Hi, I’m Jackie Morse Kessler. I write stuff. My novel HUNGER will hit the shelves in fall 2010, which feels like a really, really long time from now. But hey, by then Lost will be over. (Great, now I just made myself sad. Where’s the chocolate?)
So. Let’s see. What to put in my debut blog post?
Okay.
Some things about me, in no particular order:
I am short. Like, really short. Like, you’re probably taller than me. I used to think I was five feet tall. But then I went for my physical exam, and either the RN was being evil or I’ve shrunk. Now I’m 4′11.5″. On the plus side, people tend to grab stuff off the high shelves for me in stores. (On the minus side, my pants are too long.)
I am a New Yorker. I was born in Brooklyn, worked in Manhattan, and now I live upstate. (Yes, I’m still allowed to call myself a New Yorker. It’s in the rules.) I come into NYC often; sometimes it’s for work–my agent and my publisher are in the city–but other times, it’s because NYC is a lot of fun.
I have a lot of comic books. Used to have 9,000 of them, but then our basement flooded. I had to pitch a lot. I cried. Favorite comic series: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. I don’t collect them anymore, but I keep drifting by my local comic shop. I might start up again soon. Might. Maybe.
I read a lot. A lot. Right now, I’m reading Gena Showalter’s Intertwined and Gregory Maguire’s Son of a Witch. I have about 200 books that are waiting to be read. The next book will be Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair. In a perfect world, I’d sit around all day, writing, reading, and eating chocolate.
That’s it for now. (Can’t tell you too much about me in the first post; I’d run out of material to talk about in a week.) The next blog post will talk more about HUNGER, and what Post Mortem is all about. Hope your September is going great!
Tags: Hunger, Jackie Morse Kessler, Post Mortem
OMG, you are shorter than me (I claim to be 5′2″). You’re the same height, give or take an eighth of an inch, as the protagonist in my WIP.
You will weep; a friend had a signed copy of Sandman, that she stood in line for two hours to get signed. Until a flood destroyed it. I used to be a big Marvel X-anything reader. Then the mutant angst in the 80’s just got to be too much. Now I collect manga. They’re more expensive but they don’t come out as often.
I consider myself a biblioholic. I have a book a day habit. The first step may be recognizing that you have a problem, but frankly, I don’t care. I like my problem.
Yep, I’m shorter than you.
And you know I’m rooting for your protagonist.
DUDE. I so feel for your friend! I’m happy to report that NONE of my Sandman comics had to be pitched. (Thank GOD.) I was totally into the X-Men. In fact, I drew a big picture of Kitty Pride (who was going by “Sprite” back then) as the “sign in” poster for my Bat Mitzvah. I stopped reading X-Men right around the whole Jean Grey was never Phoenix thing. That was too much for my fragile little mind.
Haven’t really read much manga. Willing to try.
I like your problem too! I guess that makes me an enabler.
I’m one of the people who grabs items off the top shelf for you. Hello down there.
I never really got the whole comic/graphic novel thing – or I haven’t yet. I prefer the pictures my mind comes up with rather than what I’m provided with, but that’s just me.
Also a big reader; I read three books in the past week – not a huge amount, but considering I’m on holiday and doing a lot of touristy stuff as well, I’m pretty surprised.