"It's like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can't read just yet."

[greygirlbeast]

A very good turn out last night at Pandemonium Books in Boston, and many books were sold and signed, and I read Chapter One of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir aloud (all of it), and I talked long into the night (well, well after nine p.m., I think) about making the book trailer, fictional autobiography, cover art (both exquisite and wretched),

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My copy of the next collection was ordered well-advance. I look forward to it.

Since I am not terribly far from Massachusetts, I hope to go to Readercon this year, but we'll see. Opening a new business, trying to hustle the new business in French, that takes time and money, but still, it's so very driveable.

I finished The Drowning Girl the other day (and immediately started on a beautiful Folio Society edition of LeFanu's Through A Glass Darkly afterwards), and it really is a stunning book. Definitely the kind of book that merit an immediate re-read, in order to sift through the language and rhythm of it again. So yeah, I loved it.

[greygirlbeast]

Since I am not terribly far from Massachusetts, I hope to go to Readercon this year, but we'll see. Opening a new business, trying to hustle the new business in French, that takes time and money, but still, it's so very driveable.

Well, I do hope to see you there.

So yeah, I loved it.

Then I've done my job.

[farklebarkle]

Oh, the Garment District is amazing. (Dangerous -- every time I go there, I find something.)

Sorry I missed the reading. Looking forward to Readercon, though.

[greygirlbeast]

(Dangerous -- every time I go there, I find something.)

Very dangerous.

[xarx]

I guess that explains why I will not be seeing you out in New Mexico either.

Also out of curiosity, did you pick anything up at the Garment District?

[greygirlbeast]

I guess that explains why I will not be seeing you out in New Mexico either.

Alas, it does. That would likely cost me a thousand, easily.

Also out of curiosity, did you pick anything up at the Garment District?

Two sweaters and a shawl, for about the price of one rather cheaply priced NEW sweater.

[ashlyme]

I'm glad you had a good night!

The Drowning Girl is your finest work. I just wondered if Maxilla and Mandible is a real place?

[greygirlbeast]

Oh, yes. Maxilla and Mandible IS a real place. A place I adore. You can goggle them. Or, well, here's the link. I was a regular customer, and spent far too much money there, back in the '90s, when I had far more "disposable" income.

Did I mention Maxilla and Mandible in The Drowning Girl?

[ashlyme]

Yeah, it's one of Dr Ogilvy's favourite places. I suspect I'd adore it, too.

[greygirlbeast]

Ahhhhhhh. Duh.