sometimes you've got to put your shoulder to the door
exanimateI've also gotten the CEM of Karen Memory turned around and back to Tor, so all the hard parts of that are done. My only remaining duty is the proofs, and the advance reader copies should be out before long.
And as for me, I am stressed out and overwhelmed and completely freaking out about the amount of travel and conventions and writing left in 2014. So, because I have something going on every single weekend between now and the end of August, and because I need to the reassurance of a nice list I can cross stuff off of, I am reposting my honeydew list.
travel and appearances 2014:
Scandinavian Micro-Tour!
July 11-13, 2014: Finncon: Jyväskylä, Finland (Guest of Honor with special guest Scott Lynch)
Then between July 16th and 22nd, Scott and I will be visiting
- SF Bokhandeln Stockholm (July 16th)
- SF Bokhandeln Gothenberg (July 18th)
- SF Bokhandeln Malmo (July 19th)
- Fantask Copenhagen (July 22nd)
August 8-10, 2014: Nine Worlds, London, England
August 14-17, 2014: Worldcon: London, England
October 31-November 2, 2014: ICON: Iowa City, Iowa (Guest of Honor with Scott)
November 14-16, 2014: Windycon: Lombard, Illinois (Guest of Honor with Squeecast)
2014:
Tiptree reading and judging"You've Never Seen Everything": 30 June 2014
"Terroir": 1 August 2014
Storium World: 25 August 2014
An Apprentice to Elves: Autumn 2014
"Gallowglas": 31 December 2014
2015+
Eternal Sky #4
Ancestral Night
Eternal Sky #5
Untitled Space Opera
Eternal Sky #6
No fixed deadline:
Bard troll story
Smile (unless its name is actually Salt Water)
Unsuitable Metal
Patience and Fortitude
Untitled Gangland Urban Fantasy That Keeps Bugging Me
"A Time to Reap"
"Periastron"
"Posthumous Jonson"
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
"Coronado"
"Flush"
"Steel"
And the first lines meme, because it makes me feel a little more in control of what's in my in box:
No one is making me say this.
"A Time to Reap"
Krissy paused in the wings stage left, in air thick with the smell of dust, imagining the applause.
An Apprentice to Elves
Tin laced her fingers together across her gravid belly and frowned along her nose at the feeble human child.
Patience and Fortitude
Nothing made Matthew hate himself more than waiting for the elevator.
Smile
Pewter scraped across the black wave-caps of the Atlantic on the morning Carl Hughes learned how his lover had died.
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
"We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you'd flunked Algebra."
"Steel"
Johnny Backus was a daywalker. Johnny Backus was a vampire. Johnny Backus was a friend of mine.
"Cecily"
When Cecily was three years old, she announced that she was "stared of the scares," meaning the basement stairs. It stuck. Especially since Cecily wasn't scared--or stared--of almost anything else.
"Posthumous Jonson"
I loved you not.
"Periastron"
There are no unremarkable worlds.
"Gallowglas"
As the innate perversity of the universe would have it, Officer Jericho was up to her elbows in the guts of a roasted pumpkin as big as her chest when her pager shrilled.
"Flush"
The universe will always need plumbers.
Good gravy, I am out of spoons.
If this was a page in a notebook instead of an lj entry, however, I would draw little hearts around the further Eternal Sky numbers.
I mean, not just them. But.
<3
Re: <3
I take it going to the outlet mall and buying a box of spoons is out of the question?
Patience and Fortitude
Nothing made Matthew hate himself more than waiting for the elevator.
This got an actual out-loud squee, that it will eventually exist. (I'm not up-to-date on a lot of things, so didn't realize it's, someday, going to be in my hands.)
*wry grin*
There may be a Kickstarter.
There may be a glinda, taking her fancy bottle containing pennies to the local Coinstar, so she can contribute to said Kickstarter. *grin*
(seriously; love those books. Re-read all four a couple-three months ago...)
Oh, well. By then I'll have forgotten what the first three were about so I can read all six one right after the other. Goals. I haz em.
[I can well believe you're overwhelmed. Thinking good thoughts for you!]
Good luck, safe travels, and take care of yourself!
Flush
And in Finland, if you can, travel northward thru the trees and rocks and report back about the landscape, please. Never made it out of Helsinki once upon a time.
Edited at 2014-06-25 02:37 pm (UTC)
A suggestion for Finncon