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It was pretty.
Posted by Justine at 0:41, December 30th, 2007 under New York City/USA, Travelling |
I was asked today why I say sorry so much. ((not for the first time))
It's true. I do say it a lot. I say "Sorry!" even if I am not even slightly at fault: like when, say, someone has bumped into me, or spilled something over me. I say sorry for pretty much everything. Even when I'm not at all sorry. Mostly when I'm not at all sorry.
As to the why of all those sorrys. I used to think it was just me. That I have this weird sorry-saying nervous tic. But I now know it's cultural. I say sorry all the time because I am an Australian girl.
I realised this when I was living in Spain ...
Posted by Justine at 12:15, November 5th, 2007 under State of the World, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 12:52, October 20th, 2007 under Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Scott's books, Travelling |
Photo taken by Scott from the window of our plane in Chicago
Posted by Justine at 19:37, October 16th, 2007 under Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 20:25, October 13th, 2007 under Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, Food, New York City/USA, Toilets, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 13:26, October 12th, 2007 under Ranting, Reading, Travelling, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 15:10, October 11th, 2007 under Bloggery, Fashion, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling |
Day 11 of the tour:
Tonight's appearance at Books Inc (Opera Plaza) was fabulous. Lots of rabid, smart, enthusiastic Scott fans and passionate arguments about David/Zane. For the record I like Zane better than David but prefer Shay to either one of them.
The most wonderful part of the evening for me was meeting London, who's a guy from Sacramento, who drove all the way to San Francisco (which is at least two hours!) to tell me how much he loves my books. Isn't that awesome? Also turns out he's a Sacramento Monarchs fan and has even met their big star Yolanda Griffiths. I was deeply impressed and we got to talk women's hoops which always makes me happy.
Equally happy making ...
Posted by Justine at 2:49, October 10th, 2007 under Basketball, Fan art, Fans & readers, Scott's books, Travelling |
One of the fabulous things about this tour is seeing how popular so many of my friends are.
At a book shop on the outskirts of Chicago I saw this:
I pointed it out to Scott. "Look! Someone here loves Cassie's book. And they have a tonne of copies!" (There were more in piles above and below this book shelf.)
The bookseller who wrote that shelf talker overheard me:
"You know Cassie Clare?! Oh. My. God. I LOVED that book so much!!! She is a genius! I have loved her ever since I read her Secret Diaries!"
At a school in Walnut Creek, California lots of the kids had painted posters of their favourite books. The room was full of ...
Posted by Justine at 2:21, October 9th, 2007 under Bloggery, Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling, Young Adult literature |
If this is Sunday it must be Oakland. What do you mean it isn't Sunday?! But this is Oakland, right?
Today has not been one of my better efforts. Let's see:
I almost broke one of Scott's toes,
Put the "signed by" sticker on several of his books upside down (worst
jacket monkey ever),
Left my bag with our passports in it behind at a restaurant and then managed not to hear the poor waiter sprinting after me and shouting with said bag in hands (but we got the bag back! yay most excellent waiter!),
Fell asleep in the middle of Scott reading me this thingie he's working on. (He is a most excellent reader. I have ...
Posted by Justine at 23:11, October 6th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Scott's books, Travelling |
At the book shop appearances Scott keeps being offered a free book as a reward for his hard work and charming-ness. We keep choosing mass market paperbacks because we're travelling and running out of spaces. Last choice: the latest Naomi Novik. (I started it last night and it rocks.)
If you were asked to choose one book from your favourite book shop what would it be?
Posted by Justine at 8:52, October 5th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Reading, Travelling |
Guess what? The entire Magic or Madness trilogy just sold to the Japanese publisher, Hayakawa Shobo. That's right! I'm going to be in Japanese! I can't tell you how over the moon I am. Woo hooo!!!
Ever since I first heard about the whole foreign-rights thing there were two languages I've been desperate to be translated into: Spanish (cause I speak it un poco) and Japanese on account of my Japan obsession (oh, okay, mostly Kurosawa movies, Kimba, and now manga).
I screamed when I got the email. And started entertaining fantasies of a manga adaption following on from the straight translation. How cool would that be?
Now we just need to get a Spanish-language publisher to pick up the books and ...
Posted by Justine at 1:10, October 4th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Manga, Praising, Travelling, Vainglory |
Last night we went to
Anderson's books in Naperville, Illinois. Much fun was had. Scott explained the origins of the Uglies series and of Extras. The first is all about our society's beauty obsession; the second deals with
the fame thing. There was lots of Q & A. The questions were ridiculously smart and interesting and there didn't seem to be a single person who hadn't read at least three or four of Scott's books so he didn't have to worry too much about spoilers.
During the hours and hours that he was signing for the smart and very appreciative crowd I got to hang out with some fabulous folk who ...
Posted by Justine at 12:45, October 3rd, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Manga, New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Scott's books, Travelling |
Not my tour but
Scott's tour for his latest book Extras. It pubs on the 2nd of October and is deeply awesome. In fact, it's my favouritest of the Uglies series. Aya is my new hero.
I'll be along at most of the
public events. If you're around come and say hello.
I plan to keep blogging everyday. You know, on account of I'm addicted. I managed it every day we were away at Dragoncon so I don't see how a little tour will stop me.
Hey, does anyone who's been on a book tour before have any survival tips? (Other than
bring lots of shoes?)
Update: I'd be delighted to sign books. I may have to skip a few of ...
Posted by Justine at 6:25, September 28th, 2007 under Bloggery, Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, Praising, Scott's books, Travelling |
Today there is a
most excellent article in The New York Times about just how bad flying in the US is. Delays are up by 39% this year and that's based on the airlines' stats which everyone says are deeply wrong:
As anyone who has flown recently can probably tell you, delays are getting worse this year. The on-time performance of airlines has reached an all-time low, but even the official numbers do not begin to capture the severity of the problem.
That is because these statistics track how late airplanes are, not how late passengers are. The longest delays---those resulting from missed connections and canceled flights---involve sitting around for hours or even days in airports and hotels and do not ...
Posted by Justine at 16:21, July 5th, 2007 under Ranting, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 22:24, June 9th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Magic or Madness trilogy, Travelling, Vainglory, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 4:53, June 1st, 2007 under Frippery, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling, Vainglory, Young Adult literature |
So much has happened over the past few days I don't know where to begin and frankly I'm too knackered right now to go into any detail. The
Reading Matters conference was amazing. Lili and Mike did the most incredible job bringing together writers, publishers and librarians from all over. My head is still buzzing with it all.
There were several incredible moments of the conference. The three I can't stop thinking about are David Levithan's call to arms to Australian publishers and librarians to do more to support and produce young adult literature about, for, and by gays and lesbians; Margo Lanagan's fascinating thoughts about what you can and can't write about in our genre illustrated by examples from ...
Posted by Justine at 1:49, May 27th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Young Adult literature |
Am in the pretty churchy city of Adelaide for a wedding. What larks. I love weddings! And these two crazy kids are great together. But internet access is not so much limited as BLOODY EXPENSIVE. Stupid gouging hotels! Colour me outraged.
So quickly: "gaol" is an another spelling of that place where people are locked up which is usually spelled "jail". It ain't slang. It used to be the only way the word was spelled but is on its way out. I cling to it out of love and perversity.
And thanks again for all the congrats on the Norton win. I can't believe I'm still getting them! Yay! And an even bigger yay for the impact it's had on ...
Posted by Justine at 6:04, May 18th, 2007 under Ranting, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Vainglory, Whingeing, Words & Language |
Tired, overstimulated, happy. I have lots of news but none that I can share. Mostly because I'm too tired to type straight.
Has anyone read any of Somerset Maugham's writings on writing? You should. I loves him. (More coherent thoughts on it when I get my brain back.)
Also what's the consensus on Cormac McCarthy's The Road? I read it on a plane. Started off hating it, warmed to it, got teary, but am now completely unsure what I think of it. I found it kind of slight oddly enough. But I may change my mind. Maybe I'm having hype allergy?
I do know what I thought of Sergey Lukyanenko's Day Watch sequel to Night Watch. Loved it. More please! For ...
Posted by Justine at 20:33, May 8th, 2007 under Reading, Travelling, Viewing, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 6:01, May 2nd, 2007 under Bloggery, Book challenges, New York City/USA, State of the World, Travelling |
So I just realised that I'm going to be in Paris on Monday. Tomorrow! Or at least on my way there.
Paris!
I've never been there before. I know about the Eiffel Tower and Versailles and all that stuff, but those of you who've been to Paris---what would you recommend that's not in all the tourist guides? And which of the famous touristy stuff is really really really worth a looksee?
We may not have a lot of time cause of the crazy schedule, but, c'mon, it's Paris! One of the most famous cities in the world. We have to sneak out and do some cool stuff.
But what cool stuff?
What are your fave Paris restaurants, cafes, shops, whatevers? I needs to know.
Also what ...
Posted by Justine at 9:49, April 29th, 2007 under Travelling |
I get back on an airplane on Monday. It'll be barely a week since I was last on one.
Gah! No matter what airline I'm on, no matter whether I've been upgraded or not, whether it's short-haul or long-haul, very little fun is had.
Today I had an epiphany: I must stop expecting air travel to go smoothly. I must lower my expectations. In the last few years of constant travel the vast majority of my flights have been awful. So it is reasonable to expect that will continue.
From now on I will expect the check-in person not to be able to find our reservations, and the flight to be delayed or cancelled, our luggage to not get on the ...
Posted by Justine at 0:06, April 26th, 2007 under Travelling, Whingeing |
The last ten days were bloody AWESOME. I don't have words. I met so many wonderful librarians, writers, students, teachers, booksellers, readers, and other peoples. All the appearances went splendidly. Texas rocks! I loves it! More details soon.
I plan to blog ever day for the next ten because after that we bugger off to Paris, Singapore and then three weeks back home in Australia and blogging opportunities are probably going to be thin on the ground. I read some wonderful books that I want to tell you about. I also have some writing theories I want to share. Not to mention all the appearances I'm doing this week.
There's been a micro kerfuffle while I was away because ...
Posted by Justine at 23:03, April 20th, 2007 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Scott's books, Travelling |
Very flaky internet access---the wifi keeps dropping to one bar so I'm keeping this short. Also I don't seem to be able to reply to emails, but I'll be back in NYC by Saturday and will catch up then. If it's urgent call me on the mobile.
We're doing two more Texas appearances.
Details here. Come say hi.
Also I'm getting a lot of people asking me the same questions about the ending of the trilogy so I've started a
SPOILER FAQ over here [scroll down]. If you have questions about the trilogy that aren't already answered you can ask them on
the comments thread over there and I will respond. But please don't ask spoiler questions ...
Posted by Justine at 23:59, April 15th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Magic or Madness trilogy, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 12:44, April 14th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Excuses, Praising, Ranting, Scott's books, Travelling, Unicorns, Young Adult literature, Zombies |
Posted by Justine at 17:52, April 11th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling |
Today we leave for San Antonio where we'll be attending the Texas Library Association annual conference. I'm dead excited. We went to the ALA conference last year and it was fabulous. I met so many cool librarians and student librarians and writers and publishing people I thought my head would explode. Talk about over-stimulation! I look forward to more of it.
Unfortunately, we won't be doing any public signings in San Antonio. So if you're not signed up for TLA we won't get to meet you. Sorry!
Our one public appearance of the trip will be in Austin:
Monday, 16 April 2007, 7PM
Justine Larbalestier &
Scott Westerfeld
Book People
603 N. Lamar (at Sixth)
Austin, Texas
This Texas trip is also a chance for us ...
Posted by Justine at 7:18, April 10th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 1:02, February 26th, 2007 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Fans & readers, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling, Young Adult literature |
This Saturday me and Scott and some other illustrious young adult literature types will be talking about our books and life (and the superiority of zombies over unicorns) and anything else you care to ask us about at a teen literary festival in Humble, Texas:
Saturday, 24 February, 2007
Humble ISD Libraries'
Teen Lit Festival 07
Guests are: Chris Crutcher, Gail Giles,
Justine Larbalestier, Benjamin Alíre Sáenz,
Scott Westerfeld and Chris Yambar
Atascocita High School Campus
Humble, Texas
The event is open to the public so if you're anywhere in the vicinity do come and say hi. Even if you're not into mine or Scott's books, it'll be totally worth it just to hear
Chris Crutcher's keynote address. He's an incredible, awe-inspiring speaker. I heard him last ...
Posted by Justine at 1:19, February 22nd, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
A friend from the frozen north,
Chris McLaren, is choofing off to Melbourne soon and will have a whole day to spare for sightseeing. What should he see? And will he be able to see anything given the bushfires?
I recommended
the Croft Institute because it has test tubes in it and they make me happy.
He would welcome any advice, recommendations and warnings about the fair city of Melbourne from actual Melbournites.
Posted by Justine at 14:09, February 7th, 2007 under Bloggery, Sydney/Australia, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 20:59, January 29th, 2007 under New York City/USA, Praising, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Whingeing, Writing life, Young Adult literature |
Pt wants to know how to cope with jetlag. I have but two pearls of wisdom:
1) Be very very rich and fly first class. On those rare occasions I've been upgraded to business class I've recovered from jetlag many days earlier than when I fly cattle class. I can only imagine how much faster the whole thing would be in first class. Or in your own private jet. Or if you could teleport. I would not say no to a door between Sydney and New York either . . .
2) Don't fly anywhere. You get no jetlag and the environment will thank you.
Little Willow asks what my favourite fruits are and gets extra points for being an American and ...
Posted by Justine at 0:06, January 25th, 2007 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Food, Frippery, Mangosteens, Ranting, Travelling, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 20:46, November 30th, 2006 under New York City/USA, Scott's books, State of the World, Travelling |
For Scott Bangkok has been
all about the tuk-tuks. I wish I could be all spousely and say, "Yes, darling, tuk-tuks are wonderful." But I can't. They're just mutated cars. I'd much rather walk, or take the sky train, or bicycle, or ride on the river boats than get in a tuk-tuk. The rides that Scott has found so exhilarating and fun I found uncomfortable and stinky. Call me weird, but the smell of petrol? Not my favourite perfume.
Aside from the tuk-tuks and cars and trucks and other yukky smelly mobile pollution devices, I'm really enjoying Thailand. I love the sound of the language which makes English sound flat as a tack. I order a dish, "Som ...
Posted by Justine at 22:35, November 29th, 2006 under Praising, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 13:38, November 10th, 2006 under Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Mangosteens, Scott's books, Travelling, Writing goals & milestones |
. . . then I must be in London.
When I was little all I ever wanted to do was travel, but I didn't have in mind hitting Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City (twice---very briefly), Indiana, Kentucky and London all in the space of two weeks. It's too much.
Things I hate about travelling:
airports (where they confiscate your toothpaste for being a few grams over the weight limit)
airplanes (full of people hacking up their lungs)
getting sick
leaving my favourite toothpaste/book/jacket/friends behind
never being a hundred per cent sure where I am or what time it is or where the stuff I need is
Other than that I adore travelling. Anyone else got some travel whinge or love to share?
This was written on ...
Posted by Justine at 6:14, October 26th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling, Whingeing |
I ain't
never going to love Los Angeles. Not going to happen. The car thing makes it so difficult. In the last few days I've spent more time in cars than the preceding few months! Aaarggh!
But on this---my longest trip to the city---I've been eating fabulous food, walking along the beach, visiting amazing cool places like the Getty Centre, and getting to hang out with my sister and my other fabulous friends here like Doselle and Janine Young, Cecil Castellucci (at last we meet!), Alice Taylor, and Rachel Cohn. If only our insanely jampacked scheduled had allowed us to see all our friends here . . .
And you know what? If LA had footpaths and decent public transport ...
Posted by Justine at 18:37, October 11th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling |
Wow, thanks so much for all the fascinating responses to my last post. The reason I haven't commented (or responded to anyone's email) for the last five days was because I was in Kyoto with my family celebrating my mother's birthday (more on that anon). My mum didn't know me and my sister would be there so I could hardly blog about it before hand . . .
No time for a proper post so in the meantime can any of you help out
Rachel Manija Brown? She's looking for
good non-fiction books about particular cities. She explains what she's after
here. Clearly, she needs to be told about ace books on Sydney!
Posted by Justine at 10:03, August 3rd, 2006 under Bloggery, Excuses, Travelling |
The American Library Association Conference was
the first to be held in New Orleans since Katrina. Everywhere we went people thanked us for being there, for spending our money at their hotels, restaurants, bars, cafes and shops, for riding in their cabs and dancing in their clubs. For the first few days that was the most frequent sign of what Katrina had wrought: intense gratitude that 18 thousand
librarians (and hangers on such as, you know, writers and other publishing types) were in town.
The French quarter is on higher ground and largely looks like nothing happened. Gorgeous wrought iron lace work terraces (looking not unlike Sydney ones) line the narrow streets, and the restaurants ...
Posted by Justine at 17:15, June 28th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, State of the World, Travelling |
American Library Association conference highlights thus far:
Shaking hands with New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin
Meeting many wonderful librarians, especially you, Dawn!
Walking along Bourbon Street and realising that I'm walking along Bourbon Street
Randomly running into Margo Lanagan and her son Jack
Picking up lots of free books, including John Green's latest. Mmmm free books . . .
Meeting someone who's actually talked to Elvis Presley!!!!!
Running out of time so now I go.
Posted by Justine at 12:39, June 25th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
The combination of jetlag and a cold meant that I did not get as much out of this year's WisCon as I normally do. But
everybody else seemed to be having an
amazing time. There were a great many people there that I didn't even get a chance to say hello to like Suzy McKee Charnas, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Sharyn November, Nisi Shawl, Helen Pilinovsky and I hardly had a conversation of any length the whole weekend long.
But I did finally get to meet
Cherie Priest and she was just as fabulous as expected. More, even. (Thank you Liz Gorinsky for arranging it---lovely to see you, too!). As well as the ...
Posted by Justine at 18:35, May 30th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Excuses, New York City/USA, Travelling, Whingeing |
Scott and me were taken out for lunch by the lovely women of the
CCBC, Hollis, Katy, Megan and Merri. We talked graphic novels, manga, YA books and censorship and much fun was had.
My favourite moment was Megan or Merri's (I'm jetlagged and can't remember which) anecdote about a twelve-year old asking to borrow a newly arrived library book because the cover so appealed to her. The book was M. E. Kerr's Deliver Us From Evie. Evie of the title is a seventeen-year old lesbian; the girl wanting to borrow the book was from a very conservative rural family. So the school librarian looked at the girl desperately keen to read the book and imagined the outrage that would ...
Posted by Justine at 19:34, May 25th, 2006 under Book challenges, Cons & Other Gatherings, Manga, Reading, Travelling, Young Adult literature |
As me,
Nalo Hopkinson,
Scott and
Ellen Klages walked from our hotel to the Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium the heavens opened up. Best. Storm. Ever.
Well, except for the little detail that we were on our way to give a panel and wound up soaked through and knowing that our audience had been at least halved. Thank you so much to the eighty or so brave, brave souls who made it.
I think it went well, but I was wet, jet-lagged and concentrating hard on moderating so I can't be sure. Go read
Sarah Monette's excellent account.
I can say that I was dead pleased that we didn't just pat ourselves on the back and talk about how fabulous ...
Posted by Justine at 10:18, May 25th, 2006 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Feminism, New York City/USA, Travelling |
In less than twenty-four hours we'll be on a plane to NYC. And while I think NYC is a bloody excellent city, and I have many wonderful friends there I can't wait to see, I'm sad about it. For the last few years I haven't been anywhere for more than three months straight. And that place was San Miguel de Allende, not Sydney. And while San Miguel is also completely ace I'm dying to spend an uninterrupted LONG stretch of time in my hometown.
Scott says I always get like this just before we leave anywhere (San Miguel, Dunedin, Buenos Aires, NYC). He says I always say that I want to stay. Maybe. But I feel it even worse when it's ...
Posted by Justine at 18:27, May 21st, 2006 under Food, Liquids, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Whingeing |
I'm sitting at my desk watching the
flying foxes make their nightly voyage out from the Botanical Gardens. Hundreds of bat silhouettes against the darker-by-the-second sky.
Have I mentioned how much I love this flat? How sad I am that we're leaving?
Well, bugger that! I refuse to give into melancholy. Here's the view I'll be enjoying soon:
© good friend, brand-new father, and all round artistic genius
Robin Cave
That view's not so bad as all that, is it? Even if there are no flying foxes, or rainbow lorikeets, or ibis, or cockatoos . . .
Posted by Justine at 17:38, May 12th, 2006 under New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Viewing |
This year has been full on for me and Scott thus far. Oodles of work travel (Brisbane, San Francisco, New York City,
Bologna, Brisbane), lots of new sales---
Brazil (me), Denmark (Scott), Sweden (Scott)---and I just heard news that MorM and ML have sold in yet another market. Hopefully I'll be able to tell you about it soon. We're both on the shortlists for some pretty awesome awards---the
Ethel Turner (me), the
MLA's Thumps Up (me, Scott), and the
Locus Awards (Scott)---and Scott's book
Specials came out this week and has been ranked very high ((As high as 232 overall and no. 5 on the bestselling teen books list. No. 2 if you just look ...
Posted by Justine at 12:03, May 3rd, 2006 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Scott's books, Sydney/Australia, Travelling |
Philip Stanton, one of the illustrators we met in Bologna, drew me and Scott while I delivered my keynote about "Regional Voice" for
The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators Before Bologna conference. (Scott was up front with me to do the American and Scottish readings; I don't do accents.)
It's lovely to have this keepsake of the SCBWI conference (thanks, Philip!). It was my first time teaching creative writing (we taught a workshop on writing synopses) and it turns out that I really enjoy it. I had my doubts because I had to teach back when I was an academic and, well, there are things I have loved more in this life (like fourteen-hour ...
Posted by Justine at 11:44, April 8th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
Just back from Bologna (now that was a long journey home via Frankfurt & Singapore---so long our luggage decided to stay iin Frankfurt. Sigh.) Had a wonderful time. Bologna is gorgeous and the food is extraordinary. Truffles! Fresh blood orange juice every morning! I now understand the appeal of fresh mozarella di Bufala . . .
But you all want to know about
the book fair, right? It's totally geared to business. Unlike
Book Expo America where you're overwhelmed by how many books there are---and more particularly how many free books there are---at Bologna I was overwhelmed by how many meetings were going on. Every single stall, no matter how small, was set up with lots of desks, ...
Posted by Justine at 22:36, April 2nd, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
Or, you know, Bologna Blisses. Truffle grated on top of everything---even the gelato. Blood orange juice with breakfast every morning. Lots of sexy, stylish people walking around ciaoing one another. Lots of vespas. And so far every one of our foreign publishers has turned out to be lovely. Just as well cause that's the main thing we're doing here: meeting and eating.
The Bologna Book Fair is all business all the time. No swags of free books which means it's not really the place for authors! Each booth is full of tables where the rights people sit and conduct meeting after meeting after meeting til their eyes look ready to dribble out of their skulls. If anything the agents in their ...
Posted by Justine at 21:41, March 29th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
