Nick Sagan Online

Enjoying The Moment

Had a great birthday.  Celebrated with family and friends, and signed copies of Shrapnel: Arestia Rising over at Comics for Collectors.  Met fans of Shrapnel, fans of my Idlewild trilogy and fans of the Star Trek episodes I worked on.  A really good time.  Felt very fortunate and enjoyed a sense of relative harmony with the universe.   Existence and consciousness too often go taken for granted, but right now I'm feeling deeply appreciative. 

Don't always feel that way, of course.  Some days I'm down.  Frustrated with the world or with myself.  But it's been pretty decent lately, these past nine days since my birthday. 

Hope you're doing well, too.  How are things?

Shrapnel Signing

From left to right: me, Mark Long and Zack Sherman.

Cornell Book Signing

Some photos of the 12th Annual Reunion Weekend Book Signing at Cornell University.  Slightly blurry, I'm afraid.

Multiple authors signing at once might be the literary equivalent of speed dating.  With so many choices, a reader has a fair chance of finding a book he'll like.  I was put between two non-fiction writers: To my right was the very funny Douglas M. Parker, author of Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse, and to my left was photographer Kevin Stearns, who beautifully captured the magic of my hometown (and the surrounding area) with The Finger Lakes Region of New York: A Photographic Portait.  Very nice chatting with both of them.

Fortunately, I didn't have endless time to talk with my neighbors; I was too busy signing.  It wasn't my usual crowd, and I don't imagine that many of the Cornell Alumni came to see me specifically, but even so I somehow managed to sell a good number of books.