Catching up!

In the few minutes before the National Book Awards Ceremony starts, I thought I would go ahead and make a little post on here since it's been quite a while. What have I been up to? Oh, all kinds of things like squeezing into subway cars, dodging small mountains of trash, and (of course) attending literary events!

This was from a while ago, but Gillian Anderson had her book release! Yes, that's right, she co-wrote a book. And get this, it's science fiction! Though she did say that they made a point of not making it Scully-esque.

Here's my semi-fuzzy picture from the event. I haven't read her book yet. It's called A Vision of Fire, and it's definitely on my list of things I need to do.

Flash forward to today: Shabam! And what an epic day it was! It's not every day that you see famous people, but it happens every once in a while. Today, the National Book Foundation had a morning event, a sort of precursor to the National Book Awards tonight. Neil Gaiman and Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicker came to Washington Square Park and gave out free books this morning! I got a hug from Neil who went down the line of people, hugging all of us. And then Daniel hugged Neil, so it's kind of like I was hugged by association.

Here are some of the pictures of the event. It was freezing outside! But so worth it to see these literary giants! They ran out of their own books, but I didn't care. How many times do you get to meet either of these two, let alone at the same time! If you haven't read their stuff, do yourself a favor and check it out.

Also, I've been participating in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it's called. It happened every November, and the goal is to write a book of 50,000 words in 30 days. I'm doing well so far and into the 40,000's now, the farthest I've ever gotten in NaNoWriMo!

In order to keep this post brief, I'll just add one last detail. Though it may surprise many of you, I'm heading back to Boise. Double-take! What? Yup! I'll be leaving sometime in the middle of December and then working on what I want to do next. NYC is a great city, and I'll keep posting while I'm here. More updates will follow!