All tea is contained in LJ

Anyone have any recommendations for a herbal, decaf something from Teavana? Despite having fifteen thousand and four kinds of tea, I've noticed my decaf options are looking a bit limited of late, and I've got the chance to get in on a Teavana order this week. No rooibos please, we're British already well-stocked with that.

Worldcon: the Scheduling

I appear to have a Worldcon final schedule. It is thus!


Fri 11:00 AM, P-Autographs
Leah Bobet Signing
Duration: 0:30 hrs:min
Wherein I sign things. I am honestly not sure what I'll sign aside from the few anthologies I have stories in, but you know, if you want to bring spare napkins or attractive boychests or such, I'm game.

Fri 2:00 PM, P-512AE
Author Reading: Elaine Isaak, Joshua Palmatier, Leah Bobet, Robert Wiersema
Duration: 1:30 hrs:min

Fri 5:00 PM, P-512CG
What Fans don't Understand about Publishing 2: Beth Meacham, Eleanor Wood, Gordon Van Gelder, Leah Bobet, Bob Neilson (M), Brian Hades
Duration: 1:30 hrs:min
"Distribution and marketing" is all the description that's on this one; I expect they want me here in my capacity as a bookstore person.

Sat 10:00 AM, P-512CG
How to Bluff SFnal Linguistics: Lawrence M. Schoen (M), Leah Bobet, Tony Pi, Geoff Hart
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
How to make the language sound plausible, and the reasoning behind it.

Sat 2:00 PM, P-513B
Online Magazines Represented HERE: A Good Market Session: Diane Walton, Jude-Marie Green (M), Leah Bobet, Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace.
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
The online publication is alive and well and thriving. Editors and writers talk about electronic markets.

Sun 10:00 PM, P-522B
Young Turks: Colin Harvey (M), Derwin Mak, Leah Bobet, Matthew Rotundo, Maura McHugh, Peter Atwood
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
Writers who've recently begun selling stories and novels talk about how they've arrived on their particular beachhead.

Mon 1:00 PM, D-Royer
Writing Workshop A: Leah Bobet, Richard Chwedyk
Duration: 2:00 hrs:min
Critique session for previously submitted manuscripts

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Notable things:

1) After all the angsting we did about it, we are not in fact sharing a reading with Guy Kay. Perhaps he heard us and ran. *g*

2) All these panels are well within my areas of competence. I shouldn't have to do major pre-research for any of them, which is nice.

3) I am really looking forward to busting out some Linguist Kung Fu with wistling and klingonguy.

4) I get the distinct feeling that I will have to decide what panels and readings and such I want to go to well in advance, rather than just wandering from thing to thing like I usually do. And that I may have to set my lunch dates and such in advance or at least very early in the con itself.

4b) I'm realizing that aside from being sort of stretched between several social groups (the Home Team coming up from Toronto, who I'm travelling with in awesome road-trip fashion; the Away Team, aka the Badpoets/OWW crowd, who I'm rooming with; and various other people I haven't met in person or don't get to see much, but know from the internets), and already one or two launch party obligations, I'm going to be at a Worldcon. O dear. I'm not at all going to get to make quality time with everyone I want to see. This might get ugly.

4c) ...so this is what it's like to do a big con as, well, a full-fledged professional grownup person. Oh.

4d) Now I'm glad I booked an extra day off work after the con to recover.

5) So, if I'm reading with two second-world fantasy authors and a horror author instead of three second-world fantasy authors, that gives me some more freedom of material. Anything you guys want to hear particularly, if you're planning to attend?

It's Sunday, so...

There is new Shadow Unit.

Go read that while I finish fixing up this scene. *g*

Things I learned about my book while revising, by Leah, Age 27 and two months and a bit:

Two years and three months after I first set her to paper, I finally have found out Ariel's real name.

Huh.

The other thing...well, matociquala sums it up better.

(And no, this isn't the right icon for this book. But for this post? It kinda is.)