Next weekend I will be heading off to MystiCon, in Roanoke, Virginia, where I'll be a Guest of Honor. A new con for me, and a new part of the country (it's been on my schedule since 2013 ( Read more... )

Off to Washington tomorrow morning.  See you all at Capclave.

For those of you who were not able to come to San Diego for Comicon... or get into Hall H for the GAME OF THRONES panel... here's the video that kicked off the proceedings, a tribute to all those we have loved (or not) and lost during the first three seasons of the show.

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Seen all together like that, it does make me seem rather a bloody bastard, ( Read more... )

We're off to the airport in a couple of hours, on our way to Chicago for worldcon ( Read more... )

So... I have already posted my schedule for the worldcon in Chicago (see below), but I neglected to mention that the next con on my schedule is actually our hometown convention, Bubonicon, down the road in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Land o' the Flea and Home o' the Plague, as con mascot Perry Rodent will be glad to tell you ( Read more... )

... for two whole days ( Read more... )

I was supposed to make an appearance yesterday at a fan festival in Brazil, taking questions from my Brazilian readers via the wonders of the internet.

Well, I did appear, kinda sorta:


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This one is for my readers in the Bay Area.

((Uh... that would be San Francisco Bay. There are others. As a Bayonne boy, I grew up between two bays. But never mind)).

Hie thee to Wondercon. There are wonders there, at the HBO booth

If you skipped Days of Ice and Fire in the Twin Cities weekend before last -- or if you were one of the folks who tried to get there and got caught up in that horrendous Saturday snowstorm -- the good folks at Fantasy Flight Games have posted a report and some video highlights of the event. You can find them here ( Read more... )

Just stumbled across these on YouTube, and thought some of you whackaroonies might get a hoot out of them.

Here's me having entirely too much fun at Semana Negra two years ago:

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And here's me still having fun at Semana Negra, and doing a panel with Scott Bakker and Paco Taibo II:

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Semana Negra -- for those who don't know -- is an annual " ( Read more... )