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Friday, May 19, 2006

Instapundit-ed and the first rush of BEA madness

First Page Six, now Instapundit...after a day of nonstop book-grabbing, socializing, and talking to tons of smart, interesting writers. Wow. My head is spinning in the best possible way, full of ideas and book lust and possibilities. I think it's possible to walk away from BEA overwhelmed in every sense of the word, and perhaps discouraged-so many books which you know you will never read, can yours be anything but a drop in the bucket? And yet, there's something beautiful and inspiring and exciting, something that made me feel so alive and excited as I rode down the escalator, and it wasn't just the promise of free stuff. It's being around so many people who care, really care, about books. Who get as giddy about them as some people do about music or movies or money or food (okay, I got giddy about food today too).

It's about community, or rather, communities. It's exciting and invirgorating and I truly hope to take all that home and make something out of it. I've never been the loner-writer-at-home-and-never-come-out-till-I'm-done type, and I realized tonight that part of the reason is that I feed off other people's ideas and energy. Not just in a formal sense of wanting to quote them, but of bouncing around my thoughts, of knowing that they care about the things I care about, that it's not just all in my head. Every little "you can do it," every acknowledgement that maybe I'm onto something, little tidbits of information and perspective, all help so much. I started to feel like I was coming back to life on Wednesday night, hanging out at Lolita after my reading and just being silly, catching up, gossiping, forgetting about the stress and drama and bad things, and even though all is not sunshine and cupcakes, I feel really invincible, and it's a great feeling.

Full BEA report soon, photos Sunday night. In brief phraselogy: yummy mac and cheese, Chronicle hot dogs, Guiness Book of World records balloon flower, Meg Cabot, Jeannette Walls, dishing about dating with Bridget Harrison, finally meeting Tania Katan, perfect gifts from Alice Ayers: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How cramemd cloests, cluttered offices, and on-the-fly planning make the world a better place (all those words are on the cover!) by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman and Pornology: One Nice Girl's Hilarious Misadventures as She Attempts to Understand Strip Clubs, Adult Videos, Sex Toys, Internet Porn, Erotica, and Finally Learns to Relax, Since Afteer All It's Just Sex (also all on the cover) by Ayn Carillo-Gailey, catalogs galore, lipstick imprint autographs from Kayla Perrin and M.J. Rose, See Jane Write, Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Anonymous Lawyering, audio erotica CDs, the Ellora's Cave bus, an adorable 11-week-old baby, Reasonites. Much, much more too.

Saturday means Amy Sedaris (!!!), my signing, Harlequin and maybe PGW parties, and who knows what other madness.

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