Congratulations to both of you! A quater of a century is quite a milestone. All the best,
Colleen
Three dollar sci-fi novels? Where the hell does he shop? [And he sure ain't buying any of our books.]
Chump. Patrick, on behalf of all of us, I will go bitchslap him.
Well, Dubbya has managed to do one thing very well in first term as Prez: He's united the Democratic party. When we oust the inept bastard in November, we can think kindlier of him for that miracle.
Ah! So that's what it was. I was thinking I had somehow missed the onset of a particularly strange nuclear winter. Thanks for clearing that up.
[ANd yes, they are all over Astoria as well...]
Ya know,I've been savoring this wonderful thread and wishing in my little heart of hearts that someone would put all of Teresa's comments together together in a pamphlet for every would-be author on the planet.
Of course, then I'd be force to add the necessary section entitled "How To Not Make Booksellers Hate You [and Make You A Spine-Out Forever] Once You are Actually Published..."
:-)
I'd like to say it's better elsewhere, but it ain't. Every summer, I attend and work San Diego Comic Con and one other major SF or gaming convention. This year was GenCon in Indianapolis. We stayed in four-star hotels both cities. In neither hotel could I get reliable dial-up service, and because my work-issue laptop does not have an ethernet card (long story, has to do with firewalls and VPN and all kinds of crap I don't understand), I couldn't use the broadband connection provided in-room. My dial-up connection was usually dropped after 45 seconds. (I timed it.) It was pretty miserable.By the time I got back to New York, I had nearly seven hundred emails waiting for me.
The funny thing is that I have no problem with dial-up from residences when I visit friends around the U.S.
So what's that about? (Other than me having a crappy laptop.)
Hey, amen to this one. I refuse to be sad today.
I do have one memory of the days just after September 11th that makes me smile, though.
Kuo-Yu Liang was living down in the Bowery at the time and I had snuck in past all the National Guardsman and police to go meet him for a walk around downtown. We ended up walking around down by Ground Zero, and I was taking black & white photos of the people standing around watching the construction (or rather, the deconstruction) of the pile. There was one fellow, Nigerian I believe, who was the first to set up a little blanket selling big 11 x 17 color laminated Xeroxes of the towers. Many people were appalled by this, but I remember thinking "Hey, this is EXACTLY what New York was founded on; commerce and free trade." I snapped his picture and he gave me the biggest shit-eating grin, with his thumb up, holding a picture of the towers. I thought at the time that there really was no more fitting tribute.
Anyway, my two cents. Hope your day goes well. (And yes, some of the Del Reyvians read your blog!)
Cheers!
Colleen
Nearly snorted coffee out of my nose when I read that. I cannot tell you how many times I have had to correct that typo on the press releases written by assistants...too funny!
Colleen
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