Acquisitions editor, trade books.
Readin'; Editin'; Writin'; Campin'; Hikin'; Cookin'; Cookin' Bacon; Bacon; Halloween; The NY Press in the 90s; Spanish Lake, BC; The Moment You Realize Fall is Coming; Dogs...particularly the squashed-faced breeds(Bullmastiffs, French Bulldogs, English Bulldogs, Pugs, Dogue de Bordeaux); A town called Likely; A ghost town called Quesnel Forks; The Strand bookstore; A dose of celebrity gossip from time to time; And the Living Dead Dolls. Loving the Living Dead Dolls. Imagine that. Heh.
Good folks...and...amazing artists and illustrators and designers and potential authors.
Ms. Winehouse; Modest Mouse; Prince; Donny Hathaway; Miles; Chris Cornell; PJ Harvey; red suede red; Gorillaz; Linda Perry; The John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Desert Island Disc Recordings (original sessions); Teena Marie; Latin Playboys; Type O Negative; Tori Amos; Afghan Whigs; Jacques Brel; Alice in Chains; Sugar Cubes; Elliott Smith; Cesaria Evora; Pet; The Raconteurs; Jane's Addiction; Emmylou Harris; Parliament Funkadelic; Jeff Buckley; Mildred For a Day; Etta James; Corrosion of Conformity; Tito and Tarantula; Maggie's Dream; Pink; Archers of Loaf; Yaz; Stevie Nicks; The Time; Cowboy Junkies; Natural Born Killers (soundtrack); Kids (soundtrack); 9 1/2 Weeks (soundtrack); Tricky
28 Days Later; Carnival of Souls; Night of the Living Dead; The Changeling; Amores Perros; Last Year at Marienbad; Desolation Sound; The Crow; Shaun of the Dead; Jacob's Ladder; Stranger Than Fiction; The Shining's "Come and play with us, Danny. Forever. And ever. And ever." Sigh.
Animal Cops: New York (...sometimes Houston); House Hunters; Intervention; I Shouldn't Be Alive!; Ghostly Encounters; Hauntings; Project Runway/Catwalk; The Twilight Zone (original or otherwise); Flipping Out; Dead Like Me. Ooooh and Judge Judy. Heh. There's a bit of theme here, huh?
Flight by Sherman Alexie; Love Dance of the Mechanical Animals by Maggie Estep; Assballs: A Little Retrospective by Char Hoyt, et al.; The Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block; Ruining it for Everybody by Jim Knipfel; Homer Price by Robert McCloskey; Locas by Yxta Mya Murray; The Dollhouse Caper by Jean S. O'Connell; The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon; The Wild Hunt by Jane Yolen; House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski; Coraline by Neil Gaiman; Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne DuMaurier; The Leaving by Budge Wilson; Jesus Was Way Cool by John S. Hall; The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen Randle; Doll Face Has a Party by Pam Conrad; Drown by Junot Diaz; Amphigorey Also by Edward Gorey; Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll; Blue by George Elliott Clarke; The Turkey That Ate My Father by Dean Marney; A Million Little Pieces by James Frey; Everworld by K.A. Applegate; The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant; I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames; The Phantom Cyclist and Other Ghost Stories by Ruth Ainsworth; Fred and Pete Go to the Beach by Cynthia Nugent;Yellow Blues by Sean L. Moore
Dad. Doobie. Both hangin' on the OtherSide these days.Mary Capouya: brilliant editor and mentor and friend.And, of course, my olde homestead: The NYC.