Road Trip Recap
Sep. 13th, 2009 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanAlthough the turnout was light for the first-ever NJ Writers Conference, the energy and enthusiasm was high, and people really got into the "Blending Genres" workshop, although I may never get the image of a vampire Nazi tooth fairy out of my mind. *shudder* Signed/sold a bunch of books, and did a reading from FLESH AND FIRE that had people coming up to get info on the release date, so yay!
[October 13th, in case y'all haven't been paying attention)
Then Gary and I fled the premises and made our merry way to Atlantic City proper, where I had atypical bad luck -- but was seated next to very cute boys in suits, so the view made up for the cards -- followed by a stroll on the boardwalk,and thence -- at 1am -- to Denny's where I had serious flashbacks to several episodes of my misspent youth. It was, however, a surprisingly clean, well-lit, friendly and people-staffed (as opposed to zombies) Denny's, with nary a Garth Brooks fan in sight (in-joke for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
otterdance)
This morning I grabbed breakfast and headed out for the Road Trip portion of the weekend -- wending my slow, very relaxed way back north via back roads filled with flea markets, antique fairs, and oceanfront zen, wherein I spent a few hours spent reclaiming a part of my past.
My zen, let me show you it.
And now the mind is clear, the well refilled, and I'm looking forward to a rather, erm, busy week, including having a story shredded by the crit group, doing a video interview @ S&S, and various social whirls....
EtA: cats don't know I'm going away next weekend, too. Slowly getting them ready for the Big Leave...
[October 13th, in case y'all haven't been paying attention)
Then Gary and I fled the premises and made our merry way to Atlantic City proper, where I had atypical bad luck -- but was seated next to very cute boys in suits, so the view made up for the cards -- followed by a stroll on the boardwalk,and thence -- at 1am -- to Denny's where I had serious flashbacks to several episodes of my misspent youth. It was, however, a surprisingly clean, well-lit, friendly and people-staffed (as opposed to zombies) Denny's, with nary a Garth Brooks fan in sight (in-joke for
otterdance)This morning I grabbed breakfast and headed out for the Road Trip portion of the weekend -- wending my slow, very relaxed way back north via back roads filled with flea markets, antique fairs, and oceanfront zen, wherein I spent a few hours spent reclaiming a part of my past.
My zen, let me show you it.
And now the mind is clear, the well refilled, and I'm looking forward to a rather, erm, busy week, including having a story shredded by the crit group, doing a video interview @ S&S, and various social whirls....
EtA: cats don't know I'm going away next weekend, too. Slowly getting them ready for the Big Leave...
