Happy New Year to all, and I hope everyone had fun over the holidays. I realize I'm a bit late with my wishes, but I contracted some sort of holiday plague while visiting my family, which was then made worse by my plane flights back west, and so only now have I felt cheery enough to extend well wishes. Or, you know, not cough and hack all over my ( Read more... )

I am home from WorldCon. (Well, I've been home every night, just not energetic enough to write about it.) I had a fabulous time, right up until I blew out a tire on the 101 this afternoon and ended up sitting and sweating to death for half an hour on a corner just northwest of Alvarado and Beverly while I waited for the auto club to come help me ( Read more... )

I have so many things to post that I've given up trying to be orderly and chronological, and instead go backwards and cover the recent things first ( Read more... )

Or not for the road, actually. I'm in town for the next two+ weeks before I need to travel again, so lots of time to play catch up from my slow pace of the previous week.

Many thanks to everyone who posted or e-mailed me to wish me a speedy recovery. It wasn't so much that I was sick the whole time, really, as that I was worn out from being really ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't check the agency blog regularly, you might want to pop over and read today's entry. Julie Ramsey, our marketing guru, is in Park City, Utah, for a few days, schmoozing with celebs at the Sundance Festival. She's blogging from Salt Lake between standing in lines and trying to catch a glimpse of Robin Williams. Oh, and of ( Read more... )

I'm set up in the office in Georgia, sharing Deidre's office. It's been a very long time since I actually worked in an office setting with other people, and I have to say it's rather pleasant. I love my little LA office world, but at the same time it's nice to just be able to ask a question without email or phones or anything ( Read more... )

I'm off to Georgia tomorrow night, and will be in the main office with Deidre and the gang until Thursday. This is our now-annual kick off to the new year, giving us a bit of face time, strategizing time, etc. It's also going to be my first opportunity to meet all of the rest of the new staff that joined the agency this year -- Samantha, who ( Read more... )