Updates

Well, the flights and hotels are booked, and I registered for Can*Con.

The Can*Con trip will be the book launch tour for The Sum of Us and includes a launch at the Merrill in Toronto October 11, and the launch at Can*Con in Ottawa October 13 – 15. I hope to be on programming there. Will be great!

The Halcon trip, Sept 22-24 is to attend the Aurora awards, but I haven’t bought a membership yet, as it looks more like a media/costuming/gaming con and there’s no information yet on programming (and won’t be until August). Also, the weekend passes are sold out, so I might just do a Saturday (though there are only a few of those left, so I should decide). The other option is to do Barcon, which might work out the best.

Got to see Rob, Adrienne and a bunch of Calgary folk, as well as meet some new writers at the Rocky Mountain Writers’ Retreat. Great fun and very productive–revised a short story.

Novel is due this week. Just doing the final read-through. There will still be edits after the publisher gets his hands on it, of course, but I want it to be the best I can make it right now.

So, my fourth Aurora nomination–this one as editor. Strangers Among Us is up for Best Related Work. Some stiff competition. Four out of six short stories nominated are from Strangers. AND, Samantha Beiko is nominated for our cover art, which is awesome. But again, the field, in all categories is pretty intimidating. There is no guessing who will win in any of the categories.

The Nebulas Conference in Pittsburgh was, as always, fantastic. This conference takes the best of all the other conferences, and pares it away to the 200 people you most want to network with and learn from. Programming is for the professional. And, at the awards ceremony, good friends David Levine won the Norton for best YA novel, and William Ledbetter won for best novelette.