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!