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Spring has sprung

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A friend of mine is organizing a steampunk festival in southeastern Massachusetts for Halloween weekend of this year. If you like steampunk, are free October 28th, and can make it to Attleboro, Massachusetts, I highly recommend you show up! It’s a free event and it’s shaping up to be a pretty awesome day. I’m on the board, but even if I weren’t, I would be all over this festival.

 

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I name my songs/albums based on whatever random word springs into my head when I’m saving the file.

Second bit of news: I’ve been playing around with making music and posting it to my Soundcloud page. I can’t remember if I’ve ever mentioned it on this blog before, but it’s a thing I do. I post new stuff up there every so often, and my most recent work, The Hunger, is my first piano composition. I’m quite proud of it. That one’s inspired by my current obsession, The Adventure Zone podcast, but all the others are just the result of noodling around in GarageBand.

 

 

 

Finally: I’ll be attending the Writing Excuses Workshop and Retreat again this year, since I couldn’t resist the lure of the Baltic Sea. I’m getting very excited about it. If you’ll be attending, let me know!

 

 

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WorldCon plans

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The Newport to Providence ferry, through a Prisma filter.

In two days I’ll be at my first ever WorldCon. It’s the first SFF con I’ve ever gone to, though not the first con by a long shot. I’ll be traveling with Aimee Ogden, who just sold three short stories last week, like a rock star, and who I totally won’t be killing and eating to absorb her powers.

I went through the WorldCon schedule and ended up choosing 83 things that I was interested in. They issue you a time-turner when you pick up your badge, right? That’s going to be a thing? There’s absolutely no way to choose between How Do Fungi Turn Plants into Zombies and Futuristic Crime Investigations and Earth. We’re Stuck Here! and Pacing the Novel and the Star Trek promenade and Lightning Talks, for example, and all of those are just on Wednesday at 3pm.

Anyway, if you plan to be there, drop me a line! Perhaps we’ll cross paths at some point. Watch this space in a week for a post-con recap and, if I get around to it, perhaps even a travel vlog.