Somewhere along the line Ted and I developed enough opinions about P-Con that this year we ended up on the committee to help run it. In fact, apparently I ended up the Co-Chair on the committee, which I discovered on Saturday morning when Pádraig introduced me as such. :) This year’s P-Con was the first run in association with the Irish Writers’ Centre, where the con was held. We had NO IDEA how that was going to be recieved, because normally cons are held at hotels and normally there’s a…
forget today. this *month* would be good.
– write con report – write ideas for PConX while the iron is hot – oh, hell, do the MOUNTAIN ECHOES AFS – send books to irish cousin – send books to american cousins – laundry – dishes – groceries – go to bed early. for the love of god, go to bed early. – continue work on webpage – write the PRSI letter – finish the tree house – blog about gwen – answer jenn’s email – email betsy – plane tickets to eastercon – answer email about eastercon…
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It is five hours to the book launch/signing. I have baked lemon cupcakes, brownie cupcakes, and about fourteen dozen cookies, with more to go. Next time I get the bright idea to make up 4 batches of cookie dough to refrigerate & bake the next day, I need to remember to roll the dough into tubes before I put it in the fridge. That would’ve saved me a whoooooooole lot of aggravation. I posted on Twitter to say I was down to the last 3 eggs, which I assumed meant…
Guest Blogger: Gabra Zackman!
Over the years I’ve had lots and lots of people tell me how much they love Gabra Zackman, the reader for most of the Walker Papers audio books. Gabra emailed me around a year ago and we’ve chatted back and forth in email (and in Skype, recently! SO COOL!) a bit, and I thought, hey! I should ask if she’d do a guest blog sometime! So I did, and she said yes! And so in honor of the audio version of RAVEN CALLS being released today, I’m posting the blog…
speaking of baking :)
I stopped at the butcher’s yesterday to get a batch of 18 small eggs, and yer man there said to me, “You know we’ve 20 large ones too?” I allowed as how I did know that, but I preferred the smaller ones for baking. He said, “Oh, do ye bake a lot, do ye?” And I allowed as how I did. “Maybe you’ll make us a cake sometime!” said he. “Sure,” I said. “I always like an excuse to bake for someone else. Any kind in particular?” “Oh no,” says…