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We're back, though you probably didn't know we were gone. Sorry for the radio silence for the last week, but Denise and I were in the New York City area visiting Sheila, my editor at DAW Books, visiting the DAW offices, playing tourist, and generally having a fantastic time (largely due to the incredible people at DAW -- have I mentioned how spectacular the DAW folk are? Well, they are! Josh, Briar, Katie, and Sasha the intern were all a delight to finally meet in person -- and of course Sheila, Betsy, and Peter were as wonderful as ever.)
We saw The Book of Mormon -- which is hysterical (unless, perhaps, you're Mormon) -- ate far too much rich food at some excellent restaurants (check out Da Umberto's if you're in the city!), did a publicity video for DAW (and managed to break one of their cameras in the process), walked around lower Manhattan, saw the 9/11 Memorial (very moving and beautiful, even while still under some construction), looked out from Battery Park at Ellis and Liberty Islands, spent not enough time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the New American Wing kept making me gasp at the paintings I remembered from Art History classes, and has on display perhaps my favorite John Singer Sargent painting, Madame X), spent a few hours with some of Denise's cousins in the area, as well as her aunt, tried unsuccessfully to entice Winter, one of Sheila's cats, to let me pet him, and in general exhausted ourselves.
In a good way, of course.
On the way back, we listened to all the CDs Peter Stampfel gave us -- the liner notes had Denise chuckling frequently -- survived a snowstorm along I-80 in central Pennsylvania, and endured an hour's worth of construction delay in central Ohio on I-71.
But we're back, and now we can tell the internet that we were gone…. Honestly, the trip deserves a fuller report, but hey, I'm tired and this is what you're getting, so you'll just have to deal with it.
OH -- and there's the writing news: ASSASSINS' DAWN, the omnibus edition of my first three novels, will be out on May (yeah, I know, I already told you that…) and Josh at DAW sent me the cover, which I'll attach here below, though it's still missing the Garth Nix quote it'll be sporting.
And I now have a publication date for DAEMON HEART -- which will see the light of bookstores in March of 2014. Yay! That's one's been a long time coming, but I hope you'll find it worth the wait. I'm very pleased with the book.
And for now, I'll be very pleased to take it easy for the rest of the evening...
ETA: The artist for the ASSASSINS' DAWN cover is Paul Youll.
We saw The Book of Mormon -- which is hysterical (unless, perhaps, you're Mormon) -- ate far too much rich food at some excellent restaurants (check out Da Umberto's if you're in the city!), did a publicity video for DAW (and managed to break one of their cameras in the process), walked around lower Manhattan, saw the 9/11 Memorial (very moving and beautiful, even while still under some construction), looked out from Battery Park at Ellis and Liberty Islands, spent not enough time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the New American Wing kept making me gasp at the paintings I remembered from Art History classes, and has on display perhaps my favorite John Singer Sargent painting, Madame X), spent a few hours with some of Denise's cousins in the area, as well as her aunt, tried unsuccessfully to entice Winter, one of Sheila's cats, to let me pet him, and in general exhausted ourselves.
In a good way, of course.
On the way back, we listened to all the CDs Peter Stampfel gave us -- the liner notes had Denise chuckling frequently -- survived a snowstorm along I-80 in central Pennsylvania, and endured an hour's worth of construction delay in central Ohio on I-71.
But we're back, and now we can tell the internet that we were gone…. Honestly, the trip deserves a fuller report, but hey, I'm tired and this is what you're getting, so you'll just have to deal with it.
OH -- and there's the writing news: ASSASSINS' DAWN, the omnibus edition of my first three novels, will be out on May (yeah, I know, I already told you that…) and Josh at DAW sent me the cover, which I'll attach here below, though it's still missing the Garth Nix quote it'll be sporting.
And I now have a publication date for DAEMON HEART -- which will see the light of bookstores in March of 2014. Yay! That's one's been a long time coming, but I hope you'll find it worth the wait. I'm very pleased with the book.
And for now, I'll be very pleased to take it easy for the rest of the evening...
ETA: The artist for the ASSASSINS' DAWN cover is Paul Youll.