Date: 2008-05-07 00:32 Subject: NYRSF reading Security: Public Tags: new york

Well, that was gratifying!  What a big crowd!  and what illustrious attendees too!  I saw 

sdn,  Kushner & Sherman (fabulous to see them after so long!), Kelly Link (who read before me that wonderful creepy story about the evil stepbrother who gets the tables turned on him by an evil baby stepsister) and Gavin Grant, and my beloved editor Betsy Mitchell, to name only a few.  I was introduced to many wonderful people who actually read my first book, OMG!   Then we hit an Irish pub, where I did not drink any whisky.  Damn.  But I had a burger with everything.

 

New York is...New York.  For the first time since I came out here on the train from New Haven, twenty-six years or so give-or-take, I felt comfortable in the city, never got scary-lost, used the subway a lot, didn't eat much (behaving myself), had fun and also felt that unlimited additional fun was just around the corner.  Which is no doubt true.

Now it's beddy-bye.  Gosh I'm whipped. 

PS, pix from this trip coming soon, when I get home.

PPS I met some fun people at Del Rey / Ballantine / Random House and stuffed them with chocolate  (got pix).  Ditto at my agent's office.  If you ever write a  book and get a chance to go to NY and lunch with your agent & editor, I recommend the experience.  Be the belle of the ball for a day.  It rocks.

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Date: 2008-05-07 09:52 Subject: Back home tired Security: Public Tags: travel

So I'm decompressing and sorting through 215 emails and listening to  my cats complain about how long I was away and trying to cohere.

I find I have omitted to mention meeting Henry Wessells and Stacey Witcraft at South Street Seaport.

You can buy thugwear with maximum bling in the vicinity of 21st and B'way.

My feet still hurt (small surprise).

I got the same limo driver home from O'Hare as took me to O'Hare a week ago.  He is writing a very raunchy "street lit" novel and actually had pages to show me when he picked me up.    Nice to know he is so inspired.  I was butt lucky to get him, and doubly lucky to land, as it was raining c.&d. by the time my luggage made it off the carousel.

I missed bacon.  I missed my cats.  I missed my husband.   In reverse order, I think.

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Date: 2008-05-07 09:58 Subject: new interviews up Security: Public Tags: interviews

TWO new interviews are up online today!  The first is at http://www.technoccult.com/   --search down the page for my name-- Tiamat's Vision & I got silly over absinthe and then we discussed many learned topics.  Thanks be to Wes and Klint for making this possible!

The second is with Jim Freund at WBAI's "Hour of the Wolf" show in New York.  This was a live radio interview, which was a bit terrifying at first, but I got comfortable.  I don't think I invoked any of the Carlin Seven.  Jim loves all the right  music, and I was specially thrilled that he knew Kim Hughes' CDs Lintie and Cattywampus.

Jim also hosts the NYRSF readings at South Street Seaport's Melville Gallery, and then he takes his authors out to dinner at an Irish pub--it doesn't get any better than this!  See more about this appearance on a recent but separate rock.

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