Readercon was great, though much less with the panels and much more with the social this year. Bought many, many books just the same.

Gave Friday-morning brunch ride to an overcrowded car, including maureenmcq and her lovely husband only to return in time for her kaffeklatch. Stayed after for blackholly's, had a fabulous time and also met Laura Anne Gilman. Saw mroctober, ( Read more... )

Congratulations to yuki_onna on winning the Tiptree for The Orphans Tales Vol. 1: In the Night Garden!!! I played s00j's "For the Girl in the Garden" on my way to work to celebrate. There is yet another reason to go to Wiscon ( Read more... )

Well, it was my first Arisia, and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it were my last. We had fun, doubly so as I managed to drag Doyle out to the con and we met interesting people, but there are only so many ways the Universe has to scream "not your kind of party!" before I wrap my head around that.

( Quick Rundown. )

This week I have:

1. Gotten a card from lepapillon (thank you!).
2. Sent out nearly 50 holiday cards (family, friends, marathon).
3. Experienced that car-you-were-riding-in-got-hit-from-behind feeling.
4. Saw yuki_onna and nihilistic_kid and buymeaclue5. Got a massage to relive back pain ( Read more... )

I have a presentation later today, but I'm so burned out on it I want to finish, go have a stiff drink, and crawl under my covers and sleep. Semester's almost over, and it's taken a lot in terms of energy.

There are many good things, though. On Saturday, yuki_onna and s00j had their reading/concert thingie at Pandemonium Books & Games. So we met up for ( Read more... )

So. There has been a recent "meme" of sorts about the all the cool people's blogs about "how to write a novel." (In case you don't read, it can be found here, here, here, here, and here, at the very least and in the order I saw them.) And really, that's great.

I've already (technically) written a novel, though. And while I don't think I'm cool ( Read more... )