A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
Jackie fixed my favorite shot of ME as best she could! Thank you, Jackie. She also made thumbnails of the rest, taken by Josh Karpf. Thank you, Josh! I like this shot because I’m smiling. I’m finally relaxed and starting to enjoy myself.
Thank God Josh Karpf didn’t. I’m waiting for someone to color correct my favorite one of ME, but in the meantime, here’s a long view shot of my standing room only crowd!! I have to apologize to my friends. More people showed up than I expected. Also, I have to apologize everywhere about the wine. At the end of the event I saw a ton of bottles of un-drunk wine and I couldn’t figure out why no one drank. Then I realized people may not have spotted the two cases of wine waiting for them. I opened a few bottles and figured people could open the rest for themselves, but I don’t think they realized there were cases of wine sitting there behind the table waiting to be opened. I’m such an idiot!
And the day of my party! The day I picked. On purpose. (Note to self: huh??)
I just put up a new post on the Unbelievable blog. It’s a story we decided to cut from the book, and now I’m wondering why we did. It’s a good story!
But the book really was so long, and we needed to trim it. Something had to go. Well, all the editing gave me good stuff to post on the blog!
What is happening in the world? Because I don’t know, I’m so wrapped up in my new book.
Still feeling overwhelmed. I have so much to do, I’m ridiculously behind in my email, and I’m going to be in Durham next week. I have two projects I’m working on that are important to me, an NPR piece and a magazine article. Oh god. I’m freaking myself out again.
I took that picture on the way to the library. I love the library. I wish I could work there.
I see NYC is throwing me a party to welcome me back! Actually, I saw these in the subway yesterday on my way to the train to Boston.
I think I may have lost my fear of public speaking. I was nervous, but only nervous about doing a good job, not nervous about being up there. Also great was the fact that there there was a full room of people at my reading! That doesn’t always happen. They were all very nice, they asked good questions, I learned about some ESP research going on at Harvard, which I was totally unaware of, so that was good. Thank you for inviting me to Brookline Booksmith, Genie!
I’m glad about getting back to my cats though. My neighbors are taking care of them (thank you Malik and Beth!!) but apparently they are not so good with people when I’m not in the room. Poor little guys.
I’m trying to decide if what I have with me is too heavy to carry around. I was thinking of checking out early, in order to run around Cambridge a little (where I used to live) before heading to the train station.
I’m getting on a train in a little while and I just wanted to say to all the people who have emailed me, if you’re reading this, I’m going to answer your email, but it’s going to take a few days. At least! I’m not sure what my internet access will be for the two days for instance. But I’m not ignoring you. And I appreciate your email. There’s something very exposed about putting a book out there. You put your heart and everything you’ve got into it and then you sit back and wait. Your book is out there, laid bare. I can’t tell you how that feels. And the fact of the matter is, some people are going to stomp on your poor frail heart … okay, book. Maybe you didn’t do a great job this time and that’s the deal. People are going to point that out. It comes with the territory. So I love your email. It makes me feel better.
Oh, the life of a wuss. It’s not easy people!!
And my book is on the shelves!!
