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Busy busy busy busy oooooo cake.

It's official; convention season is starting. I'm in the process of getting ready for Marcon. Kate and I are on a Thursday morning flight so early that it's effectively a Wednesday night flight, which is always fun, and will either result in my having my usual weird mid-air dreams or in my getting a lot of work done. The jury is still out on which that's going to be. We're coming back to California on Monday.

The following Saturday (June 5th), I'll be appearing at the Borders Books and Music in Pleasant Hill, California. This is my first-ever Borders event. The Saturday after that (June 12th), I'll be at SF in SF with Deborah Grabien. This is my first-ever SF in SF. Sensing a trend yet?

Somewhere in June, I have to cram in a few rehearsals with Paul Kwinn, my partner in crime, because 4th of July weekend is the combined Westercon/Conchord. I'm Westercon's Music Guest of Honor, and Conchord's Guest of Honor (Paul is the Conchord Toastmaster), and I guess that means we shouldn't suck. July 10th, I'm with Jennifer Brozek at Third Place Books in Seattle; July 17th, I'm with Jennifer Brozek at Borderlands Books in San Francisco. The weekend after that is the San Diego International Comic Convention, which is going to be huge and exhausting, as always, and the weekend after that is Spocon, in Spokane, Washington, where I'm going to be their Music Guest of Honor. (Tanya Huff is their Writer GoH. Urban Fantasy Mafia in the house!)

August is Australia. And the Campbell Awards. And the twitching.

Somewhere in there, I need to finish The Brightest Fell and make some serious headway on Blackout, since they have, y'know, due dates. I only have five more Sparrow Hill Road stories to write, which is a good thing, but they're some of the most important in the series, which is less good. So if I seem a little hyper in the weeks to come, it's just because I have replaced my blood with embalming fluid and espresso.

Whee! Convention season is fun!

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seanan_mcguire

May 24 2010, 18:18:47 UTC 7 years ago

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I'll see you at NYCC!

May 25 2010, 14:59:31 UTC 7 years ago

Transit is hard.

bigherman

May 24 2010, 18:31:54 UTC 7 years ago

Forget that, try my bed sometime for weird dreams. Last night? I was a snake princess, but only of one species, but it was the best species of all, so that was ok. But then I had to marry the snake prince and that was not ok. But then I was a shark in the ocean for two years (yes, I remember having that distinct thought as I was dragged out of the water, that I had been in there for two years and couldn't be expected to remember how to be human again), and that was ok. And then I was in high school again and a mad, evil scientist and boy was I going to win the science fair against my arch-rival, the red-headed Kate (actually my best friend in real life in elementary school) wearing my evil black suede stiletto boots.

Many overnight guests, even people that say they never dream, have had similarly epic dreams not typical for them. Of course, my boyfriend always dreams crazy when he's with me no matter where we sleep, so maybe it's me and not the bed. I feel a study coming on...

May 25 2010, 14:59:41 UTC 7 years ago

...wow. Okay, your dreams win.

kyburg

May 24 2010, 18:33:43 UTC 7 years ago

Yikes, yikes, yikes. That's just craaaaazy.

September contains Yom Kippur, the one day in the whole year where I have a paid day off that the kid is in preschool and fella is at work.

Yes, I am looking forward to September. There shall be a September, and it will be glorious. Promise.

Until then, yikes girl.

May 25 2010, 15:00:36 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah, well.

I drink a lot of soda.

spectralbovine

May 24 2010, 18:33:59 UTC 7 years ago

The following Saturday (June 5th), I'll be appearing at the Borders Books and Music in Pleasant Hill, California. This is my first-ever Borders event.
Er, what about Comic-Con?

The Saturday after that (June 12th), I'll be at SF in SF with Deborah Grabien.
Oh, neat, I know her! Heh, the Advance Reading Schedule has "Saturday June 12th: Deborah Grabien & ??" You are ??!!

I don't know if I'll be able to make those, but I'm sure you'll be awesome. Read a lot! You're good at it!

May 25 2010, 15:05:07 UTC 7 years ago

That...I...DAMN YOUR FOUL LOGIC.

I am, in fact, ??. It's a living.

mephron

May 24 2010, 18:43:33 UTC 7 years ago

Well, I know where I'll be on July 10!

(Moving to Seattle in mid-June means trying to find candy corn.)

May 25 2010, 15:05:15 UTC 7 years ago

Yay!

tikiera

May 24 2010, 19:11:00 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah! Conchord! I am going!

May 25 2010, 15:05:25 UTC 7 years ago

dormouse_in_tea

May 25 2010, 01:12:00 UTC 7 years ago

. . . I am now utterly exhausted. Dayum. Please do not die.

May 25 2010, 15:05:35 UTC 7 years ago

I'll work on that.

espressosnail

May 25 2010, 01:39:09 UTC 7 years ago

It's so cool that you're going to Marcon! I can't wait to go.
I just started reading FEED, so far it's really good. I also enjoyed Rosemary and Rue and have the second of those books in my "waiting to be read" pile.