This time next week I’ll be pressing my outfit, putting on the non-walking shoes and stuffing my phone and camera into my borrowed clutch to head off to the Lambda Literary Awards celebration in New York City!

I don’t really know what to expect, though I look forward to seeing my wonderful writing colleagues Karin Kallmaker and Ruth Perkinson again.  I met both last summer in Phoenix at the annual conference of the Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual conference.  (I am sorry I can’t attend that this year s well.  But in the future, I hope!)  I also look forward to meeting colleagues I’ve worked with electronically, but never met.  It will be fun.