Well, it's Banned Books Week again, and I'm gettin' screwed. I mean, you write a book with lesbian moms, a book in which a 14-year-old girl proclaims God to be a "sick evil fuck", and you don't even show up on the ALA most challenged book list. What the hell! Surely there must be some troglodytes enraged by the very idea of Donorboy. Right? Right? It encourages shoplifting in the young! It shows lesbian moms to be normal parents! Geez, they practically cancelled Postcards from Buster because he dared to show that lesbian moms exist, but can I get so much as a threat to get my book pulled from the library shelves? I mean, members of my own extended family forbade my 13-year-old cousin from reading Donorboy because of the aforementioned God line (because nobody's quite so reverent as a 13-year-old South Park fan), and I can't even get challenged, let alone banned!
This book is dangerous! Dangerous, I tellya! Where's the outrage?
God, these controversies get you so much free publicity. I couldn't get Long Way Back condemned by the Catholic Church, I can't get Donorboy banned, and there's very little to object to in How Ya Like Me Now, though I suppose the idea that 15-year-old boys are perpetually horny figures in there, but I can't imagine that's a controversial idea.
Dear Catastrophe Waitress does have a sex scene, but its between consenting adults. (Not that the religious right doesn't object to that as well, but I hardly think my book is the placed concerned citizens for family values will start on that particular issue.) Oh, won't somebody be outraged by my work and take your outrage to the local paper, or better yet TV station?
