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kinzel ([personal profile] kinzel) wrote2009-07-06 09:59 am
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Long weekend

It was a long weekend, and between the early rain and the discovery that the Double Vision revision had a major structural problem we didn't get to the ocean for the 4th of July weekend or fireworks, the first time that's happened in some years.  We also avoided the local fireworks, which are always super jammed and which would have had us standing in afield of mud with the crying kids and inevitable nervous dogs ...
nope, I do NOT trust your dog just because he's your dog.

The upshot of the long weekend is that I'm going to need more eyes on a new Double Vision proof, and I'll be spending some time sending out notes to folks telling them the book is, yes, late, and that it is, yes, my fault. I hate when that happens.

In other news, I've volunteered to help out at the SFWA dealers room table at Worldcon, so if you can't locate me otherwise, that's a place to start. We *do* have out hotel rooms; I hear from some people that they're still not sure where they'll be.  And yes, according to our hotel it will cost us close to $150 to $200 to park the car for a week -- so it's like renting an extra room one night.  Alas, getting to Montreal by train is much less convenient for us since we'd have to drive 6 hours to catch a train, and then take the train and etc,  or drive 5 3/4 hours to get to Montreal.

Breaking news: the reversion letters from Penguin (Ace) have just arrived here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory and are being forwarded to our agent. What this means is, basically, the Meisha Merlin era is now really over for us except perhaps for a few overseas non-English contracts. Finally.
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[personal profile] sraun 2009-07-06 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
What's your turnaround going to be on the next Double Vision proof? I should be available for it this week.

[identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Still working on that, Scott ... may know by this evening.

[identity profile] redpimpernel.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Volunteering eyes if you need more. =)

More eyes

[identity profile] doccolt.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I would be happy to provide another set of eyes.

[identity profile] mothadventures.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I should also be available this week if you need proofing -- how big do you anticipate file being? I may need to provide an alternate email address than what LJ has.

[identity profile] drammar.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Eyes available here too.

RIP Meisha Merlin

[identity profile] od-mind.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, closure! We loves it.

[identity profile] laurajunderwood.livejournal.com 2009-07-07 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
For me, alas, the Meisha Merlin era will not end until I get enough folk willing to prepay my publisher to print copies of Wandering Lark, the sequel to Dragon's Tongue.

Sorry you didn't get to see fireworks. I live high on a hill and see the stuff they are tossing in the air from downtown if I sit upstairs in my house.

Laura J. Underwood