Still spinning plates
Sep. 7th, 2014 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaceyLoncon3, page proofs, Milford1, 4 days at home, Fantasycon (York), 5 days at home, Milford2. That's my August/September schedule. In the middle of all that I have to keep up the essentials of the day job and continue writing the second book.
Well, I just got home from Fantasycon in York, which was a small but very friendly convention (highly recommended) with a high proportion of writers. I met a number of new people, attended some interesting panels and caught up with friends. I also came home with an overdose of freebie books, which... well... no... there's no such thing as too many books, so let me revise that. I also came home with a stack of exciting new books to read, learn and inwardly digest. Many thanks to Gollancz and all the publishers who contributed. The freebie books almost made up for the cost of the hotel. Comfortable as The Royal York was, the price was appallingly expensive for anyone without a room-share, at £129 per night (single occupancy. It would only have cost £139 for two people to share. Basically a single person pays for two - minus the cost of one breakfast. Next year's Fantasycon is in Nottingham, so hopefully at a more modestly priced hotel, because I really would like to attend again and if I attend a con I don't want to be in an outlier hotel. I want to be able to retreat to my room as and when I need to.
So... I've successfully survived, Loncon3, Fantasycon, one Milford (and all the reading for it) and the trial of having to do page proofs for my upcoming book in three days flat. So now all I have to do is all the reading prep for the second of this year's two Milfords and the Milford week itself, which (due to intensity of schedule and cost) I'm departing from early - catching a train back to Huddersfield on Thursday evening after the last crit session.
Oh, yes, and I have to finish the second book by October.
<ahem>
Better get writing, then.
Well, I just got home from Fantasycon in York, which was a small but very friendly convention (highly recommended) with a high proportion of writers. I met a number of new people, attended some interesting panels and caught up with friends. I also came home with an overdose of freebie books, which... well... no... there's no such thing as too many books, so let me revise that. I also came home with a stack of exciting new books to read, learn and inwardly digest. Many thanks to Gollancz and all the publishers who contributed. The freebie books almost made up for the cost of the hotel. Comfortable as The Royal York was, the price was appallingly expensive for anyone without a room-share, at £129 per night (single occupancy. It would only have cost £139 for two people to share. Basically a single person pays for two - minus the cost of one breakfast. Next year's Fantasycon is in Nottingham, so hopefully at a more modestly priced hotel, because I really would like to attend again and if I attend a con I don't want to be in an outlier hotel. I want to be able to retreat to my room as and when I need to.
So... I've successfully survived, Loncon3, Fantasycon, one Milford (and all the reading for it) and the trial of having to do page proofs for my upcoming book in three days flat. So now all I have to do is all the reading prep for the second of this year's two Milfords and the Milford week itself, which (due to intensity of schedule and cost) I'm departing from early - catching a train back to Huddersfield on Thursday evening after the last crit session.
Oh, yes, and I have to finish the second book by October.
<ahem>
Better get writing, then.
