On the road
First, a teeny plug: my SF(ish) short story Hetsie's Wonders appears in this month's issue of Crossed Genres. It's about 8000 words.
I'm presently in Chicago at Wizard World Comicon; I've been on the go for a little over a week now, visiting friends in various cities in the Midwest, plus a side trip to Tulsa (... look, when you've just flown down from Alaska, what's another thousand miles?) to see family. I'll be heading back home on Thursday -- I hope; wildfire smoke in the Interior has been so dense that they've been intermittently grounding flights or diverting them to Anchorage.
I'm presently at the hotel after spending the morning walking around at the con -- which was really as much time as it took to run up to the limit of what I wanted to spend, and see the people I wanted to see. (Oh, I could definitely visit a lot more -- it's so nice to see the Midwest comics folks again! -- but I don't want to distract people who are actually working.) I'm sharing a hotel room with Jane Irwin and husband Paul Sizer; I've also been able to visit a bit with Tim Broderick (the first web cartoonist I ever met, I think, and a hell of a nice guy) and Dirk Tiede from the old Modern Tales bunch, and I finally got to meet uber-talented Spike in person for the first time! I'll head back to the con later this afternoon, but in the meantime, I'm enjoying a little bit of downtime for websurfing, writing and blog updating. (The hotel wireless is a bit flaky, though. *crosses fingers, presses "post"*)
(This entry is also posted at http://layla.dreamwidth.org/163510.html.)
I'm presently in Chicago at Wizard World Comicon; I've been on the go for a little over a week now, visiting friends in various cities in the Midwest, plus a side trip to Tulsa (... look, when you've just flown down from Alaska, what's another thousand miles?) to see family. I'll be heading back home on Thursday -- I hope; wildfire smoke in the Interior has been so dense that they've been intermittently grounding flights or diverting them to Anchorage.
I'm presently at the hotel after spending the morning walking around at the con -- which was really as much time as it took to run up to the limit of what I wanted to spend, and see the people I wanted to see. (Oh, I could definitely visit a lot more -- it's so nice to see the Midwest comics folks again! -- but I don't want to distract people who are actually working.) I'm sharing a hotel room with Jane Irwin and husband Paul Sizer; I've also been able to visit a bit with Tim Broderick (the first web cartoonist I ever met, I think, and a hell of a nice guy) and Dirk Tiede from the old Modern Tales bunch, and I finally got to meet uber-talented Spike in person for the first time! I'll head back to the con later this afternoon, but in the meantime, I'm enjoying a little bit of downtime for websurfing, writing and blog updating. (The hotel wireless is a bit flaky, though. *crosses fingers, presses "post"*)
(This entry is also posted at http://layla.dreamwidth.org/163510.html.)