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lydamorehouseEven though it bummed me out a bit, I took care of completely cancelling WisCON for myself. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naomikritzer I even managed to find a desperate soul in need of a WisCON membership, so I officially transferred that over this morning. The only things left are getting a couple of copies of Resurrection Code signed and ready to go down to be given away -- one to the Whedonista folks for their party, and the other to the winner of the bid of my con-or-bust donation. I'm hoping that after a couple of lightsaber battles with Mason (who is still off until the end of Memorial Day weekend), we can head over to Uncles to pick up copies (I've been out of my author's copies for some time.)
I feel really very organized for someone not going anywhere special.
In the good news column, my dad called me out of the blue this morning. Seems that one of the things he's doing to occupy himself while recouperating is catching up on all his journal reading. My dad is a retired psychology professor who writes all sorts of stuff that's way above my pay grade, including this book, which is a standard text in those sorts of classes. At any rate, he was reading one of the journals in the UK that he recently published part 2 of a two part article, and he discovered in the editoral that he'd received a LOT of positive response to part 1 and they were, in fact, proposing to do an entire themed issue on the stuff he was talking about.
I suppose thrat's like writing a short story for Interzone that's so awesome people want to write what amounts to fanfic/other stories exploring similar themes and the editor decides to devote an entire issue to that.
Pretty cool.
But, more to the point, my dad sounded utterly tickled about it. This is good news on a lot of levels. For instance, I know that he's got a lot of the same insecurities that I have, which is to say that we both want to be outstanding in our field, but worry that no one has ever heard of us and, if they do, that our ideas aren't terribly original or noteworthy. On top of that, I think we both fret that an extended absence from the field will equal becoming no longer relevant. I'm glad that my dad is getting hard evidence that's simply not true. Because that sort of thing bouys the spirits, and, no matter what, he could use a bit of that.
Anyway, I need to get some writing done at some point. I should go battle the forces of the evil Jedi and get to that.
Oh, and speaking of writing, it looks like an e-book for Resurrection Code is in the works. Fingers crossed!
naomikritzer I even managed to find a desperate soul in need of a WisCON membership, so I officially transferred that over this morning. The only things left are getting a couple of copies of Resurrection Code signed and ready to go down to be given away -- one to the Whedonista folks for their party, and the other to the winner of the bid of my con-or-bust donation. I'm hoping that after a couple of lightsaber battles with Mason (who is still off until the end of Memorial Day weekend), we can head over to Uncles to pick up copies (I've been out of my author's copies for some time.)I feel really very organized for someone not going anywhere special.
In the good news column, my dad called me out of the blue this morning. Seems that one of the things he's doing to occupy himself while recouperating is catching up on all his journal reading. My dad is a retired psychology professor who writes all sorts of stuff that's way above my pay grade, including this book, which is a standard text in those sorts of classes. At any rate, he was reading one of the journals in the UK that he recently published part 2 of a two part article, and he discovered in the editoral that he'd received a LOT of positive response to part 1 and they were, in fact, proposing to do an entire themed issue on the stuff he was talking about.
I suppose thrat's like writing a short story for Interzone that's so awesome people want to write what amounts to fanfic/other stories exploring similar themes and the editor decides to devote an entire issue to that.
Pretty cool.
But, more to the point, my dad sounded utterly tickled about it. This is good news on a lot of levels. For instance, I know that he's got a lot of the same insecurities that I have, which is to say that we both want to be outstanding in our field, but worry that no one has ever heard of us and, if they do, that our ideas aren't terribly original or noteworthy. On top of that, I think we both fret that an extended absence from the field will equal becoming no longer relevant. I'm glad that my dad is getting hard evidence that's simply not true. Because that sort of thing bouys the spirits, and, no matter what, he could use a bit of that.
Anyway, I need to get some writing done at some point. I should go battle the forces of the evil Jedi and get to that.
Oh, and speaking of writing, it looks like an e-book for Resurrection Code is in the works. Fingers crossed!
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Date: 2011-05-26 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-27 01:34 pm (UTC)But, hey, I'm going to contact you privately. We should hang out!!