Week Wrap-Up and NYC

I suddenly know more than I ever thought I'd know about motivation, customer and employee engagement, and points based incentive and rewards. I've had a crash course in the industry at my new job, so consequently, no blog posts.

Yes, I've always got an excuse.

Weird thing is, I'm finally getting PAID to write. Advertising copy, sales one-sheets, marketing plans and strategies. It's just not fiction. And I've been so wiped out at night, due to the intense days full of learning a new career - a new fucking career at my age! - that I haven't been making too much traction on THE INCORUPTIBLES. I'm coming to realize that TI is gonna be my 1+ year novel to write.

Life gets in the way until you can make writing fiction your life. I'm not gonna feel bad about the pace.

So, Sunday I leave for NYC for the Web 2.0 Expo, in which I must learn the best ways to use social media for B2B. B2C is easy. B2B? Not so much.

See, I'm already talking in acronyms. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Anywho, I'll be at Joelle Charbonneau and Hilary Davidson's reading at Partners in Crime, 44 Greenwich, at 7pm on September 28. I finally get to meet my agent, Stacia Decker! And visit the hallowed halls of Donald Maass offices.

All I know is one night, I'm going to Sammy's Romanian Steakhouse and having some old-school NY Jewish grub - beef tenderloin, karnatzlack, chopped liver. A bottle of vodka encased in ice. I don't know if that's traditionally Jewish, but I'm having it.

If you're in town, let's make a party of it and enjoy the dulcet tones of Danni Luv (that's a man) featured in the following video.