A post about words.

[leahbobet]

Actually, in a few ways!

Most of the spare time around here in the past few weeks has gone towards the line edits for Above, which showed up before the holidays and are due in a couple weeks. It's reminding me a lot of cramming for exams: I wake up and shower and change into clean pajamas, and then sit at my desk for the next eight to ten hours drinking tea and eating takeout and shoving against the task at hand.

Some of the rest of it went to seeing Peter Watts, Caitlin Sweet, and Karin Lowachee read at the Chiaroscuro Reading Series on Tuesday night. This was fun. Many persons of quality were in attendance, including two of the ideomancer posse (Claire Humphrey and Michael Colangelo). While the venue (Augusta House) doesn't have all that much in the way of a beer selection, it has some incredible atmosphere and is a great room for giving a reading.

So it makes me pretty happy that I'm going to be reading at the next one, alongside Ed Greenwood, Michelle Sagara West, and Robert J. Sawyer.

I haven't actually ever given an outside-of-convention reading before, and I've never really given one in my home town. I'm still deciding what to read. There may be a poll in the near future.

This, though? I think it will be fun, and if you are a local sort I encourage you to come out and hang and introduce yourself.

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That being said, I should probably get back to cramming now. :p

Comments

[kiviuq.livejournal.com]

I will totally be there barring a blizzard!!! I wish we'd gotten to chat more that night, but it was great to see you. :)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yay! Was great to see you too -- hopefully we can catch up better at the next one. :)

[plunderpuss.livejournal.com]

So sad I will miss it!

Since it's unlikely I'll be in your hometown soon, at which cons could I hear you read?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh, hrm. Probably Readercon? And maybe World Fantasy might give me one this year. And I'm not at all sure if I'm making Worldcon this year; Dr. My Roommate has a Cunning Plan that would take us there, but I'm not sure if it's one of those plans we actually do.

What're you planning on this year for cons?

[plunderpuss.livejournal.com]

Fortunately I already paid for WFC before I got poor, and even though I'm in the hole from the dog surgery, I will probably go to WorldCon because all my friends are going, so I will have a super cheap share of road tripping + hotel. (I prefer sleeping on the floor, so I make an excellent fifth or sixth illegal roommate. hahaha) I'll use my birthday money to buy a membership.

I was sad I didn't get to meet you at WFC in 2009. If you're definitely attending in 2011, I will buy you a drink as well as attend your reading.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much definite. :) The only thing I have to sort out is where it fits in the budget.

And yay! I will buy you a drink in return!