As I posted about a few weeks ago, I’m in WorldCon in Chicago right now. No real time to post or update the blog. I left my laptop at home, and posting on the iPad just isn’t as much fun. I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you all on Tuesday! (Unless you’re here in Chicago, in which case, why not come by and say hello? My schedule’s in that earlier post I just linked to.)
(Sorry for the pic. Sometimes I just feel a bit like I’m shilling my book a little too heavily. I hope that’s not the case.) I went to the New Vineyard Public Library last night, and I was blown away by what an awesome crowd they had. Realize this is a town of about 600 people or so. The public library isn’t exactly NYPL proportions. But I’m all for supporting the local libraries, and I was excited for the visit, no matter how many people showed up. I got there and the parking lot was full, and so was the
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At the end of this month, I’ll be trekking out to Worldcon in Chicago. What is Worldcon? The World Science Fiction Convention. Tons of sci-fi/fantasy fans from all walks of life. Movies, television, writing–you name it. It’s not quite at the Comic Con level, but it’s up there. I’ve been to it once before, when it was in LA a few years ago. (Has it really been six years? I think it might have . . . ) Back then, I carpooled out from Utah in a caravan. My car had Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Janci Patterson, and . .
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I had my first author visit yesterday afternoon–taking a trip to speak with a class of sixth graders at the local middle school library. I have to admit it: I was nervous. Some of this had to do with having never done one of these before. Some of it had to do with the audience. I haven’t been back to middle school once since I left it as a student, and I wondered if the less-than-thrilling time I had a student would continue on as an adult. (No–I wasn’t really terrified or anything, but I think the inner-middle-school kid in
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So I’m on a panel tomorrow at Maine Reading Roundup–a conference for Maine children/YA librarians. My panel is entitled New Voices from Maine, and it’s highlighting four authors who live in Maine. Somewhere along the way, I got it into my head that it was highlighting four NEW authors. I also didn’t think this was a very big conference. I didn’t think this based on any actual facts I had read or research I had done. I just stupidly assumed, and I didn’t pay too much attention to it. So when an email started going between conference organizers and the
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