Where to begin...
May. 27th, 2024 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfIt's late May and I already feel like this has been a year already. Last week's "fun" involved a Denial of Service attack on the Queen of Swords Press website. It took about 4 hours for me to get in and get it stopped because the flood of spam from a server in Moldova kept crashing things, but I did eventually get things locked down. Eventually, I'll fix the Contact Form so it works again, but I thought I'd give it a week or so for things to settle down. The rest of the week was less dramatic, but I'm already behind and scrambling to get caught up, so it didn't help. :-(
This weekend was mostly good. I miss the hell out of being at WisCon and it feels very weird to be in town. I had a lot of ouch (the weather has been exciting), but also a fun couple of short plays with Jody Wurl at the Crane Theater, a delightful trip to the Minnesota Streetcar Museum with Michael Merriam as part of my "do things I've never done locally plan," a lovely breakfast with Caroline Stevermer and a very nice hot beverage with Jennie Goloboy at a new-to-me coffee place. I also visited Jana and she basically told me to leave, so that was fun. She's getting on better with her PCA these days than me so I keep getting her checked on every week. Less frustrating for me and likely more useful for her.
Apart from that, it's all errands and terrifying meetings about Twin Cities Pride. I somehow missed the memo that it's now over 500k attendees and it will be our first year as a vendor. There's so much stuff to deal with! I'm a freaked. But that said, come see us in the Queer Writes tent in Loring Park next to the bridge to the Sculpture Garden! I will have books and such!
June also features a whole lot of other stuff (see pinned post above) so there will be other opportunities to see me and my authors. In other news, Kate Larking, who some of you know from Sirens Con days, has spun up her own marketing and publicity biz. I'm looking to bring her on to help me tackle some things I have dropped the ball on, like juicing up our backlist and getting things linked together more sensibly for cross promotion. Let me know if you need a contact for her - she also helps organize Kickstarters, coaches in person bookselling and sundry other related tasks. In addition to that, I'm applying for the Independent Book Publisher's Association Innovative Voices Program. It's a "leveling up" mentorship and grant program for indie publishers and I'm very pleased that Betsy Miller of Thinking Ink Press, one of last year's recipients, has agreed to recommend us. Now to come up with something more coherent than, "OMG! We're publishing the entire Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, plus a new novella this year!" to say about us.
Oh, and hey, the Pride StoryBundle launches on 5/31! Stay tuned!
As always, more soon.
This weekend was mostly good. I miss the hell out of being at WisCon and it feels very weird to be in town. I had a lot of ouch (the weather has been exciting), but also a fun couple of short plays with Jody Wurl at the Crane Theater, a delightful trip to the Minnesota Streetcar Museum with Michael Merriam as part of my "do things I've never done locally plan," a lovely breakfast with Caroline Stevermer and a very nice hot beverage with Jennie Goloboy at a new-to-me coffee place. I also visited Jana and she basically told me to leave, so that was fun. She's getting on better with her PCA these days than me so I keep getting her checked on every week. Less frustrating for me and likely more useful for her.
Apart from that, it's all errands and terrifying meetings about Twin Cities Pride. I somehow missed the memo that it's now over 500k attendees and it will be our first year as a vendor. There's so much stuff to deal with! I'm a freaked. But that said, come see us in the Queer Writes tent in Loring Park next to the bridge to the Sculpture Garden! I will have books and such!
June also features a whole lot of other stuff (see pinned post above) so there will be other opportunities to see me and my authors. In other news, Kate Larking, who some of you know from Sirens Con days, has spun up her own marketing and publicity biz. I'm looking to bring her on to help me tackle some things I have dropped the ball on, like juicing up our backlist and getting things linked together more sensibly for cross promotion. Let me know if you need a contact for her - she also helps organize Kickstarters, coaches in person bookselling and sundry other related tasks. In addition to that, I'm applying for the Independent Book Publisher's Association Innovative Voices Program. It's a "leveling up" mentorship and grant program for indie publishers and I'm very pleased that Betsy Miller of Thinking Ink Press, one of last year's recipients, has agreed to recommend us. Now to come up with something more coherent than, "OMG! We're publishing the entire Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, plus a new novella this year!" to say about us.
Oh, and hey, the Pride StoryBundle launches on 5/31! Stay tuned!
As always, more soon.