Still playing mad catch-up. Still sound like a chain-smoking toad. But I got fan mail yesterday, so it’s all good.
Y’know, writers are pretty simple folk. A few appreciate comments, indication that our work is actually being read by someone, and we’re happy. Well, I’m happy.
A bestseller and a movie deal would be way nice, don’t get me wrong, but encouraging words of appreciation are really soul-nourishing.
In all the Dragon*Con chaos, I forgot to mention that I sold “Mortal Clay, Stone Heart” to anthology The Dragon and the Stars (DAW Books), due out in 2010. Edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, it will feature Chinese themed stories by Chinese authors (who don’t live in China).
As I predicted, when we got home on Monday, there was great collapse. It wasn’t quite as bad as last year, whereupon dude_the, fosteronfilm, and I sprawled in the living room in post-battlefield attitudes of death and mayhem. But it was close.
My voice is still stripped, but I did manage to keep it until Monday, which is an improvement over previous years (please, please nobody phone me for a couple weeks, K?). And I opted not to go into work yesterday, and subsequently slept for something like 16 hours.
Now playing catch-up on all the post-convention correspondences, write-ups, reports, and sundry communications that I tabled until after Dragon*Con. If you sent me an email that you expect a reply to, please give me a couple more days to get caught up. Continue reading
Still wiped, but wanted folks to know that Escape Pod published “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” while I was at Dragon*Con (why do they always publish my stuff while I’m at D*C?). Lawrence Santoro did a simply fabulous reading of it! Go listen, yo. It’s free!
Yesterday, fosteronfilm, dude_the, and I were comatose for most of the day. We emerged briefly to get food and pick up Hobkin from his godmother, then returned to blissful unconsciousness.
It’s getting harder and taking longer to recover from D*C every year.
Back from Dragon*Con. Fun was had. Voice is stripped. My DD staff was awesome. Ahyicodae was sensational. More updates later. I sleep now.
D*C packing apocalypse. Shoe anarchy. Still clinging to hope that I’ll be on-site in a few hours out of pig-headed lunacy. Sigh. Typical.
Dragon*Con gah! But had to squee ’bout the fabulous production of my story “The End of the Universe” that’s now up at Drabblecast. Norm and his crew did it is an audio drama, and they did an awesome job! Go listen, yo!
Dragon*Con: tomorrow it begins.
So much yet to do, so little time, with so little sleep! Gonna have to take a half day off work today. Gah!
Got my AnthologyBuilder.com buttons for their Dragon*Con scavenger hunt in the mail the other day:
Collect buttons at Dragon*Con from the participating writers (Alethea Kontis, Eric Flint, James Maxey, Gray Rinehart, and me) and email badges@anthologybuilder.com with a photo of your button collection (or post it online and send a link to the AnthologyBuilder folks), and they’ll distribute prizes to the first 100 people who participate. The best prizes will go to photos that:
(1) Include multiple badges
(2) Include a costume
(3) Are unusually inventive
Folks can get my buttons by coming up to me at the panels I’m doing, catching me at Daily Dragon headquarters (Chicago in the Hyatt), or swinging by my signing on Saturday at 4PM in M301-M304 in the Marriott.
Anthologybuilder.com is a neat and innovative concept for both writers and readers. It allows writers to offer their previously published stories to readers who can select stories a la carte to create their own customized, unique anthologies in a beautiful, perfect-bound, 6×9 inch trade paperback. Shiny!
Trying to put together my Daily Dragon staffing schedule.
It’s a massive ole Gordian knot! Thought it’d be easier this year ’cause I took on a dedicated graveyard shift/delivery runner/gofer staff person…and yet. Having to resort to a spreadsheet for the first time since I started helming the DD.
Waaaah!
