Neil Gaiman’s blog has been the location of a debate about the usage of the words “me” and “you”. Today, he had the “last word.”

Dear Neil,

I know I come late to the “me and you and me” party (having spent all of yesterday at the National Book Festival, which was a whole lot of dusty fun!), but I thought you might be interested to know what my mother, an American Advanced Placement English teacher at a very good public high school, has to say.

According to my mother, “and Suzanna Clarke” is a participial phrase modifying “me,” and, for your intended purpose, works just fine. Because you are notifying people who want to hear YOU, chatting with Suzanna, know where they can do so, your construction of the sentence is more clear. Technically, it IS considered more correct to say, “so and so and I…” but it is a matter of personal preference, and, for the purposes of your sentence, your phrasing is more direct and to the point.

So that’s the 2 cents of an American English teacher with over 20 years experience and a more-than-usual insistence on proper grammar.
Cheers!
Emily

Granted, I don’t make a living using words, but don’t participial phrases have to have, oh, participles in them? Shouldn’t someone teaching Advanced English know that?