Right now I am watching the sun rise in New York. Usually I wouldn't be up this early but I came home last night from the Rona Jaffe Awards and was asleep by ten. The night before that I with some publishing types, including Richard Nash (ex-Soft Skull), Johnny Temple of Akashic, and Joanna Yas of Open City. Tonight I'm going to an opening at jen bekman.
This fall, I'm focusing all my efforts on one author: Terese Svoboda, whose two new books are Weapons Grade and Trailer Girl. She's doing "Crossing the Line," a discussion on writing different genres with Stephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries) at Idlewild Books on October 11th, and "The Long Life of the Short Story," with Ben Greenman (Correspondences) at the Center for Fiction on November 12th. There's one more edition of "Upstairs at the Square," on October 27th, and then we're on hiatus for the holidays. "Innovative Publicity Now," the talk I gave this week, is available for $30 at SheWrites. It was fun, it came from the future.
Currently I am planning my projects for next year, which has made me even more contemplative than usual: What do I want my life to be like, on both a small scale and a large scale? Can I get by with less money? Will I make enough to survive? These are always the questions when you design your own career.
I am not sure if it's a consequence of turning thirty, or the general tenor of our culture now, but I am interested in doing less, better. I've been cutting back on what I am available to do and although it's been a difficult adjustment in some cases, and takes a while to implement, I'm happy with the general trend. Forecast: excellent.
Previously: The Bloom of Youth.
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