Monthly Archives: May 2009

Ten things I loved about Wiscon

May 30, 2009 – 12:15 pm

(I meant to put this up right after the con, but … oh, well, better late than never.)
More or less in chronological order:
1. Sitting in the Governor’s Club Thursday night listening to Ellen Klages tell stories and having chocolate martinis and flourless chocolate cake.
2. Friday’s panel on “Cultural Appropriation,” which was excellent.
3. The dealer’s room, [...]

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Memo to self

May 30, 2009 – 8:58 am

Do not go out of town for a week and FORGET TO TAKE THE NEW PASSWORD for your shiny new blog.

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I heart my laptop

May 17, 2009 – 9:17 am

The new modem is now working, but the wireless still isn’t. I probably should have expected it-it’s one of those corollaries of Murphy’s Law: The week before you leave home on a trip, everything that can go wrong will.
But I am going to ignore my chore list today, because the weather is beautiful. If it [...]

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It never rains but it pours

May 13, 2009 – 1:43 pm

Yesterday morning, my modem died the ultimate death. Dead modems turn out to be dreadfully hard to diagnose, or at least, that’s what I conclude after spending two hours on the phone to tech support trying to determine why my Internet connection was unstable. Add another hour to run out and get a new one [...]

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From the mailbag, #1

May 11, 2009 – 9:33 am

And now for a quick look through the mailbag (fixing the comments took longer than expected, but they finally seem to be working, yay!). Some excerpts that seem like a good idea to answer here:
From several people: “Will you be autographing/appearing in X area soon?”
Answer: If it’s not listed on the web site under “News [...]

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Moving right along

May 8, 2009 – 9:45 pm

So the first round of publicity appearances is over; I have two weeks now before Wiscon and the side trip to deal with pressing family business.
When you’re working on a book, two weeks is not as much time as it sounds. I’m hoping to use the time to get back some of the momentum on [...]

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The world is the size of a pea

May 1, 2009 – 8:03 pm

As you may have noticed, I was in Chicago earlier this week, doing publicity  for Thirteenth Child. It was a little strange; I haven’t really done the school-visits-and-bookstore-signings thing in my home town before. Oh, I’ve signed at bookstores, but it’s usually been me calling them up and saying “Hey, I’m going to be in [...]

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