As I mentioned before, I've been putting together a night of genre theater for five months, and on Monday, it happened. There were no major disasters, I gave a better performance than I'd ever given in rehearsals, the audience laughed and applauded madly throughout the show, people actually got the subtext of my play, and it was basically something ( Read more... )

Tonight, I went to a John Scalzi event at Borderlands! There was John Scalzi, talking about geekdom, reading about aliens, answering endless questions about the Old Man's War movie, answering MY question about balancing humor and heartbreak, being all-around entertaining.


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Yesterday, my short play, Origin Stories, was read for an audience for the very first time at Borderlands Cafe as part of a preview reading for The Pub from Another World, the night of theater I've been working on for the last five months.

It's been hard work! Look, I did a whole interview about it!But back to me and my play. Um, people really ( Read more... )

I basically gave my entire tax refund to the Veronica Mars movie, but I'm so goddamn fucking excited because after weeks and weeks of grumbling that I'd missed out on tickets to the L.A. afterparty and cursing the fleeting moments when I saw a spot open up, I gave up hope a few hours before the end and changed my pledge and then FIVE MINUTES LATER ( Read more... )

The Hugo nominees have been announced, and I have three-THREE!-friends nominated!

Seanan McGuire, making Hugo history with FIVE nominations in one year, for Novel, Novella, Novelette (also making Hugo history for the first self-published story), Novelette, and Fancast.

Mark Oshiro, for Fan Writer.

Julia Rios, for Semiprozine ( Read more... )

I can barely stay awake during the day because I am so busy working and producing a night of genre theater, and I am way behind on making LJ posts, so you may not know that MY BROTHER GOT MARRIED THREE WEEKS AGO.


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I am selecting plays for a night of genre theater to produce in May, directing five short play podcasts this weekend, acting in a staged reading at the end of the month, brainstorming a Pint Sized submission for April, and writing a short play for the SF Olympians Festival in November. I maaaaaaay be doing too much theater.

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Since I just watched Mark read "Valedictorian" and I am about to start The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, I decided it was high time to gush about N.K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology, WHICH YOU SHOULD ALL TOTALLY READ BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME. Also nominate The Killing Moon for a Hugo. I can't wait to fanboy the crap out of N.K. Jemisin at Comic-Con. See, I ( Read more... )

So I completely forgot to post about meeting seawench after...however many years we have known each other. This is the magic of LiveJournal!


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I've been a Hey Ocean! fan since November 2008. The bassist is my friend's brother, and she convinced me to come see them, and I had a great time, despite getting vodka in my hair (you should read that post). Do I get to claim some sort of superiority for loving them before the bronies discovered them? Because I do.

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