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still afraid of my stilt pants1. Cartoonists! Bid on the chance to illustrate a Swordspoint comic script by Ellen Kushner. It’s part of the Live Long and Marry fandom fundraiser in support of marriage equality. If I could draw, you can bet I’d be bidding.
2. Read Nicola Griffith’s essay, “Identity and SF,” just posted to her website.
3. When I blogged about the WFMU book, I noted that I had not actually listened to the station yet. I have begun to remedy that criminal lack, most often via selections from the archives of The Speakeasy with Dorian Devins. Great interviews, with an eclectic selection of guests. Go, listen.
4. Apparently the guy next to me at the coffeeshop has a horse’s whinny as his computer’s alert sound. Time to put on my headphones.
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…but what I really want to do right now is point you all toward the Eggcorn Database.
My favorite so far: mindgrain.
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Conferences bring out both the extrovert and introvert sides of my personality, sometimes in rapid succession. Here in Anaheim I’ve spent a lot of time ‘on’: the panel about teens in your branch library, the YA author ’speed-dating’ event — both of which I was so pleased to be able to be part of — and in the meetings, meetings, meetings. (I’m pleased to be in them, too. Honest.) I’ve met great new people and reconnected with some of the friends I only see twice a year. I got to be part of a video (yikes).
On Monday night, my plan was to hear the Printz speeches and attend the reception afterwards. But I could feel it coming over me as soon as I went into the auditorium and sat, not with friends, but by myself near the back: the feeling that I’d need, soon, to retreat. I listened, and I thought, and as the applause for Geraldine McCaughrean was dying down, I walked quickly out of that room and back to my hotel to write. Not just this.
Later, after a little arm-twisting via text message, I went out again — more excellent time with friends — then back to the room, but still wound up. Turned on the television. “The History Boys” was just starting. Gorgeous. Very smart. Very clear that it was originally a play. Very glad that it happened to be on.
Then it was three-thirty, and really, really, really, time to sleep.
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calmAnaheim, here I come! As usual, my conference will be a mix of librarial and authorial. Two highlights:
Saturday June 28th, from 1:30-3:30 pm: I’m on a panel — “Teens at Your Branch Library: From Trauma to Triumph?” at the Anaheim Marriott, Platinum 3/4 (Spoiler: Yes to triumph.)
Sunday June 29th, from 9-10 am: I’m one of the featured authors at the Young Adult Author Coffee Klatch at the Hilton Anaheim, California Pavillion B.
Otherwise I will mostly be at YALSA programs & meetings. If you’re reading this and we haven’t met in real life, please say hi and introduce yourself! And if we do know each other, I’m looking forward to seeing you!
Also: if I actually had an “author hat” and a “librarian hat”, what do you think either/both of them would look like?
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