Eastercon anticipation and nerves
Thanks so much to everybody who commented on my last entry and/or signal-boosted my double book-birthday around the internet! I appreciate you guys SO MUCH. And oh, please do keep those photos coming in, if any of you see either the Kat paperback or the Renegade hardcover in your local bookstores! Every picture makes me so, so happy.
Life's pretty much back to normal at this point, as we've even finished up the leftovers of Publication Day Strudel. (Mmmmm...) Not quite back to normal, though: tomorrow we're heading to Eastercon! Patrick and I will be juggling childcare throughout the con, so we may not often be seen there together, but we will both be there, along with MrD.
If you are at Eastercon, please come say hi! But you may need to wave or say my name loudly, if my last Eastercon (in 2010) is anything to go by - last time, during my child-free times, I tended to move at a quick clip and be a little tired/abstracted to the point of not noticing that I was hurrying past people I knew and wanted to see! Sigh. I'd love to say that things will be different this time...but you know, I can't make any promises.
So: DO say my name loudly enough to break through my daze, if you think I should have noticed you and didn't, okay? Even if I look like I'm thinking hard about something else, I'll still be happy to be interrupted. (Unless, of course, I'm in the middle of actively dealing with a toddler meltdown, in which case please politely pretend that you can't see a thing!)
I'm not taking part in any of the signing sessions, but I will be on a panel on Monday at noon, "The Fan That Books Built". The amazing Jo Walton (one of my very favorite writers!), Clare Brialey, Lal and I will be talking about how the books we devoured as kids turned us into the people we are as adults. It should be a really fun session, and I hope there'll be lots of audience participation, too.
If you have a copy of either of my books that you want signed, please feel free to bring it to that panel! And I'd love to see any of you guys there just to say hi.
This month I am wired awfully tightly over various professional deadlines, and to be honest, I'm a little nervous about how Eastercon will go with a three-year-old (even a lovely, mostly very well-behaved and charming three-year-old like MrD). Also, my CFS has not been great lately, which makes me more nervous...but still, I really and truly cannot wait.
I can't wait to be surrounded by other writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy. I can't wait to be surrounded by my people. And I know that no matter how much any con has ever knocked me out, it's always repaid the price a thousand times over in creative stimulation and sheer fun.
(Plus, those huge dealers' rooms full of books!!!! Ohhhhh....) (OK, I will stop salivating now.)
For those of you who've been to cons: which ones are your favorites?
Life's pretty much back to normal at this point, as we've even finished up the leftovers of Publication Day Strudel. (Mmmmm...) Not quite back to normal, though: tomorrow we're heading to Eastercon! Patrick and I will be juggling childcare throughout the con, so we may not often be seen there together, but we will both be there, along with MrD.
If you are at Eastercon, please come say hi! But you may need to wave or say my name loudly, if my last Eastercon (in 2010) is anything to go by - last time, during my child-free times, I tended to move at a quick clip and be a little tired/abstracted to the point of not noticing that I was hurrying past people I knew and wanted to see! Sigh. I'd love to say that things will be different this time...but you know, I can't make any promises.
So: DO say my name loudly enough to break through my daze, if you think I should have noticed you and didn't, okay? Even if I look like I'm thinking hard about something else, I'll still be happy to be interrupted. (Unless, of course, I'm in the middle of actively dealing with a toddler meltdown, in which case please politely pretend that you can't see a thing!)
I'm not taking part in any of the signing sessions, but I will be on a panel on Monday at noon, "The Fan That Books Built". The amazing Jo Walton (one of my very favorite writers!), Clare Brialey, Lal and I will be talking about how the books we devoured as kids turned us into the people we are as adults. It should be a really fun session, and I hope there'll be lots of audience participation, too.
If you have a copy of either of my books that you want signed, please feel free to bring it to that panel! And I'd love to see any of you guys there just to say hi.
This month I am wired awfully tightly over various professional deadlines, and to be honest, I'm a little nervous about how Eastercon will go with a three-year-old (even a lovely, mostly very well-behaved and charming three-year-old like MrD). Also, my CFS has not been great lately, which makes me more nervous...but still, I really and truly cannot wait.
I can't wait to be surrounded by other writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy. I can't wait to be surrounded by my people. And I know that no matter how much any con has ever knocked me out, it's always repaid the price a thousand times over in creative stimulation and sheer fun.
(Plus, those huge dealers' rooms full of books!!!! Ohhhhh....) (OK, I will stop salivating now.)
For those of you who've been to cons: which ones are your favorites?