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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