Tag: saints and sinners

The post about hot air

A few weeks ago, New Orleans was almost late-summer sultry when Tim and I were there. According to Greg, after Saints & Sinners, the temperature suddenly became more bearable. The past few days in NYC, people kept assuring me that usually the heat and humidity aren’t quite that intense until later in the summer. Is it that every place just gets hotter when Tim appears? Or do I talk too freaking much? Hmmmm…

However, that being said? Just for the sheer pleasure of being in one of my favorite places on the planet, I’ll deal with whatever weather NYC offers. I may whine about the walking and the heat, but there is NO PLACE anywhere like Manhattan. It’s a city that would eat me alive if I tried to live in it, but I sure love visiting there.

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Featured S&S Author No. 2

Last year, one of my favorite panels at Saints & Sinners was a discussion of whether HIV/AIDS is still part of the story. There was a bit of a crowd at that one, with some good questions, and the speakers were excellent.

This year, though the crowd was a little smaller and quieter, the speakers at HIV/AIDS Awareness: A Novel Approach were equally excellent. As long as S&S hosts a panel on writing about HIV and AIDS, I’ll be in the audience, because this is my particular writing challenge that I grapple with. Though I think there is mention of AIDS/HIV in every novel I’ve written/co-written, and certainly there are references to safer sex, those moments in fiction barely scratch the surface of my real-life experiences.
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