MAINE, MAINE, HOW I LOVE YOU!
Jul. 17th, 2009 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerAfter a rather frantic couple of weeks - Delia's birthday on June 22, launch of her book on June 25 w/2 NYC events, then pack up the luggage, la la la for a trip that included Boston, Readercon, Chicago's ALA (for her), Damariscotta, MA (for me), the IAF Maine Salon (Brunswick, ME, where we reunited as Laurie J. Marks kindly drove Delia up from Logan) . . . . we are finally at the Big House Overlooking the Water in a tiny town between Blue Hill & Deer Isle, again. I think I posted a picture last year in August. The house of heart's content, owned by generous friends who let us come up here by ourselves & write. No internet, so we have to drive to whatever town has a public library. Right now we're in Stonington, where the fog over the harbor has finally cleared enough to see the trees and the rocks and the little boats . . . .
Readercon was great! (I'm still shook up about Charlie Brown - on Friday I was sitting in the Green Room giving him the details on the new Bordertown book, as he took notes - to learn on Monday that he'd died on the trip home was a real shock. I will write up a reminiscence when I can.) The Interstitial Salon was great, too! (Met several young writers who said they loved my books but had always been too shy to approach me. My default is always that nobody knows me or my work - either the writing or the public radio show. That way, I'm always pleasantly surprised. Never be too shy to surprise me, people!) At both events, saw old friends & met lovely new ones. At R'con finally got to read the entire ms. of new short story, "Dulce Domum," aloud (I got about 3/4 through at Wiscon), and love the way it sounds. Hope it works as nicely on the page when it comes out in Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse Three (Night Shade Books, October 2009)!
But now I will be very quiet. I will look at the trees, and the water, and the fireflies at night. I will put words on paper, and make them dance. A jig? A gavotte? We'll see.....
Readercon was great! (I'm still shook up about Charlie Brown - on Friday I was sitting in the Green Room giving him the details on the new Bordertown book, as he took notes - to learn on Monday that he'd died on the trip home was a real shock. I will write up a reminiscence when I can.) The Interstitial Salon was great, too! (Met several young writers who said they loved my books but had always been too shy to approach me. My default is always that nobody knows me or my work - either the writing or the public radio show. That way, I'm always pleasantly surprised. Never be too shy to surprise me, people!) At both events, saw old friends & met lovely new ones. At R'con finally got to read the entire ms. of new short story, "Dulce Domum," aloud (I got about 3/4 through at Wiscon), and love the way it sounds. Hope it works as nicely on the page when it comes out in Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse Three (Night Shade Books, October 2009)!
But now I will be very quiet. I will look at the trees, and the water, and the fireflies at night. I will put words on paper, and make them dance. A jig? A gavotte? We'll see.....
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*waves from much closer than usual
Date: 2009-07-18 03:48 am (UTC)I wandered past Fisherman's Friend yesterday :-) And may actually make it in on Monday (all the other days between now and when I head home to MN on Wednesday are taken with lovely things.)
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Date: 2009-08-18 08:13 pm (UTC)Are you going to Jakarta? I have a good friend there, journalist Trish Anderton:
http://www.kopisusu2.blogspot.com/
Feel free to contact her & tell her I sent you.