dameargyle

Hello, all! Yeah, long time no post. I'm alive and occasionally check my Friends page, but haven't had writing time, and haven't really had a hell of a lot to say on DW/LJ, even comments (sorry, I read posts and all, but never feel like I have much to add to the conversation). Maybe one of these days I'll be less brain-fried and more able to engage (at least I get to retire in 20-ish years, so there's that free time to look forward to . . .)

At any rate, for once I do have something to say/share: I’ll be going to Norwescon later this month, and thought I’d offer to take any printed promo cards people might have for books, editing services, etc. that you think might go well on the “freebies” advertising table there. I’ve done this for a few friends before, and it usually looks like at least some cards get picked up every time. Norwescon isn’t exactly a gigantic con, but it’s the biggest one I go to, and it’s in Seattle, so it’s a nice way to reach that market. If I have anything left over, I’ll happily take them to MisCon in Missoula, MT (smaller than Norwescon, even, but people there seem to like the freebie table a lot, so …).

If you’re interested, we can message and I can give you my mailing address, or, if you have printable PDFs, my email.

Wow, had a great time at Seattle Sherlock, and am in con-recovery mode. Also, since everybody and her cat is on Tumblr nowadays (and I missed some pre-con communications by not having an account), I finally decided to bite the bullet and start Tumbling. Find me at:

http://argyle4eva.tumblr.com/

Okay, back to resting up; this is the last traveling event on the calendar till RadCon next Feb., so I'm hoping the fic-writing time will finally happen now. W00t! TT y'all later!

W00t! The website for this has gone live, so I can start promoting (click pic to access the site):



Not only does this promise to be a lot of fun, but I have the honor of being an actual panelist, which I'm really excited about.

It's also the first time my two different identities will be publicly connected; in my other fandom life (mostly of a Doctor Who nature), I'm dameruth. Once upon a time, there was a reason to keep the fandoms separated (due to some Real Life friends who were reading this journal, but really aren't anymore -- though all my fannish activity over there is f-locked for similar reasons), but now seems like an apropos time to bring the usernames together. I plan to keep separate journals for the foreseeable future, however -- partly for name familiarity in different locations, and also because I'm a lazy broad and the thought of consolidating archives gives me the heebies right now. I have enough catching up to do as it is! ;)

(As proof of my laziness, I'm c'n'p-ing a lot of the text for this announcement from the one I put up on the dameruth account; shameless, I am.)

If you're in the Seattle area, it's be great to see you here; if you think anyone on your f-lists would be interested, please repost! The goal is to spread the word as widely as possible.

Even if you can't attend personally, a donation in support of the con will net you nifty thank-yous, including special-edition fanart postcards by Reapersun (all 3 postcard designs featured on the Memberships page of the convention site), and/or a signed convention poster by Unicornempire. Excellent incentives, IMHO. ;)

W00t! Again! Lookin' forward to this.

For those who didn't see it on the LJ holmsean-news post, there's a call for Sherlock Holmes fic, with a shot at getting published!

"Want to see your own Sherlock Holmes story in print?"

Thought the peanut gallery'd like to know about that. ;)

This has been going around FB, and definitely deserves a repost here, for all my writer friends. :)

"The Periodic Table of Storytelling."

Still not quite at a point where I'd want to write up a post of my own, but Diane Duane made an excellent one here, so that'll do for now.

*sigh* So many goodbyes already in 2011 . . .

Turns out the "I Write Like" site has made the news -- and there's a teeny bit in the article about the criteria used. Also some entertaining results for the RL writings of various authors:

"I Write Like erupts online, authors scratch heads."

"Music of the sun recorded by scientists."

(Clip is very brief, but the idea is the cool part, really.)

After what feels like, simultaneously, a very short and very long couple of days, I poked my head up out of my little burrow and saw my shadow -- or at least realized what the date was. OMG, it's MisCon teim already!

Which means, sadly, since I don't have it by now, I'm not going to get any fic posted till after I'm back (late Monday afternoon, and realistically I'm gonna need unpacking and resting time on top of that). *Many* apologies to everyone waiting for updates, and thanks for your patience.

OTOH, if anyone's going to be out Missoula way, do stop by and say hello! Love to meet up with anyone out there who might be onsite in person. ;)

I'll probably be around sproadically till I leave tomorrow (early afternoon), so this isn't necessarily the last thing I'll post before I leave, but just in case life gets any crazier than it has been, I wanted to get this note up for y'all.