Life doesn't suck

Had our writers' group tonight, wherein I was very tired, lay on the floor and made rude commentary to other peoples' critiques (after doing my own crits, naturally). We are a tolerant bunch, thankfully, and aware of the signs of Stress Oncoming and Arriving, so after the meeting L and L2 and I went to our favorite midtown watering hole (the Russian Vodka Room) and sat in the corner and consumed infused vodkas and dessert blintzes, and dissed them as deserved it and generally got giggly. And, for once while sitting there, we didn't get hit on. Which was nice.

And then I walked twenty blocks to the PATH station, in the rain, through the post-theater crowds of Times Square.

Did you know that Times Square at night, in a cold autumn rain, is one of the most wonderfully cheering and enlivening places in the world? By the time I got to 34th street, I was so zen it was astonishing.

And no, I don't think the vodka had much to do with it. Well, not all that much, anyway...


I love Manhattan, perhaps all the more for choosing not to live there. The slight across-the-river distance allows me to go away and come back, and see it like new all over again.

Not that my home state doesn't have its own rejuvinating beauty. But we don't like to talk about it. Too damn many New Yorkers already moving in... *grin*

if you want something done, you'd best do it your own damn self...

Lord knows, the web people at Penguin have their hands full. I'm sure of this, although I've never actually seen any benefit from what they're doing -- it's all bestsellers and Imprints with Clout. They're far too busy to make it easy to find a genre imprint. Or even update it on time.

So I've taken matters into my own hands. It's small, it's simple, but it works. I hope. And acknowledging that it's still in the building phases.

But I'm still proud of it.

http://www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman/Roc_Books.htm

Feedback not only welcome but requested. And hey, if anyone comes up with a really good idea or feedback, I can reward them with bookses.... *grin*