What Have I Done?

I’ve agreed to interview Los Angeles crime novelist Gary Phillips (Bangers, High Hand, Only the Wicked) in front of a live audience during February’s Left Coast Crime convention, to be held in Seattle. Phillips, with whom I’ve spoken on several occasions, and whose work I have admired over the years, is scheduled to be that convention’s toastmaster. All well and good, except that he strikes me as something of an extrovert, while I’m a confirmed introvert.

So much for my plans to lie low and remain at least semi-anonymous during LCC ...