I'm going to jump into the next book, which
is called Artemis in Echo Park.
You might want to imagine a person.
She's not a goddess, but she has the intrinsic characteristic
of the goddess--
the Greek goddess Artemis, meaning she
likes to be alone a lot.
She hangs out with animals.
She likes to be in the wilderness,
although she's in an urban wilderness.
She is a person who hangs out under the moonlight
because she's a moon goddess and her brother is a sun god.
And she's interested in the layers of history in her city.
So that's how this book was developed.
Alison will understand because it's
a book-length project, so yeah.
Actually, I have to thank you a lot for your book
because I learned many things about how to put something
like this together.
The Valley of the Amazons.
She went to the grocery store with me
in North Hollywood wearing a black tank top and no bra.
We stood together in line.
Her aviator glasses, her hair slicked back
and one strand falling over her eyes.
I felt like we were in a clearing,
ready to mount the horses.
The men stood at a distance.
Our nakedness was nonchalant connected to horses and skin
warmth.
We would ride off when the checker tallied
our purchases and the clearing would smell like horses
the rest of the day.