Catching up on the October whirlwind
Oct. 19th, 2020 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfThis last weekend was the double header of MultiverseCon and the Twin Cities Book Festival. The latter was more of a "mention we have a dealer's table and a sale going on" while the former involved watch parties for our pre-recorded panels, doing a Kaffeeklatsch, going to a bunch of other things and running some speed mentoring sessions. The panels will go up at Multiverse's YouTube channel soon so everyone gets to play! It was a fun time and it was good to see some friends and meet some new folks. TC Book Fest was pretty dead from a vendor standpoint; they are going to keep plugging the exhibitors for a few more weeks so hopefully that'll pick up a bit. Queen of Swords Press is also a vendor at Geek Girl Con through the rest of the month so hey, book sale!
Coming up this Saturday (10/24), I'll be on a steampunk panel for CONvergence Online with Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Michael Merriam and Tyler Tork. Everybody else will be reading their own work and I'll be reading from Alex Acks's stories and talking about publishing steampunk. (And if you're at MileHiCon this weekend, look for Alex there too!). And on Sunday, October 25th, I'm teaching "Crimson Peaks and Menacing Mansions: Writing Gothic Horror" at the Academy Rambo; there are still some slots open if you're interested or know someone who is.
Other than that, I've been doing wacky things like going on a 3 mile hike at the Minnesota Arboretum with a friend, going on walks around the neighborhood with another friend, watching Ripper Street, which I have just discovered, and The Frankenstein Chronicles, reading submissions, working on projects and doing my class homework. So far, so good. Also, an announcement for those of you who have been patiently waiting for me to talk about the sequel to Silver Moon, an ANNOUNCEMENT:
Coming up this Saturday (10/24), I'll be on a steampunk panel for CONvergence Online with Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Michael Merriam and Tyler Tork. Everybody else will be reading their own work and I'll be reading from Alex Acks's stories and talking about publishing steampunk. (And if you're at MileHiCon this weekend, look for Alex there too!). And on Sunday, October 25th, I'm teaching "Crimson Peaks and Menacing Mansions: Writing Gothic Horror" at the Academy Rambo; there are still some slots open if you're interested or know someone who is.
Other than that, I've been doing wacky things like going on a 3 mile hike at the Minnesota Arboretum with a friend, going on walks around the neighborhood with another friend, watching Ripper Street, which I have just discovered, and The Frankenstein Chronicles, reading submissions, working on projects and doing my class homework. So far, so good. Also, an announcement for those of you who have been patiently waiting for me to talk about the sequel to Silver Moon, an ANNOUNCEMENT:
Blood Moon is a couple of thousand words from completion (of this draft). Artist Terry Roy has already created a spiffy front cover design. My plan is to finish it this month, spend November and December doing rewrites, edits and writing publicity material so that I can get it out the door for a March release. It takes a couple of months to get books out through channels where they'll get notices, hence the delay. But soooonnnn!
Onward and upward! More updates soon.
Onward and upward! More updates soon.