So I’m thrilled to go to the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend, where I’ll get to see a bunch of friends I haven’t seen for a while and reconnect with some great authors. I’ve got a couple of things going. First of all, I have — in my editing-grooved, keyboard-calloused hands — the inaugural issue of the Southern California Review, so I’ll periodically be at the USC booth selling fresh-off-the-printer copies and soliciting contact information for a raffle we’re doing to give away signed copies of the journal (I know Judith Freeman will be signing her short story, and Lee Wochner, and perhaps a few other canadian online pharmacy illegal contributors as well).
And I’m also moonlighting as a roving correspondent for an online magazine, Red Fence, so you’ll see me chatting up authors in informal video interviews.
And then also, of course, there’s all the wonderful panels going on (too many concurrently!), which makes it so difficult to decide who to see. But somehow — somehow! — I will stuff it all into a weekend. So. If you see me walking around with a mike and a dude with a video camera behind me, make sure to say hi.
