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December 17, 2004
Another Week Ends
I’m tired.
A sure sign of age is being worn out after being out two consecutive weeknights. But, tis the season and all that.
On Wednesday I was attending a party thrown by a literary agency. No, they don’t represent me, but one of the partners is a pal and she took pity on me, I guess. It was a terrific gathering, just small and intimate enough that I knew most everyone there. The offices aren’t terribly large and I got a chance to play catch up with people while hanging around the main area.
I actually got to swap stories with the Pocket contingent of Marco Palmieri, Jen Heddle and Elisa Kassin (whom I have seen out of the offices only once before). Also got to trade jibes with Keith DeCandido, Terri Osborne and David and Kara Mack. I was also pleasantly surprised to run into Jackie Ching, the former Milestone editor now at Watson-Guptill. We had traded calls for a while about a project that never happened. Off in a corner, we actually came up with something that may be worth pursing in January. And, I was thrilled to run into Anne Sowards, the always-upbeat Berkley editor who I only usually see at the SFWA receptions. Seeing her twice within a month is virtually unprecedented.
The following night was Deb’s office party. Very different starting with the fact that I knew no one before I got there. It was also at a club, with blaring music and too many people for the space. As a result, I was more than a little hoarse this morning. Anyway, it was nice finally putting faces and voices to the names I have heard these last 20 months or so. A few highlights:
One co-worker is the nephew of Howard Zimmerman, now an editor at Byron Preiss Visual Publications, but who was my first boss when I worked at Starlog. And he toiled alongside Keith when they were twenty-somethings at BPVP.
The other was meeting Larry Kramer, the guy who founded one company that grew and merged with other small companies until it finally became Marketwatch, which just got bought by Dow Jones. He’s a down-to-earth guy, fun to chat with. We swapped some stories, mostly about his days working at the Syracuse University school paper while delivering pizzas. We also talked about his many plans for the future since he doesn’t need to work anymore but, like me, can’t imagine not having something to do.
Fun nights but I like the idea of going home and being a couch potato.
Besides, Kate comes home tomorrow for four weeks and that’s going to be really, really nice.
Posted by Bob Greenberger at December 17, 2004 05:09 PM
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