Let me read you a story

[ellenkushner]

John Scalzi wrote it. It's a novelette, The Sagan Diary, ". . .the thoughts of Jane Sagan, as she looks over her life after the events of The Ghost Brigades."

We had quite a time making the recording on my primitive equipment - but in future, all will be well. We have Taken Steps. Freddie Mac has created a home studio in our diningroom : 1909, I'd like to introduce you to 2007. Enchantée.

(Need more Scalzi? Try the interview we did in August.)

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I just bought that at Boskone this weekend! :) It's the next thing on my to-read pile. :)

[ckd]

Same here.

I'm very glad I bought it on Friday, because when I went back to the huckster's room on Saturday they were all gone.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I was so sorry to miss Boskone this year! Sounds like everyone had a great time.

[ckd]

Pretty much. There were some new location teething pains, mostly dealing with food options (the hotel, instead of being attached to two malls, two other hotels, and a convention center, is attached to just a convention center) but it was still a very good con IMO.

I hope you can make it next year; until then, is next Readercon likely?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Definintely Readercon, unlesss we're invited to a Spanish convention which meets the same weekend - still trying to find out that one...

[alethea-eastrid.livejournal.com]

hiss, snarl, grooowl.

I'm getting married that day! Enough of our repective families are non-fen that ditching pre-wedding and post-wedding socialization for the con may be impractical.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Getting married is good. It's fun. It's a once in a lifetime event. Readercon is every year. Skipping it is like skipping dessert - you enjoy it all the more the next time!

Congratulations.

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Lovely dining room--what are the statuettes on the mantle piece?

By the way, you are such an enabler of my reading habit :-) I just placed a hold on POTS at my local library and now I am doing the same for Ghost Brigades. (Sorry for not buying, but I am unemployed these days...)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Hmm...We have so much Stuff lining every available surface, it's hard to know! If you're looking at the solo photo of me, then the objects are (from L to R) a ceramic fairy Delia bought in Provincetown 20 yrs ago; a small Japanese(?) wooden vase; my Gabriel Award for one of my radio shows; the Sabbath candlesticks my Aunt Hope gave us for our wedding 10 years ago; umm...another radio award? a bud vase? a ceramic oil-lamp menorah we can't get to light; Delia's mother's crystal decanter, and a green glass vase hand-blown by Henry Jenkins' wife Cynthia, who gave it to me when I admired it extravagently last year. Quite a spectrum - and, I assure you, just the tip of the iceberg.

I am delighted that you're getting stuff from the library! Libraries rule!

[nanne.livejournal.com]

There's a life's story just on that mantle piece.

The Jones Library in Amherst is nothing short of amazing. And it is free too. Best. Library. Ever.