Category Archives: LJ

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: 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!

T minus five days until Dragon*Con.

dude_the is now here and his mad video editing skillz have been duly engaged making bumpers and clips for fosteronfilm‘s Indie Film Festival. Hubby is working on two computers simultaneously while Paul and I tappity away on our laptops.

Got geek?

I haven’t fully recovered from Tuesday’s loopy. Been experiencing sporadic communication fender-benders. So plez talk slow and use small words at me, K? Thx.

Insomnia plus Claritin plus dextroamphetamine and amphetamine salts and I feel decidedly loopy this morning. Wheee…

Hectic weekend. ‘Twas the hubby’s birthday on Saturday, also the last Dragon*Con 2009 Director’s Meeting. T minus 10 days. Head ‘splody now.

I was invited to do a cameo for an episode of the HG World: Original Zombie Horror Serial podcast. It’s a really well-produced show. Check it out! Listen for me in episode #2, “Born Down in a Dead Man’s Town,”as a newscaster.