Ten years ago today, I was in Austin, Texas at a literary convention. I'd get up in the morning, have breakfast, return to my hotel room to work on Enter, Night, come down for lunch, work on the novel until the evening, then have dinner and socialize with my friends and colleagues at night. Not the idea way to spend three days, but the writing process on that first novel was incredibly hard, and quite fraught. I still managed to leave Texas with some wonderful memories of the conference, but it could have been a hundred years ago as easily as it was ten. This photo is from the book launch that October with my dear friend, novelist Lauren B. Davis, and the legendary Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Lafferière.
