Here I Am

[ellenkushner]

Light has finally dawned over Marble Head, as I realize that it is easier to post Cool New Things that have Drawn My Attention here in a bloggish sort of way than to try and keep putting them up on my website.

So I'll indulge myself with news of my creative & publishing activities (all the "To Come" stuff, anyway - the Official Appearances, existing performances etc. can all be found at

http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/

where they are meticulously updated), plus stray comments on music, film, books & trenchant sayings that I hope will be of interest to anyone who likes the rather sprawling and eclectic Ellenverse that includes the novel Swordspoint http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/swordspoint.html (check out the new page - complete with falling snow! - by Theo Black), the public radio show Sound & Spirit http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/, and so much in between.

I haven't spent much time on LiveJournal, so am not familiar with the Customs of the Country; but that's all right, I'm used to that, and I won't mind if you don't.

Comments

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

*waves excitedly*

You won't remember me, but I was the person whose husband tried to make an organization chart from the characters in The Fall of the Kings. Alas (or luckily, depending on your perspective), the chart was lost in the Great Office Excavation and so remains a mythical object to us all, except for my husband, who insists that it exists Somewhere.

Oh. Er. Sorry. I'm babbling again. Hi, she says brightly. Welcome to Livejournal.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Someday you will find that chart. Yes, you will. And when you do . . . . I won't say Angels will Rejoice, but, gee, it will be great fun for all of us to see!

Anyhow, my sympathies. I am currently trying to find the original longhand version of the menu for the Duchess Tremontaine's winter barge party so I can maybe post it on my website. I know it's somewhere . . . this is what comes of cleaning up one's office - or trying to. Everything disappears. The falcon cannot hear the falconer.....

P.S.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Delia, standing looking over my shoulder, says she remembers you - and the conversation - well.

"Keep looking!" she says.

Re: P.S.

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

She does? Oh dear. I'm simultaneously unnerved and delighted when people remember me.

Ah well, I shall persist in the search. Perhaps the chart migrated into the overstuffed office closet, which has not been cleaned out since.... since a while, let us say.

I do hope you find the original menu! Knowing the Duchess Tremontaine's character, I imagine it is a thing of beauty and elegance.