Chasing into the Rising Sun

(click through to see the list of titles; these are the books I came home with)
OK, I'm still waiting for some photos to be posted about the Philadelphia part of my trip, so I will only speak of traveling to New York for now.

There are several posts that talk about my time in New York. Bill Shunn's is the best/most complete as Bill and I spent nearly all of our time in NY together. Plus he has great photos to illustrate what we did, like eat brains:

But not the Rocky Mountain Oysters:

And there was the whole hookah thing later:

I was in New York mainly for a KGB Reading that I helped set up. The lovely K. Tempest Bradford wrote up the event here. It was an official/unofficial Electric Velocipede thing. Both readers--Marly Youmans and Dan Braum--are EV contributors. Plus we wore the "Tempest EV" t-shirts:

The reading was great fun, as was dinner afterwards. After dinner, we went out for a few drinks. It was awesome to see all these people again. I didn't get much chance to visit some of the places in NY I wanted to see. I guess all that means is that I'll have to go back some day.

A few things I did without my wonderful host Mr. Shunn included having a great lunch with Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books. We talked about something very interesting that I can't elaborate on here. I also found time to squeeze in a Ramen meal with my uber-talented editor Juliet Ulman.

And despite having a schedule that was more jam-packed than I realized until I got there, I found time to record an interview with Jim Freund for his radio show, The Hour of the Wolf. Jim was very kind to me (mostly due to my schedule) and let me record in advance rather than come into the studio at 5AM to do a live broadcast. I'll let everyone know when it's going to air and when it's available online for listening at your leisure.

It was great fun, but now I'm back in the regular world and back at work. I hope to have a report of the Philadelphia portion of my trip soon.

For the photo-oriented, here's a link to Bill Shunn's photo group of the trip and Ellen Datlow's photos of the reading.