I have been in Seattle since Tuesday, where I am on an uber booklover adventure. I literally have been racing all over the city --- and I am loving every minute of it. Lourdes Orive, an old friend and one of our reviewers, has been Master Hostess. She is a native of Seattle, and thus on each block she has great stories about the history of the city. Here’s a taste of what has been going on.

When I started working on GraphicNovelReporter, probably the hardest thing for me to do was to write, well, this. As fun as it is to do the entire job, writing about myself seemed boring and beside the point (I had the same problem at Pages magazine: The editor’s letter was always the last thing I wrote, and I always secretly hoped that a last-minute ad or something would squeeze it out of the issue). So I’m a little bit reticent to talk about the big events of last week, which included an interview on GalleyCat and a speech before a group of librarians at the Brooklyn Public Library. Suffice to say that I was well outside of my comfort zone last week.