Hello all. This is to remind you that we will be giving a short talk, answering questions, signing books, and kissing babies at Washington’s finest independent bookstore this coming Saturday afternoon at 3:30 (That’s April 20).

We’ll be giving the talk we delivered at the ICON conference last spring—The Virtues of Creative Impatience. Geared toward creative professionals of any stripe, but hopefully interesting and helpful to anyone who’s looking to cultivate creativity, the talk focuses on the virtues of subscription-based art distribution, the power of selfless self-promotion, the advantages of collaboration, the pleasures of artistic freedom, the importance of saying yes, and the unquestionable merits of doggedness. Also included are musings on luck (what it is, whether it can be made, and how to go about getting more of it) and impatience (how it might not be as useless as we are often told).

Also, if things go according to plan, it’s pretty funny. At least, it has been in the past.

We would love to see you there. Bring your friends. Bring your mom. And Snickers bars. Robbi loves Snickers.