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

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You have a livejournal! That's great! I have a livejournal too!

Um, this is Rachel Manija Brown, from World Fantasy a couple years ago. The small woman with dark hair who used to write for TV (only I recently sold my first book and don't any more.)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

What I meant to say was, welcome!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Rachel - good god, I have your card floating around my desk (so I must have really enjoyed meeting you), but could not remember who you were (this is very normal for me) - thank you for reappearing! And congrats on your first book - yaay!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Delia tried on my black leather jacket at World Fantasy Montreal after you read a bit from The Fall of the Kings. Or maybe I tried on hers. Anyway, we had the same jacket size, although she's taller. I spent quite a bit of that con hanging out with China Mieville, who was also wearing black leather, although it looks quite different on him than it does on Delia or me.

If you click on my name, my latest journal entry coincidentally has a link to photos of myself wearing that same jacket (If it was mine and not Delia's.)

Thanks for the congratulations. It's a memoir about how I grew up on a bizarre ashram in India, and it's coming out from Rodale in September. Everyone says it reminds them of Running With Scissors.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Well, Delia did end up buying a black leather jacket in Montreal - maybe it was your benign influence.

The book sounds fantastic - can't wait to see it.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, I'm not anonymous at all--I'm Delia, whose leather jacket you're not wearing in those pix (great pix, btw), although I went out and bought one maybe the next day.

Loved your birthday cake.