![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerFive updates make a post . . . .
1) The Chains and Memory Kickstarter is a bit over halfway to the first stretch goal. The pace of progress has (unsurprisingly) slowed down; I welcome any signal boosting, and/or suggestions for other things I could do to spread the word.
2) While Mary and I were on tour earlier this month, Tor sent a camera crew to film our Portland event and interview us afterward. It was a fascinating experience; this wasn’t the “sit and have a conversation in front of the camera” kind of thing, but rather raw material for the following video:
If you’d like a sense of what our events were like, check it out!
3) Driftwood fans take note: I’ve sold the audio rights for “The Ascent of Unreason” to Podcastle.
4) My SF Novelists post for this month was “Pleaser Don’t Doed Thising”, in which I take aim at Bad Fantasy Latin, Bad Fantasy Japanese, and other such linguistic sins.
5) WisCon! I went. It was a thing.
Sorry, that’s just the tiredness talking. Going to WisCon was a good idea; going right after being on tour, less so. I feel like I didn’t take full advantage of the experience, partly because I was going easy on myself, partly because I’m new to the con’s culture and therefore didn’t know in advance about things like the Floomp. It was fun, though: lots of interesting people, some good panels (and some I really wish had dug further into their topics), some &@#$! awesome GoH speeches, etc. The good news is, now I know what to expect and can get more out of it in future years. Will I be back in 2015? Dunno; I’ll have to look at my schedule. But I do intend to be back eventually.
Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2014-05-29 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-29 07:43 pm (UTC)I'm glad you liked Wiscon. I usually go, but skipped it this year to go camping.
P.
no subject
Date: 2014-05-29 08:23 pm (UTC)See https://sites.google.com/site/thefloomp/home/floomp-mission-statement for more. I always stop by, even though I am terrible at dancing and the room is often noisier than I can stand for long, because I really love the energy.
no subject
Date: 2014-05-29 08:28 pm (UTC)(Introductions, restaurant suggestions, etc available if they're of use to you; this was my fifth(?) WisCon so I have finally figured some of these things out.)
no subject
Date: 2014-05-29 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 01:30 pm (UTC)"Please Don't Doed Thising" is a fantastic post. It's also when I am really, really glad that my college friends are classicists--because I studied just enough Latin to attempt getting away with it, and I have people who can tell me just how very wrong (or right) I've been.
no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 06:33 pm (UTC)Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed that Tor sends me back there next year.
no subject
Date: 2014-05-30 06:36 pm (UTC)As for the Latin, my sense is that the stuff which makes my eyes bleed isn't created by the people like you and me, who actually studied if, if only for a little while. It's created by the people who haven't studied Latin at all, and don't know/don't care that those endings are actually significant. It's one thing to screw up your grammar, but quite another to not even be attempting to get it right.