With WorldCon bearing down on us like a freight train, there is packing to be done, panel preparation to be considered, and travel details to be finalised. Despite all of that, Gary and I found a moment to record the latest episode. As always, we hope you enjoy it!
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Thursday
Thirteen days till I fly to Sydney and I’m finally getting to focus on it, having cleared the decks. Marianne has been an enormous help, doing the bulk of the clerical work to help get more than four dozen writers payments out this week. We’ve been fortunate enough to sell Russian and Polish editions of Swords and Dark Magic and Wings of Fire, and Under My Hat payments arrived, so there was a lot to send out and I wanted to be sure it went out pre-WorldCon. Â Some writers are actually in all three books, so lots of careful checking and doublechecking.
We’re going out for dinner on Friday, but Saturday will be all about getting clothes and papers sorted. I’ll start the physical packing come Monday or Tuesday. It’s my preference to leave a suitcase on the floor of my office and just toss things in there as they occur to me. This trip is going to be a real adventure. I need some downtime to de-stress, so I hope it will provide that, and it means seeing some dear friends in Sydney, San Francisco and Reno. Gary and I are going to podcast like maniacs, and I’m hoping we’ll have new t-shirts ready for that.
There’s a lot of other stuff. I’m reading a new novel I can’t really name, but am enjoying a great deal, and just got another in the email last night. Some cool stuff! More posting soon.
Monday morning
Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything much of substance here. I put it down to being busy and also being stumped. I know I need to completely re-design this place so it makes sense. I need to shift the podcast exclusively over to Podbean, and I will do that at some point later in the year. I also need to work out how best to represent my books and editing work, and how to separate that from any personal blogging I may do. Soon. Well, not soon really. Reno is soon. Anything else will come later.
What have I been up to lately, you ask? Well, apart from suffering from acute day job madness and a series of small maladies, mostly reading and working. All of the work on Under My Hat is pretty much done, and I’m now turning my attention to Edge of Infinity. I am also trying to work out what’s happening with two of my other projects, both of which I’m unsure about. I am working to delivering the next year’s best, which is contracted for, on schedule, but I need to determine what’s happening with it before I progress with it too much further. Same with Eclipse Five. In related news, I quietly cancelled Cyberpunk. My thanks for everyone’s feedback/input, but in the end I couldn’t quite make it fly.
Oh, I should add a thank you to the World Fantasy Awards judges. I’m delighted Swords and Dark Magic is nominated, and hope to be in San Diego for the convention. As I write the likelihood of that is good, though it is by no means certain. We’re trying to plan a quite expensive family trip to visit relatives in New York. If that happens, then I shall be at WFC. If not, I’ll be looking to re-sell a membership, probably not long after returning from Reno. I think that’s unlikely though.