Big News from Backspace. org
As Sarah Weinman noted today, Ben Sevier at SMP-Minotaur bought Marcus Sakey’s novel The Blade Itself at auction via Scott Miller. Sarah met the author at the Backspace Writers Conference last June in NYC. Karen Dionne, the organizer of the conference and co-owner of Backspace. Org. deserves some props for putting both the organization and the conference together. The conference is scheduled for June 2006 so head over to her site at Backspace. org. or go to Publishers Marketplace and click on Karen’s blog called Backspace and read all about it.
The Earl has handed me a note. He would like to attend the conference next year amd wants to know if Barry Eisler will be attending. Yes, Barry was there last year and is will be back in 2006. I don’t know if the hotel has a rooftop garden suitable for groups of five hundred or more.
I’d suggest to the Earl that he contact Karen directly, but she’d never forgive me.