Exciting! News?

[trinityofone]

Things have been really hectic at work, so once again I have very little idea what's going on with the rest of the world. But! Thrillingly, our first preview copies of my first issue of the magazine arrived yesterday. My name in the masthead: YAY! And quite a few stories by me, several of which don't entirely suck: DOUBLE YAY! It's the September/October issue (of Hollywood Life, okay? There, I said it, excitement overrides paranoia) and it'll be available soon! Buy it Leaf through it at the newsstand when you can!

Speaking of accomplishments, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but my father has for more than a year been working on a documentary about artist Edward Biberman. I've seen the final cut, and it's fantastic; he's now submitting it to festivals. He also has a website that just went live: Check it out here! See? Pretty! Cross your fingers for him, okay? =)

I've recently become addicted to LibraryThing—siriaeve's fault, natch. It's a website that lets you catalogue your books online. I have 1010 listed so far, and I'm stopping there for now because I'm too afraid to touch all the books in my closet. I thought I'd start playing with the review function next; are there any titles you'd particularly like to see reviewed? I've marked everything I've read with the tag "read"—creative, I know. And that's about half of them. I'm not sure if that's good, or pathetic.

ANYWAY. Speaking of books, I finally got the prizes for the SGA Bulwer-Lytton contest mailed out last week—sorry for being so slow. And doubly sorry: once I got to the post office, I realized that I didn't actually have liviapenn or wolfshark's addresses. Can you guys e-mail them to me (again)? I'll make another trip to the post office on Saturday.

And...that's it, I guess. For a post that was supposed to be all Exciting! News! this was very dull.

ETA: Oh, and I just remembered that I am supposed to be interviewing a violinist named Joshua Bell soon. Does anybody know anything about him? (I am, of course, about to do my own research, but I'm curious about your opinions, whether you've heard of him, etc.)

Comments

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

As one who used to play viola in an orchestra, I have DEFINITELY heard of Joshua Bell. The girl you met the first night we met in Dublin? She's completely and utterly obsessed with him. Like, wants to have his babies obsessed with him. It's a bit scary. He's a great violinist, not, like, the best ever of all time, but he's very good, and very charismatic (for a violinist). Definitely worth buying one of his albums, if you like classical music.

So why are you interviewing him? He's not very Hollywood (although he's more Hollywood than most classical musicians, I guess....)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I'd don't know why I'm interviewing him, really; it's not like they ever tell me anything. But it's for our "My Favorite Things" column. Apparently, I am meant to discover his favorite things. And if he says, "Eliza's friend from Indiana," I will be sure to let you know.

Definitely worth buying one of his albums, if you like classical music.

Silly girl. In magazine industry you do not buy CDs, they buy you you get comped them. Which, hopefully, I will be soon.

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

Oops. My mistake. Of course you'd get comped them - they want their interviewer to like them! Silly, silly me.

Somehow I think he's probably a little more scared by Eliza's Friend In Indiana than anything else. She's fun, but in very small doses.

Aaaaanyway. Congrats on your first issue! That's seriously exciting. You should frame it.

Also, I will definitely check out LT when I get back to uni. I only have twenty or so books here right now, though, so it's a little more difficult to get a comprehensive listing of all the books I own. And really, I need to be back in the States to do that, because most of them are living at my mom's house because moving at the end of uni is a bitch, as I'm sure you recall.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I would frame it, but then I would have a scary photo of Teri Hatcher staring at me all the time. Perhaps I should just make a blow up of the masthead and draw a big red circle around my name? ;-)

God, moving books is SUCH A PAIN. (Literally!) I mean, I love love love my library, but it makes it seriously hard for me to ever consider moving to another country, or even to another state, on a permanent basis.