Thursday, September 02, 2010
How Dragon Con Saved My Sanity
Two years ago I was a workaholic who tried to make everything pretty damned serious. This attitude had helped me build an enviable career as a novelist, and hit #1 on the New York Times list more than once. I’d been to Dragon Con twice before, and didn’t have fond memories of it. It was crowded, noisy, and the elevators broke down early in the con and were never repaired. The second time my husband, Jonathon, and I went there was something in the air vents that we were allergic to, and the schedule for panels one year when I… Read More
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Dragon Con Booth Giveaways
Dragon Con fun to share:
We have a booth: #503 in the Marquis Ballroom of the Marriott. We’ll be doing some pretty nifty giveaways. We will be drawing names to win a signed copy of BULLET, a signed complete set of Hard Cover Guilty Pleasure Graphic Novels, and the top giveaway - a signed, complete series of Anita Blake UK edition Paperbacks. One name will be drawn for each of the giveaways on Sunday afternoon. We will call to notify the winner and you can stop… Read More
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Dragon Con Schedule 2010 - Come Play
My Dragon Con Schedule:
Friday September 3rd:
Interview with Laurell K. Hamilton (me). Time: 1600-1700 - (4:00PM- 5:00PM). Hyatt: Regency VI-VII Your chance to ask all those questions you keep wanting to ask. Me, for an hour, taking questions directly from the audience, while I pace the stage. For some reason I have trouble holding still on stage. I have no idea why, but I move. I’m told that I move so much pictures are hard to get. Sorry, but I gotta move on stage. Can you say ADHD? Ooh, shiny . . . .
I will also be at… Read More
Friday, August 27, 2010
Q & A at Dragon Con Friday at 4:00
Dragon Con is next week! Sorry that so many of you have said you won’t be able to get off work for my 4:00 Interview with me, because you, the audience, the fans, are the ones that get to ask the questions. There’ll be a microphone set up so you’ll be able to be heard and so we won’t waste time with someone trying to move through the crowd with a microphone. You can just ask your questions. You’ve got me to yourselves for an hour. This is your chance to ask all those questions you’ve been thinking about. You… Read More
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
StrowlerFest Music Festival
If you want to hear some very cool music come play in St. Louis the weekend of September 10-12. St. Louis was known for cutting edge music once when the blues were born, let’s see if we can put our city on the map again with new music sung by some amazingly talented performers. Use the discount code and you can get the tickets at a special price just for being one of my fans. I hope everyone has a wonderful time. I’ve seen S. J. and some of the other singers in concert more than… Read More
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Message Brought to you by Hawk and Raven
I woke in a very dark, sad head space. The personal revelations of the last few days, working issues from my childhood, had left me almost in despair. So, I came to my office, but not to work. I raised my circle, lit my candles, called to Deity and put myself in sacred space. It helped some, but not really. I made tea, I tried to meditate, but my mood was not calm enough. I drew some runes and my gloom interrupted them badly, darkly. Then I heard crows calling. I knew that call, it meant they’d found a hawk… Read More
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
New Anita Blake novel: Hit List
The new technology just keeps racing ahead of us all. The title for the new Anita book hit the Internet before I announced it. It was apparently an automatic bit of technology that neither my editor nor I understood; now we do. It won’t happen again. But since it did, here’s the title: Hit List.
That’s right, the new Anita Blake novel is, “Hit List”. My editor, publisher, et al, had agreed they liked my title months ago. I held off announcing it, because I’ve had novels change drastically during the writing process, so much so that the original title… Read More