This post is nothing but shameless self-promotion

But look! Wasn't I an adorable cowgirl?

(I was hoping to soften the blow by including an adorable photo of me as a little girl.)

(No? Well, I tried.)

This is Banned Books Week, and to mark the occasion, I am speaking about banned books:

• At 7 p.m. Tuesday (tomorrow) at Ivoryton Library, 106 Main St., Ivoryton, Conn. Admission is free, but please register (we have limited seating) here.

• On a panel at the CT Lit Fest, at 1 p.m. Oct. 14 at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., in Hartford. The festival, which features people like best-selling author and all-around nice guy Wally Lamb (love him and love him a lot) and West Haven’s own Connecticut poet laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell, starts at 10 a.m. Admission is free.

On another topic entirely:

• 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, I’m exploring WWJD (What Would Jesus Do, for those of you who have avoided seeing the omnipresent bracelets) at Flagg Road UCC, 134 Flagg Road in West Hartford, Conn. This, too, is a free event.

One day, perhaps I will speak and you will have to pay to come listen. Tickets will be $5,000 apiece and I shall only have to sell three to pay off my fireplace insert and my Subaru.

I’m kidding. Back when I was working at America’s Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper, I gave a lot of speeches/sermons/diatribes and though I lecture no less than five times a day at my day job, in preparation for these next few days I wonder if I’m a little rusty. We shall see.

Come! Heckle! But know that if you heckle — even if it’s in church — I know all The Words.