On this lovely fall morning, the final day of September, the first music track I hear on StreamingSoundtracks.com is …. “Christmastime Is Here” from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Call me Grinch, but it’s too darn early for Christmas music. It’s bad enough that the craft stores start stocking Christmas in July. Can we at least wait until after Halloween to start decking the halls?

Archon starts on Friday, and I am so not ready! I still have lots of work to do before I leave, including cutting mats for and packaging new art, filling out those annoying mutli-part carbon bid sheets, and prepping for my panels. My schedule is posted below. Note re: the Saturday 11:10 AM panel on Creating Believable Plots…it’s just me and Guest of Honor Eric Flint, author of the 1632 alternate history series and other…

It’s been so long since I had time to post here that I hardly know where to start. Big changes are afoot: I was let go from my job last week as part of the company’s complete re-org of the marketing department — not an entirely unexpected occurrence. Many of you know that I’ve been there, done that, several times. I embrace these employment gaps as "creative sabbaticals", because I always come through on the…