after-party @ the pink door

Here's another photo, this one with (from left around the table) Brooke Chapman, writer and freelance editor; me; Diane Reverand, my editor at St Martin's Press; Swain Wolfe, author of The Boy Who Invented Skiing, among other books, who also belongs to Diane (see http://www.swainwolfe.com/); Alle Hall, Hugo House's InPrint Series coordinator; Laura Kalpakian, another of Diane's writers; and Rebecca Agiewich (see http://rebecca.agiewich.net/home/) author of BreakupBabe.

We had all just come from the Richard Hugo House (http://www.hugohouse.org/), where Diane, Laura, Swain, and I talked to a group of about 60 people about the editor-writer relationship/process and Diane met with writers afterward as they pitched their ideas/works in progress to her. I've been to several events there, but always on the other side of the looking-glass. How weird and wonderful to be sitting on a panel (on a stage!) talking to other writers about this wacky life of ours... It was such an honor. Plus I got to spend some time with some really fabulous people. And OH MY GOD the lasagna. If you're ever in Seattle, go to the Pink Door in Post Alley, and have the lasagna. I'm dead serious. It's a life-changing experience.