Was working on my poor power-cord challenged laptop this a.m. at Pannera's when the battery finally ran down the computer shut off. When I rebooted Firefox didn't restart with all my tabs ( Read more... )

( computer blathering )

All of a sudden my laptop has stopped charging. It's as if it doesn't realize it's plugged in ( Read more... )

Big, Massive, Deadline met. Now smaller, manageable deadlines loom. But I eat deadlines for breakfast, baby.

Speaking of deadlines, today is the last day to get a reduced rate Writercon tickets! As of tomorrow the price goes up to $84. And for the love of all that's vintage - check out This Dress!!!

The fabulous lordshiva made this gorgeous creation ( Read more... )

I'm am the queen of "ask me" meme's that I never get around to answering. Usually it's because when I ask I'm feeling peckish and then when it's time to answer my plate use typically overspilling with life. But, anyway, here are the answers to the Ask Me Anything meme from mumble, mumble a while ago. (Why yes, I do have a deadline - is my ( Read more... )

We've been flying full steam ahead with Writercon. We've announced our tentative program schedule, our first round of guests and kicked off the first wave of fundraising in support of scholarships. Speaking of which, the deadline is almost here for scholarship applications so if you are considering going and need a financial boost, please submit ( Read more... )

Extraordinary was nominated for a Children of Time Award in the Classic Who category. (A very belated Thank You to whoever it was that nominated me!) I know the awards are going through some growing pains but it was an honor to be nominated and I'm quite content resting my wee little laurels on the nomination alone.

However...

who_daily, torchwood_three and soniclipstick have all ( Read more... )

For all you OT3 lovers (heh), Doctor/Rose/Jack is up today at the March Madness "OTP/OT3 Tuesday". The parings/characters/ships/etc. etc. who raise the most money will be featured in a surprise event at Writercon, so go vote!

(Serious post to follow on the "Oh, hell no" reaction to fandom outings but I needed to get my pimp on first.)

OMG so much snow.

But more exciting is we've announced our program schedule at writercon. And, as a bonus, we're topping that with our first round of guest announcements. Kristina Busse, Martha Wells and Debra Doyle will be rocking Writercon 2009 (see the official guest announcement for details of their awesomeness). Why isn't it July yet ( Read more... )

Writercon has been eating my soul a bit these past few weeks but it's all been so exciting. We're talking to really cool guests (Announcements Soon!!) and working out our fundraisers for 2009. The one thing that I love about the Writercon culture is that is all about bringing people *to* Writercon. Way back when the first Writercon was being ( Read more... )