left now, I’d be too late.
I’ll have to try to get the Madison Library to invite you.
I would go to Madison in a heartbeat! Love that town.