We had a very nice snow this weekend, in that it dropped six inches on the ground, two on paved surfaces, was good for snowballs and snowmen, and hot chocolate and sledding, and then the day got warm and a lot of it went away.
I took a shot of a snowflake, seen above — it looked like a tiny little person hanging for dear life. I snapped the shot, and then my breath melted the icy tether holding it to the larger snowclump, and the little snowflake tumbled to the earth, where it was eaten by sharks.
Ice sharks.
Okay, I don’t know if there were ice sharks down there, I didn’t look.
WHATEVER.
Don’t @ me.
Anyway! What else is up.
I have a cold. So that’s nice. I mean, almost literally, it’s nice, because I guess it could’ve been the flu? I suspect I caught it from my six-year-old, who during dinner a few nights ago basically coughed on my food. He’s usually pretty good about controlling his aerosolized illness, but I dunno if the cough was a surprise or he was just like, “Fuck it, I’m sick, so you’re sick, *hackptoo*” but here we are, and now I’m sick.
So, to remind you, I’ll be at EMERALD CITY COMICCON starting next week. And that means it is time to reveal my schedule!
*pulls back curtain*
*blood and locusts*
Ha ha wrong curtain hold on
*pulls back different curtain*
*schedule is revealed!*
You can find a schedule for me here, but I don’t think it’s complete.
Here is a much better, more intimate look at my schedule.
*bats eyelashes*
*plays sex jazz*
Thursday, March 1
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
SIGNING
Location: PRH Booth #1610 (Level 4)
6:00 PM – 7:00? PM
OFF-SITE — signing and panel at Brick & Mortar Books in Redmond, WA, with Fonda Lee and Alex Marshall
Location: Brick & Mortar Books, 7430 164th Ave NE suite B105, Redmond, WA
Friday, March 2
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
PANEL: Pop Culture Throwdown
Me! Marko Kloos! Kevin Hearne! Cherie Priest! Mia Garcia! Django Wexler! Amy Bartol!
Location: WSCC 603
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
SIGNING
Location: Writers Block – Autographing Table?
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM
PANEL: The Universe of Star Wars
Me! Delilah S. Dawson! Amanda Cherry! EK Johnston! Kevin J. Anderson! And more.
Location: WSCC 611
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location: WSCC Room 3AB
(You should totally come to this! Pay in to charity, play games with a bunch of authors and creators. I’ll be running a game of Balderdash, baby. Old-school liary liar-faced game! Also because I’m way way behind on playing any modern board games! Shut up!)
Saturday, March 3
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PANEL: Star Wars Books
Me! Delilah Dawson! John Jackson Miller!
Location: WSCC 611
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM
POST-PANEL SIGNING
Location: Writers Block – Autographing Table?
Sunday March 4
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
SIGNING
Location: PRH Booth #1610 (Level 4)
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
PANEL: Writing the Future
Me! Jason Hough! Annalee Newitz! AdriAnne Strickland! Sylvain Neuvel! Michael Miller!
Location: WSCC 603
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
POST-PANEL SIGNING
Location: Writers Block – Autographing Table?
So, there you go. That’s my schedule.
After that’s over, I will be running a writing workshop for the Austin Romance Writers of America (ARWA!) on Saturday, the 24th.
Then it’s Raven Con and PHX Comic Fest and, you know, some other fun stuff.
See you on the flipswitch, booty-scooters. Is that the hip lingo? Are the kids saying that to one another? No? Shit.
Paula says:
That photo is incredible. <3
February 19, 2018 — 9:57 AM
terribleminds says:
Thanks!
February 19, 2018 — 10:24 AM
Tom Witherspoon says:
What, pray tell, is “sex jazz”? I thought I had heard most of the jazz sub-genres. Color me intrigued….
February 19, 2018 — 12:35 PM
Kari says:
Gorgeous snowflake gorgeosity. Camera not phone, right?
Also, booty-scooter is what we call Angus when his anal glands need expressing, so sure, it’s hip lingo if by hip you mean close to that portion of canine anatomy whatever doode.
February 19, 2018 — 1:57 PM
terribleminds says:
Yep! DSLR.
And don’t we all express our anal glands on the carpet?!
February 19, 2018 — 1:59 PM
Kari says:
How did you know my mother’s visiting right now?!?
February 19, 2018 — 8:45 PM
Toni says:
Ha!
February 25, 2018 — 3:38 PM
Deborah Makarios says:
Nothing wrong with a bit of Balderdash! You don’t even need the official game, just grab yourself a really good dictionary like the SOD (Shorter Oxford) and some writing materials and you’re away laughing.
February 19, 2018 — 4:18 PM
Stephen says:
Do you do fan hangout times at your cons? Like do we get a chance to buy you a beer? Asking for a friend who will be at Ravencon and feels like you inspires me I mean him
February 19, 2018 — 8:16 PM
terribleminds says:
It all kinda depends on the time and everything, though generally at cons I’m around to talk and such, regardless!
February 20, 2018 — 7:28 AM