Wow. I had not realized how long it has been since I last posted anything in this blog.

I spent this past weekend in Manhattan at the 2019 Writer's Digest Annual Conference. I'd never attended a writing conference before. Recently I heeded all of the advice that if one wants to move into a career as an author, one needs to attend conferences and network. I'm an introvert and anti-social, if I may exaggerate somewhat, but I found this conference very worthwhile.

I learned a good bit about the business end of writing and publishing. The three keynote speakers were excellent (N. K. Jemisin, Karin Slaughter, and Min Jin Lee). I met a number of other authors in various stages of their careers.

My wife came along and spent time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also caught a matinee of a pair of one act plays for half-price called Sea Wall/A Life, starring Tom Surridge and Jake Gyllenhaal.

After the conference, we strolled Central Park for a few hours, dodging the bead bracelet hawkers and avoiding tainted recycled tea from food carts, before heading home.