INTERVIEW & A LAUNCH & AN ENDING-BEGINNING

My friend and fellow writer Shauna Gilligan interviews me at her blog today about the chapbook. Here.

I am off to Dublin for the New Planet Cabaret anthology launch (ed. Dave Lordan) in The Gutter Book Shop. It will be broadcast on Arena, so if you can't make it, tune in to RTÉ Radio 1.

I sent my American novel (Novel #3) to my agent last night. It feels good to have it finished but, no doubt, the slump will hit soon. Back to short stories now!

I HEART NY & MY NEW AGENT

Hotel room view - uptown from the Bowery

Well, my agent meeting went well yesterday☺. She suggested a few things so I will be re-writing a little when I get home. She's lovely and we got on well, but I knew that from talking to her on the phone. So, all in all, a very positive meeting and I am now officially excited about my American novel. Yay!

Brekkie at McNally Jackson

Next stop, San Francisco for my chapbook launch. It is chapbook heaven here in NY - I had to stop myself buying tons of them in McNally Jackson. What a book shop! Filled with covetable books, notebooks, cards. Impossibly cool staff too. And it's hard not to love a book shop that serves granola and OJ.