Apropos of pretty much nothing, I gotta say that having joined G+ and all, my reaction is not “wean other social networks off & just use G+” so much as it is “I’m pretty sick of social networks & am not wildly inclined to use any of them anymore.” I’m finding that to be a rock and a hard place, though, professionally speaking. Between G+, Twitter & FB I’ve got somewhere in the region of 2500 followers (a fair percentage of whom, I’m sure, are repeat offenders, but many of…
NYCC
Ok, that’s one non-refundable plane ticket to New York purchased, so I guess I’ll be seeing y’all at Comic Con. I’m coming in Wednesday and leaving lateish Sunday night. Thus far Agrimony has dibs on one meal slot, and I figure my editor & agent (if she’s in town) get another. That leaves…how many? Several! Up for grabs! :)
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…or maybe I should just leave retelling fairy tales to Ursula, and go fling myself in a pit instead. (When I had read only the first half of the entry, I had been going to make an appendix to *this* entry saying “It’s utterly beside the point that I want to tell grown-up versions of fairy tales, dark and creepy if I can manage it, and Ursula is going for delightful and charming and for children, and it is also utterly beside the point that I can write charming childrens’…
too. many. projects.
Somehow my year-to-end project list looks something like this: – Book Race through ~50K on Walker Papers #8 – write 3 more Old Races short stories – write 1 Walker Papers short story (if you want to read it, join the mailing list) – go to New York Comic Con – Nanowrimo a book for little boys – finish “Easy Pickings” with Faith – re-revise ANGLES to agently commentary which is, oh, let’s call it 150K in the next 4 months. Which would be totally within the bounds of reason…
THE BIG BOOST
I bought an e-reader specifically so I could read this book. Seriously, I spent about $215, plus the other twenty bucks for the books, so I could read THE BIG BOOST. This is perhaps an indication of how much I wanted to read it. I must have read Daniel Keys Moran’s THE LAST DANCER the year it came out, 1993. That means I’ve been waiting pretty close to two decades to read the next book in the series. I re-read the first three books in the series and then forbade…