It rains. Â And is chilly. Â I am not feeling the urge to haul down to the farmer’s market this morning. Â In fact, my only urge is to sit on the sofa, nom toast-and-coffee, and work on the Hard-Deadline Client Project. I suppose that’s not a bad goal, actually. Meanwhile, I have this odd feeling that […]
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The contract for Gin & Tonic #3-#4 arrived in my inbox, and has been gone over. I will say that reading the marked-up pdf on my iPad mini was more enjoyable than trying to wrangle the legal-size paper Simon & Schuster still uses. Â Anyway, it reminded me that #3 is due in SEPTEMBER, not October
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Post-convention introvert crash: when even picking up the phone to order food delivery is too much interaction with other people. Due to various programming-related SNAFUs, this Lunacon was…slightly disorganized (programming was only finalized the Thursay before, and many of us didn’t even get our schedule until Friday night or Saturday morning). Plus, attendance was clearly
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Thanks to the offices of a good friend who -despite gas rationing and shortages- was still willing to drive me to the airport at oh ack thirty, I made my flight with a minimum of stress. And we apparently had not a tailwind but a shake-your-tailwind, because we beat the predicted arrival time by a
TourKornetsky launches with some velocity… Read More »
I will be out as L.A. Kornetsky, supporting the new mystery series, but most of the bookstores have said they’re willing to order the fantasy novels on request, too (and Mysterious Galaxy, of course, will Have All). You can also pre-order signed copies, if you can’t make it to a signing… Signing: Seattle Mystery Bookshop (Seattle, WA)
Updated: the West Coast Mystery Tour (November) for COLLARED Read More »
The Baltimore Book Festival features hundreds of appearances by local, celebrity and nationally known authors, book signings, more than 100 exhibitors and booksellers, nonstop readings on multiple stages, cooking demos by top chefs, poetry readings, workshops, panel discussions, walking tours, storytellers and hands-on projects for kids, live music, and a delicious variety of food, beer
The Baltimore Book Festival, and my part in it. Read More »
And this must be my Lunacon schedule… Friday: Meet the Pros (aka “How are you? Sit down, let’s catch up!” Feel free to say hi even if we’ve never met..!) 8:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday: • Which eReader is Right for You? 13:00 – 14:00, Westchester Ballroom A2 • Ecology of Fantasy Worlds 17:00 – 18:00,
If it’s Spring, it must be Lunacon… Read More »
My two panels both went quite well, with a lot of laughter and some insights on why we super the natural, and why cities are so fertile for fiction, and good audience participation, and Sharon Lee almost being et by her chair (more on that later). Then my signing, which was busy for about 15
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Woke up remarkably late (7:30), made coffee, ate some home-made lemon pound cake, and did some revision work on DRAGON JUSTICE. This is an interesting revision, in that the color and details all work, but part of the plot is undergoing change, for various reasons. It’s a slow, careful slog, to make sure everything is
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Linky Things: It’s Friday, so you know what that means: Self-publish? Big Six? Something Else? Practical Meerkat has her say, in week 45. My Kickstarter project, a “prequel” novella set in the universe of The Vineart War, hit 51% funded in the first week!  I’ve started writing – I can’t help myself – so I
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