I've Been to a Marvelous Party
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layangabi...Which is why I've been incognito for the past couple of weeks on the internet. >.< Hi everybody. How have you all been?
I have not...really been to a marvelous party for three straight weeks, but I have had several marvelous things happen. Possibly things that merit their own posts.
1) I have a short story coming out soon, "The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende" via USOK. It's...OMG, you guys. It's a story that grew while I was writing "The History of the Enkanta" during Nano 2009. It's about matriarchal insect societies who are more than what they are, of people under Spanish rule, and the compromises and alliances they made to survive. It will have its own artwork --- the prospect of which still blows my mind and which I cannot wait to see.
2) I went to Aussiecon. With my girlfriend. YES I KNOW THAT WAS WEEKS AGO. D:
And oh my god you guys. I wish I had been able to write during the con, that I had had the energy to blog when we came stumbling home after the long, glorious days. Because (some weirdness with bookseller aside) it was wonderful. We met Cat Valente, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, Seanen McGuire, people who we've adored from afar. We attended panels on feminism in fantasy, cyberpunk and all of its cousins and and *squeeful noises.* Did I not tell you that several items on this entry merited their own posts? (Possibly their own subposts. Especially the hung Hugos. Kim Stanley Robinson, you are lovely man and a beautiful writer but you are a sadistic bastard D:).
3) We are picking up our girls on Thursday <3 <3 <3 \o/ I made their dry mix for them this morning. It has rat cubes, oats, pepitas, almonds, spelt, pearled barley and buckwheat, lentils and brown rice. I am looking at the plastic container Briony has gotten for it, and I am all :D :D :D
I have not...really been to a marvelous party for three straight weeks, but I have had several marvelous things happen. Possibly things that merit their own posts.
1) I have a short story coming out soon, "The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende" via USOK. It's...OMG, you guys. It's a story that grew while I was writing "The History of the Enkanta" during Nano 2009. It's about matriarchal insect societies who are more than what they are, of people under Spanish rule, and the compromises and alliances they made to survive. It will have its own artwork --- the prospect of which still blows my mind and which I cannot wait to see.
2) I went to Aussiecon. With my girlfriend. YES I KNOW THAT WAS WEEKS AGO. D:
And oh my god you guys. I wish I had been able to write during the con, that I had had the energy to blog when we came stumbling home after the long, glorious days. Because (some weirdness with bookseller aside) it was wonderful. We met Cat Valente, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, Seanen McGuire, people who we've adored from afar. We attended panels on feminism in fantasy, cyberpunk and all of its cousins and and *squeeful noises.* Did I not tell you that several items on this entry merited their own posts? (Possibly their own subposts. Especially the hung Hugos. Kim Stanley Robinson, you are lovely man and a beautiful writer but you are a sadistic bastard D:).
3) We are picking up our girls on Thursday <3 <3 <3 \o/ I made their dry mix for them this morning. It has rat cubes, oats, pepitas, almonds, spelt, pearled barley and buckwheat, lentils and brown rice. I am looking at the plastic container Briony has gotten for it, and I am all :D :D :D
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Date: 2010-09-25 12:50 pm (UTC)MASSIVE *\0/* FOR YOU! That is so exciting, and I can't wait to see how it came out after all the hard work you've done on it. And you know how much I loved that world you built in 2009. And you get art? That is amazing! Wow!
I'm glad you had a good time at Aussie Con - I heard good reports from others, too.
Ooh, ratty girls are coming! When they're settled and happy, will you post a photo? (If it won't upset them, of course.)
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Date: 2010-09-26 12:07 am (UTC)XD But of course we are posting photos! Briony would not have it otherwise. (She is dying to do shots of them everywhere in the house---everywhere in the house we feel safe letting set foot in. :D
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Date: 2010-09-26 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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