Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Ludo, "All the Stars in Texas."

Weekend bullet points, because otherwise, madness.

1. The Roseville event was awesome, and the store now has autographed copies of all five of my currently published books. A Local Habitation is naturally in the shortest supply, so if you'd been planning to swing by the store and pick up a set, you should probably do so soon, before everything goes away. Thanks to Alex, for having me, and to Sunil, for bringing me wonderful goodies from England and giving me hugs.

2. In case you missed the announcement, An Artificial Night is in the BSC Review Book Tournament Finals, and Toby could use your vote. Also, once she has conclusively CRUSHED HER OPPONENT, I can stop posting about this, thus freeing up your valuable display space for other topics, like the ever-popular "complaining about my cats."

3. I really enjoyed the newest Disney Channel Original Movie, Lemonade Mouth. I did not enjoy them presenting the first hour of the movie sans commercials without warning me first, as it meant I had not brought a soda, or a blanket, or the paperwork I needed to finish during the movie, before sitting down on the couch. I am told the book is better than the movie. I must now read the book.

4. Served at yesterday's brunch: potato cake. It's cake, made of potatoes, bacon fat, and bacon. HOW CAN THIS BE? The spirit of sweetmusic_27 hovered over my shoulder and watched me eat it, and I now need the recipe, because I must cook it for her. It is a moral imperative.

5. I visited the Sacramento Shirt Shop, and plans for Wicked Girls shirts are now proceeding apace. I should be posting about it soon. Girl-cut shirts are available up to 2x, and we'll be able to do standard-cut shirts up to 5x, as needed, for no additional cost. Baby shirts are a different setup, and so would be a different order. Details will be forthcoming; I don't have them just yet.

6. I am solidly on target to hit 100,000 words on Blackout by Saturday. This is both incredibly exciting and incredibly stressful, since it means I'm coming closer and closer to the point where I have to stop setting things up in favor of knocking everything down. Considering what I have left to do in this volume, I'm starting to worry that the first draft may need more trimming than I thought. Since I am a perennial trimmer (better a late trim than a panicked plumping), this is okay, it's just surprising.

7. Zombies are love.

8. The Cartoon Network schedule for the rest of 2011 has been released, and Tower Prep is not represented. Here's hoping this is either a glitch, or they're about to announce moving Tower Prep to SyFy, where it could find an enormous audience and live forever.

9. I will probably celebrate hitting 100,000 words on Blackout by cleaning as much of my room as is physically possible and then writing the rest of "Rat-Catcher" in one feverish sprint. Don't judge me, this is how writers party hard.

10. Doctor Who comes back on Saturday. Saturday can't come fast enough.
Tags: an artificial night, blackout, food, geekiness, good things, in the wild, social life, toby daye, too much tv, writing, zombies
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I feel your Tower Prep pain.

biomekanic

April 18 2011, 17:33:23 UTC 6 years ago

The rat-shit bastards (not that I have a strong opinion or anything) over at Cartoon Network also canned Sym-Bionic Titan not because it had rating, but because it wasn't toyetic enough. This is a show where the giant robot has a new weapon almost every week, there's a Monster of the Week, numerous bad guys, and ARGH!

There's pretty much a 0 chance of anyone else picking it up, since the creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, has packed up and moved over to Sony to work on a new project.

Re: I feel your Tower Prep pain.

mephron

April 18 2011, 20:14:14 UTC 6 years ago

As a fan of Megas XLR I feel your pain.

I also want DVDs.

Re: I feel your Tower Prep pain.

biomekanic

April 18 2011, 20:41:43 UTC 6 years ago

I also want DVDs.

I want to know who at Cartoon Network has the hate for Giant Robots?

So far, the only giant robot thing they've done right is getting another season of Big-O, and even then it went all NGE on us at the end.

Re: I feel your Tower Prep pain.

seanan_mcguire

April 20 2011, 00:41:07 UTC 6 years ago

That sucks.