Armadas of publishing house execs, editors, and marketing staffers, agents working and being worked, 500 or so published authors, even more wannabes, and lots of book-toting and book-buying fans converged on SF’s Marriott Hotel for the RWA’s yearly conference.
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We walk aimlessly but happily for the next five hours, strolling along cobble-stoned, curving streets, the planning of which must date back to a time when right angles were irrelevant or distasteful. Each small block reveals many restaurants, so many that we suspect Madrileños must live in kichenless homes. Some societal manifestations are no different than in San Francisco, however. The teenagers are pierced, bizarrely coifed, and loosely clothed. And there are beggars with 
It was 20 hours from the time we awoke in San Francisco on Thursday morning to our next prone position in Madrid. Taking into account the mandated starts, stops, curious pauses, and fluid movements, our crossing nine time zones in just over twice as many hours did not seem either inefficient or onerous. SFO->JFK->MAD, arriving at our hotel at 10:30 a.m. local time. The 
One of the most important lessons I learned at college did not come in a classroom.
Business is slow at the Marin County Indian restaurant that Ram owns. In my opinion, he should take this time to do some cleaning in the back, but instead he leans on an elbow and tells me about his last visit to Delhi.