Monthly Archives: October 2003

Success!

After long hours of design, construction, painting, assembling, and stocking, our booth is up at the Salon Occulte.

And it ROCKS!

If someone gets a digital shot of it, I’ll post it in all its 16′ x 20′, freestanding secret-garden-in-fall-foliage glory. Seriously, it’s the most impressive home-away-from-home I’ve ever seen on the festival circuit. We were freaking out other exhibitors during set-up yesterday. And sure, there’s that aspect which is kind of neat, but really, we’re just in this for lots of fun. And publicity. And networking. Breaking even would be nice too. Fun most of all, though. Definitely.

I am so lucky to freelance for such a cool place, with such cool people, and get the chance to play like this. Really, it feels like we made a grown-up fort or clubhouse or something. It comes down in three days, but till then, we get to play!

Did I mention that we get to dress up?

I Lied

Okay, so I was wrong about the vanishing thing. I worked late on the publishing stuff last night, and I needed to be online for it, so I posted a few times.

The cool part is that I finished around eleven, when my husband arrived home to switch on the TV and discovered, completely by accident, the very first episode of Angel, season five. Swoon! I have a new TV date!

Confirmed Insane

Okay, I re-activated my NaNo account, thereby confirming my insanity. (For the non-initiates, NaNo is shorthand for NaNoWriMo, which in turn is short for National Novel Writing Month.)

And what’s with all these people with titles, for heaven’s sake? Good goddess! I mean, really Tal – Squirrelman? (What scares me more is that he told me this morning that he had a plot this time. I fear for his sanity. But then again, it’s all about accidental quality, right, Tal?)

I could go the easy way and write the sequel to the 2002 NaNo triumph known as And By Many Other Names, or I could plunge into something new and discover as I go. Somehow, I feel that having a plot before I begin is cheating, for some inane reason. Personally, I’m looking forward to Ceri’s ever-evolving naming adventure – it’s a new title every day!

I will no doubt change my mind in the thirty days which remain between myself and the start line. If, that is, I’m allowed a spare moment to think about November along the way.

Coming Soon To A Mailbox Near You

My contract with the hitherto unnamed American Publisher is in the mail.

What? Oh, that sound? It’s my Ego tap-dancing joyously to the tune of “I told you it was real”, as performed by my SuperEgo.

When I have it in my hands, signed and returned, All Will Be Revealed. Just like the penultimate song in a Savoy operetta. (The ultimate song is, of course, the finale, which is just a rehash of the major themes previously heard during the show.)

Be Advised…

Just a quick note to say that I’m going to vanish for a bit. We’re doing a huge esoteric expo this weekend, and as of today my life belongs to it. Simultaneously, I’m doing another “need by tomorrow” project for the US publisher (who will be mailing a contract to me this week, I hear), as well as publicising an author visit scheduled for next Wednesday. You might hear from me on Monday, but I devoutly hope that I will be asleep.

Enjoy the first weekend of October. Did you remember to say, “White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits”?