Look at me in this photo. I was feeling thrilled just to be in attendance as “media” at the Good Omens party at SXSW. I didn’t yet know that Neil Gaiman would share many of my posts, that I would see him speak the next day, that I would see the cast on a panel as well. And I definitely didn’t know that with a combination of my excellent social media posts and a lot of good luck, I would receive an invitation to the Good Omens VIP party. And if you’d told me all that, it would have been enough to make me ecstatic. But even then, I wouldn’t have known that at the VIP party, Doug Mackinnon would recognize me from my twitter posts and beckon me over, and that he’d be complimenting my tattered copy of Good Omens when Neil Gaiman himself would join us, and quietly sign both books I had in my hands (American Gods and Good Omens). I didn’t know that I would walk back into the party and celebrate with my new friend, a ravishing Madame Tracy cosplayer, because I’d gotten to meet a fantastic director and my writing hero, just out of luck. It was a dream of a weekend, and this photo is of me at the very beginning of it all.
