And on the Seventh Day, no Rest but a great deal of excitement
Is it so very very wrong to just paste this in here from Facebook?
SUNDAY REPORT:
Got up, masterminded galactic takeover (unsuccessfully), ate lunch. Went downtown to studio, got to direct Neil Gaiman recording his introduction to THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook for Neil Gaiman Presents/ Audiobook Creation Exchange: ACX.com (blasto from the pasto! I directed his first-ever audioobook, the short story collection), then sat politely with Delia Sherman while SueMedia directed him reading his lines for the major cool Cameo role he's got in the book (no, I'm not telling! But when he asked for character direction, we said, "Merlin. But sexy." And boy, did he deliver the goods! Authorial shivers all 'round.) Then went and got food with our Audible liaison, the godlike Christina A. Harcar, who knows where is all the best sushi - then ran to catch a cab to make it in time to my reading at Nuyorican Poets Cafe - thrill! - for the Bi-Lines event/awards ceremony. . . where my dear Steve Berman won a Publisher award for Lethe Press, and the anthology I'm in, BEYOND BINARY, won for SF/F (congrats to editor Brit Mandelo!!!). Met many fine people there. When it was over, popped round the corner to see my nephew Stuart Kushner, who is in town visiting his brother who lives just off Ave. A (which as I have told them in MY day was a BAAAAD neighb!! without even any Lawn to Get Off Of....), and planned Family Activities for the week, and recommended they watch "A Fish Called Wanda" on Netflix. Finally figured out the crosstown bus wasn't running, found the 14A, and made it to my home subway stop just as the heavens opened. Waited for rain to diminish along with many other fine people, finally gave up & got wet, opened door, handed Delia my dripping pants & went online immediately to complain about being too tired to write a nice post. And then to bed.