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Dinner with Beth & Chris
May. 12th, 2009 04:19 pmWhat a nice little dinner party we had last night! Old publishing pal Beth Fleisher came over with husband Chris Claremont (and we only talked a little about Wolverine - not hard, as Delia & I haven't seen it yet). Delia made Avocado Soup from our beloved Paris in a Basket cookbook, and Roasted Sea Bass with Lemon & Fennel. (One of the lovely things about NYC is the corner fish market!) And the Wild Rice that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
1crowdedhour brought us from MN. What's more, we trotted out the bone-handled silver forks & knives from one of Delia's mother's collection of Edwardian fish sets, which we have been keeping under the cupboard because they were too pretty to get rid of (and no one seemed willing to buy) - it hadn't occurred to us we could simply use them when eating fish, which we do all the time! But friends had theirs out last week, and the penny drops. Nothing bones a whole striped bass like one'a them serving babies.
We being publishing people, business, of course, was discussed. I am preening, because I introduced Beth to agent Barry "bgliterary" Goldblatt . . . and now she's joined his Literary Agency! Beth was Emma Bull's editor at Berkeley for years, and a bunch of other peoples' I'm sure she'd be glad to tell you about her experience. I asked her what sort of clients she was looking for, and she made my day by saying she liked original, unclassifiable, daring stuff like the stories in Interfictions! -- but for middle-grade and YA. She loves historicals, fantasy, hard SF, and non-fiction. And also, because of her experience working with Chris, graphic novels. There's more about her up on BGLiterary's "About" page. Just sayin'.
1crowdedhour brought us from MN. What's more, we trotted out the bone-handled silver forks & knives from one of Delia's mother's collection of Edwardian fish sets, which we have been keeping under the cupboard because they were too pretty to get rid of (and no one seemed willing to buy) - it hadn't occurred to us we could simply use them when eating fish, which we do all the time! But friends had theirs out last week, and the penny drops. Nothing bones a whole striped bass like one'a them serving babies.We being publishing people, business, of course, was discussed. I am preening, because I introduced Beth to agent Barry "
bgliterary" Goldblatt . . . and now she's joined his Literary Agency! Beth was Emma Bull's editor at Berkeley for years, and a bunch of other peoples' I'm sure she'd be glad to tell you about her experience. I asked her what sort of clients she was looking for, and she made my day by saying she liked original, unclassifiable, daring stuff like the stories in Interfictions! -- but for middle-grade and YA. She loves historicals, fantasy, hard SF, and non-fiction. And also, because of her experience working with Chris, graphic novels. There's more about her up on BGLiterary's "About" page. Just sayin'.