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GO TO MY BLOG INSTEAD!
I'm not using LJ anymore, and since I am pubishing under a pen name, that's what my current blog uses:
Carmen's Page
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Balticon 50!
So, it's been a while. But Balticon celebrated it's 50th anniversary, so I wanted to post some photos.
First, here's grandmaster Larry Niven! I got to shake his hand.
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ABNA Contest
Well, it's only a small step but I entered a novel in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and it made the first round cut. The book is called Turnabout, and I tried entering it in the YA category last year and didn't make the cut. I honed the blurb (the first round is judged solely on the 300-word blurb) and switched to the science fiction ( Read more... ) -
The Big Apple
Last week I was in New York city on business, and I managed to take time out for a sunset cruise of New York harbor, including (of course) a swing by Ellis Island and its most famous landmark. My phone doesn't take great photos, but here is my best shot of Lady Liberty. I had never sen her in person before. She looks darn good for her age!
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I'm on Fire (so to speak)
I now have a Kindle Fire. I bought it more as a tablet than as an ereader, as I prefer reading on my Kindle Paperwhite. It's funny how we get used to convenience. I own a laptop that doesn't weigh more than a few pounds, but when I travel, lugging it around seems like a lot of work. I bought the Fire mostly for travelling, so I can browse the web, ( Read more... ) -
Balticon 2013
With my husband still recovering from surgery, we did a very abbreviated Balticon this year, only one day. In fact, I went to exactly one panel, which was on self-publishing. The panel was pretty good as it talked about very specific things like tools to use for conversion and how much artists get paid for covers (very little to lots, depnding on ( Read more... ) -
Our WFC 2013 memberships are sold!
Well, as soon as the membership rolls closed, our two memberships to the 2013 World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK went like hotcakes. Why do we say that? Did hotcakes always sell well? I don't see why. I can't recall the last time I bought any ( Read more... ) -
Anyone want to make a Brighton beach memory?
No, that's not the Taj Mahal. It's the Royal Pavilion in Brighton (UK), which it looks like I will not be seeing this year. Is anyone planning to attend the 2013 World Fantasy Convention in Brighton? Our plans have changed, and we now have two memberships that we would like to sell for what we paid for them. Since we signed on at WFC San Diego, we ( Read more... ) -
Handling rejection
I got a rejection letter from DAW Books today. DAW is unusual in that they will accept manuscripts directly from authors, without an agent sending them-or at least they used to; I'm not positive that's still the case, because I haven't sent them a book in at least six years. That's because I got an agent about six years ago, and while she has not ( Read more... ) -
I'm back and I'm in print!
Gosh, it has been ages since I posted here. The LJ interface looks radically different, and I hope I can remember/figure out what to do ( Read more... )