Top of the Mark

It was a bizarre weekend. Friday night I hung out with Casey, this girl I used to be friends with back in the Santa Rosa days, which was crazy in that I've not seen or heard from her in over ten years. I guess she did a google search, found my book, bought and read it from cover to cover in two days, and then shot me off an email, just to say hello. A week later, she was in the city, staying on the 14th floor of the Mark Hopkins - which is literally right around the corner from me, and it was great (and wild) to see her again after all these years.

Saturday I did some graphic design work for my job - a poster I've been laboring on - which is coming around quite nicely, and then watched the first season of Deadwood on DVD, which took a little while to get into, but I ended up really enjoying it.

Yesterday I watched football at my friends' coffee bar in North Oakland, hung out with a few of the old fellas, and dropped off some books for them to sell. I also spoke with two bookstores on College Avenue. It's weird to do the self-promoting thing, and I guess that's one of the advantages of going through a traditional publisher - they do this shit for you, but nonetheless, it's something I believe in, so I have to put in the work. Thanks though for all of you who've helped spread the word.

Finally, Things Kept Burning is now available on amazon and barnesandnoble.com, although both sites have marked it up significantly, so it's still in your best interest to purchase it straight from the publisher. In addition, I scored an interview at my job with Storm Thorgerson, one of my heroes growing up, and I can't say enough about how big this is for me. I even got an email this weekend where he signed it "Von Stormington" which I thought was great.