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When Words Collide

returned

August 18, 2016 by L.S. Johnson

I’m back from WWC and still churning a few things over but it was a great experience – interesting panels (and I might have even said something useful on one or two!), a good reading for the Sirens launch, and some useful tips for everything from marketing to depicting gunshot wounds. Plus meeting lovely people and sampling Canadian beer. Which is pretty much all you can ask for from a con, and way more than I expected, especially with my particular cocktail of introversion and anxiety.

I also returned with a cold, but that goes with the territory. Oh, and I have had “Bohemian Rhapsody” as an earworm since Saturday, though I can’t for the life of me remember where I got it from. Some kind of late-night Internet grazing? I am remarkably susceptible to earworms (so much so I’ve thought about making them a recurring feature here, just to share the joy), and they make my insomnia bouts all the more entertaining, but this has been days now. Can’t we please change the record, brain?

One upshot from the con, and the simultaneous sale of Vacui Magia: it’s cemented my decision to pull the book from Kindle Unlimited at the end of the month. If you’ve already borrowed it, NO WORRIES: you’ll have the book in your library until you return it, whether it’s now or August 2017. If you were thinking of borrowing it, do so by August 30. Then you’ll have as long as you like to peruse. Sorry for the boldface but I know these would be my concerns if I was in your shoes, so I just wanted to make that clear.

And if you’ve avoided the Amazon beast until now, your time has come: I’m setting up my distribution channels and I might even look into selling epub copies here. Stay tuned.

 

Filed Under: Conferences, News Tagged With: Vacui Magia: Stories, When Words Collide

When Words Collide

August 8, 2016 by L.S. Johnson

This weekend is When Words Collide! I’m soooo looking forward to it. New city, new con, lots of writer-talk and a chance to relax. Everything I need at the moment.

If you’re there, come say hello! Here’s my schedule:

Friday, August 12
2:00 – Blending Genres
4:00 – Alternating History with Story Take 1

Saturday, August 13
10:00 – I’ll be working the shared author table in the Dealer’s room, where there will be many wonderful books, including signed copies of Vacui Magia!
1:00 – Structure in Story

Sunday, August 14
1:00 – Sirens launch and reading

Phew! It’s going to be a busy three days.

Oh, and if you can’t go to the con? You can still take advantage of the sale: the ebook of Vacui Magia will be 99 cents throughout the convention weekend – and this may be the last time for a while, as I’m considering “going wide” and withdrawing it from the Kindle Unlimited program. Get it while you can!

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Vacui Magia: Stories, When Words Collide

touching base

July 2, 2016 by L.S. Johnson

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This is apparently what Calgary looks like. I will be able to verify this next month when I go there for When Words Collide. Right now my schedule looks something like:

  • Blending Genres
  • Alternate History with Story Take 1
  • Structure in Story
  • Sirens launch/reading

I’m quite excited for this, as much for the newness of it all as the paneling and reading and general convention goodness, which always leaves me with a full head and about twelve more project ideas that I don’t have time for. 😉

That’s August. In July I am finally feeling like I’m hitting some kind of writing pace again, like I’m getting things done. The past several months have been such a morass. I found a goals list that I wrote last fall and it was laughable how little I had actually accomplished, and usually I’m so strong out of the gate of the new year . . . anyway. It is the year of questions, and I am still finding answers, but at least now I feel like there are answers to be had.

Filed Under: Conferences, Process Tagged With: We are Sirens, When Words Collide

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