well, I'm back

[ellenkushner]

This morning's flight from Norfolk to Philadelphia was a breeze - wonderful looking at the shoreline up the coast! There are advantages to flying those cramped & tiny little planes - arriving in plenty of time for my tight connection to LaGuardia - but when I checked the boards, I saw that it was going to be 2+ hours late, and heard "final boarding call" for the previous LGA flight, which was running just a little late . . .I raced to the gate, but the door was closed & no one was there. But I could see the plane sitting there . . . . A worker came along, and in the spirit of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" (not to mention "You can always ask - all they can say is No!"), I asked if there was any way I could still get on it. I must have looked very woebegone, because she actually carded herself through the locked door and down the gangplank, and came back a minute later to say there was one seat left. I scurried on board, and took the last seat in the last row with extreme gratitude! (I had said I was a StandBy, which was not technically true, but I would have been if I had known! And they very very kindly let me on. See? It works!)

Golden Dreydl Catch of the Day:

Jeff VanderMeer did an interview with me for his Omnivoracious column, calling GD "a gem of a book," bless him!
and
Midori Snyder gave it a swell review on the ever-glorious Endicott site. If you want to buy a copy of the book (or 2 or 3), I'd urge you to buy it through Endicott, as a percentage of their sales go to support children's charities.

Comments

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

...and I mentioned it last week on Librarian Mom and bookbk-- I've been meaning to tell you. Plus, we heard the show on CBC the other day!

[(Anonymous)]

What about your baggage?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Aha! I was carrying a shoulder bag containing clothes for 24 hours plus my peacock puppet, book & script! Travel light, I say.