Thanks to the fabulous Jason Sanford for dropping me a line letting me know that “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” is now out in the French anthology Ténèbres 2010! Continue reading
Back at ye olde day job this week, which means I’m officially resurrected from Dragon*Con. Eying my to-do list—which really ought to have decreased after the convention and instead seems to have gotten bigger—and dwelling upon the virtues of being corpsified.
In a nutshell, Dragon*Con ran me down with a semi, backed up and rolled over me again, and then got out and stepped on me. And yet I had fun, due almost totally to the fabulous folks I got to hang with. My Daily Dragon staff and my DC2K writers group, of which there was significant overlap, did a fabulous job keeping me sane, giggling, and on a sugar high. I got to gab briefly with cmpriest and daveybeauchamp, touch base with stephenhsegal, and finally, finally spend some face time with mouseferatu.
Y’know, I do wonder about folks who have only ever interacted with me at Dragon*Con, whether they think I’m just a hyper, scatterbrained spaz all the time. daveybeauchamp and I have had several conversations now about how different our personalities are at conventions versus how we our in our everyday lives. I’m quiet, shy, and coherent usually. Honest!
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Was slayed by baby vampires yesterday at Dragon*Con:
Arose from the dead today to the realization that Dragon*Con is over.
Had much fun. Had less sleep than I’ve ever had at a D*C (which is saying something). Did not win a Hugo but did get a lovely prezzie—gift certificates to Spa Sydell—from my D*C co-workers which made me go all smoffy and waaah-you-guys-loveyouall-waah!
More complete post to come.
Looong day and it’s only Thursday! Dragon*Con is *so* going to kick my ass this year.
Packing: haphazard. Sleep: insufficient. To-do list: sentient and growing.
And I’m off to Dragon*Con. The boys are still sleeping and will join me later, but I need to get on-site to finish the Thursday issue and start the print run.
Charge!
Unable to comprehend how Dragon*Con can be tomorrow. Haven’t even started packing and various logistics and complexities are piling up into a tragic dark comedy.
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Just got an email from Vera of Norilana that the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be using Returning My Sister’s Face this fall for their English 243: Introduction to Literature by Women course!
And we’re counting down to Dragon*Con. Updated the Daily Dragon website for 2010; sent out the second official staff email to my fantastic, fabulous, and forbearing DD worker bees; revved up the @Daily_Dragon Twitter engine; and am generally rapid-firing hamsters like a madwoman.
There will be no sleep. There will be no sanity. There will be only Zuul.
T minus 14 days.
Just got a note from Mur Lafferty letting me know that Escape Pod wants to buy a reprint of my cyberpunk Hades and Persephone re-telling, “Only Springtime When She’s Gone.” Woot!
Woohoo! My Droid just got the Android 2.2 OTA update. Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but at long last, I has Froyo! Next quandary, to install the Beta Flash app or wait for it to hit Android Market…
