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A miscellany!
- My flist is full of people posting about the lovely ReaderCon they had. I wouldn't have given up Pinewoods, but I'm still faintly envious! Next year, for real. (If it conflicts with Pinewoods again... well, we'll see, and I'll pine for what I'm missing either way.)
- Are any of you fans of Diane Duane's Middle Kingdoms series, aka the Door Into... books? (If you're not, and you like well-written epic fantasy featuring really cool magic, fascinatingly inhuman dragons, layered mythology, and bisexual polyamorous marriages of three-dimensionally human characters -- uh, except the inhuman ones -- then hie thee hence to pick up The Door Into Fire! It's out of print, so you might have some trouble finding the books, but they're well worth the trouble.)
Anyway, if you are a fan, and especially if you'd be interested in reading the long-awaited last book The Door Into Starlight, go check out Diane Duane's post on the subject. Not only does she provide a lot of perfectly reasonable insight into why she hasn't written it yet, but she's soliciting information on whether enough people would buy the latest book to make it worth publishing. So please, if you genuinely would be willing to pay for this book -- and heaven knows I would gleefully buy it in hardback, which I rarely do -- go read the post!
- It's hot here in Boston, guys. I know that much of the US has been dealing with these temperatures for days now; I know I have it better than many, in that I work in an air-conditioned building and my housemate has a window AC unit so I can take refuge in her room; I know other regions have temperatures like this on a regular basis. But I'm whiny anyway. I live in a place where I don't have to have air conditioning on purpose, here! And of course I keep wanting to walk or bike places, now that I would melt into a puddle if I tried it. Whine whine whine.
It's supposed to ease off come this weekend, at least. Fingers crossed!
- Cosplay ahoy! Now that Pinewoods is past, I've compared the number of weeks before Dragon*Con with the amount of work yet to do on my Sheik costume, and am having the usual genteel deadline panic. This weekend's plans include getting my tolerant housemates to make a plaster cast of my arm for armor fitting help, distressing fabric until it looks appropriately battered and aged, and doing a lot of futzing about with scraps of fabric. Soon I will also have to acquire a wig to abuse into shape. Should be fun!
I love cosplay because it's a game of sewing and problem-solving, and generally has a deadline to make sure I actually finish. Here's hoping I manage this year without too much eleventh-hour stuff.
I have a vague idea that there was more I meant to say, but I can't remember now. I'm sure I'll think of it right after I hit post.
This entry is also posted at http://genarti.dreamwidth.org/4539.html. You can comment on LJ or DW, whichever you like.
comments at DW.
- My flist is full of people posting about the lovely ReaderCon they had. I wouldn't have given up Pinewoods, but I'm still faintly envious! Next year, for real. (If it conflicts with Pinewoods again... well, we'll see, and I'll pine for what I'm missing either way.)
- Are any of you fans of Diane Duane's Middle Kingdoms series, aka the Door Into... books? (If you're not, and you like well-written epic fantasy featuring really cool magic, fascinatingly inhuman dragons, layered mythology, and bisexual polyamorous marriages of three-dimensionally human characters -- uh, except the inhuman ones -- then hie thee hence to pick up The Door Into Fire! It's out of print, so you might have some trouble finding the books, but they're well worth the trouble.)
Anyway, if you are a fan, and especially if you'd be interested in reading the long-awaited last book The Door Into Starlight, go check out Diane Duane's post on the subject. Not only does she provide a lot of perfectly reasonable insight into why she hasn't written it yet, but she's soliciting information on whether enough people would buy the latest book to make it worth publishing. So please, if you genuinely would be willing to pay for this book -- and heaven knows I would gleefully buy it in hardback, which I rarely do -- go read the post!
- It's hot here in Boston, guys. I know that much of the US has been dealing with these temperatures for days now; I know I have it better than many, in that I work in an air-conditioned building and my housemate has a window AC unit so I can take refuge in her room; I know other regions have temperatures like this on a regular basis. But I'm whiny anyway. I live in a place where I don't have to have air conditioning on purpose, here! And of course I keep wanting to walk or bike places, now that I would melt into a puddle if I tried it. Whine whine whine.
It's supposed to ease off come this weekend, at least. Fingers crossed!
- Cosplay ahoy! Now that Pinewoods is past, I've compared the number of weeks before Dragon*Con with the amount of work yet to do on my Sheik costume, and am having the usual genteel deadline panic. This weekend's plans include getting my tolerant housemates to make a plaster cast of my arm for armor fitting help, distressing fabric until it looks appropriately battered and aged, and doing a lot of futzing about with scraps of fabric. Soon I will also have to acquire a wig to abuse into shape. Should be fun!
I love cosplay because it's a game of sewing and problem-solving, and generally has a deadline to make sure I actually finish. Here's hoping I manage this year without too much eleventh-hour stuff.
I have a vague idea that there was more I meant to say, but I can't remember now. I'm sure I'll think of it right after I hit post.
This entry is also posted at http://genarti.dreamwidth.org/4539.html. You can comment on LJ or DW, whichever you like.
comments at DW.