Lisa Mantchev's Blog, page 34

NorwesCon 31 Schedule

Hooray! I just got my schedule, and it looks like I have ALL of Thursday free, and none of those pesky Crack O' Dawn panels. *confetti*

Friday

Rejectomancy
Noon, Cascade 6
Our panelists will help you divine the meaning of different rejection letters and ways to deal with rejection.
Jennifer Brozek, L.J. Bothell, Lisa Mantchev, Jeff Carlson, Michael Ehart

Why I Write YA Books
2:00 PM, Evergreen 1
Lisa Mantchev, Geno Salvatore, Richelle Mead, Ted Butler, Tiffany Trent

From Purple Crayon to Magic

Et tu, Brute?

HAVE you entered the LOLShakespeare contest at the new Théâtre Illuminata website to win one of six shiny (well, no, not shiny, they are paper, and thus matte) ARCs of Eyes Like Stars?

No?

Forsooth!  Hie thee to icanhascheezburger.com

Make us something like this:

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And e-mail it in!  (Details, include e-mail addy, here.)  Even the DOGS are doing it.  (Weren't the cats a given?)

Contest open until  we have heard the chimes at midnight, TONIGHT.

FlyCon2009 Schedule

I am pleased to announce my participation in flycon2009

From the LJ Profile:

Flycon will be an online convention planned to have activities during the peak hours of every time zone. It will begin midnight, Friday 13th in March 2009, in Australia and roll with the sun. We are looking for panelists, authors and editors and agents to host discussions, podcasts as readings, volunteers, and for people to spread the word through the blogoshpere. We will be having a couple of sites host forum and chat s

Unveiling the new Théâtre Illuminata website!

Here is your Programme.  Please step right in and take a look around.

Fabulous Prizes will be given away!  One of six ARCs of Eyes Like Stars can be yours, if ye possess the wit.

And Backstage Tours are coming soon!

Theater geeks, reviews, and ARC giveaways!

The Not So Closet Geeks (a YA book blogging review site) is hosting Geek Fest this week, and today they've posted my article, "I Am A Theater Geek" (which could have been subtitled "How Lisa Learned to Love--and Hog--The Limelight." *ahem*)

They are also running a giveaway for an autographed ARC of Eyes Like Stars.

In the subject of giveaways, Jessica Kennedy has written a lovely review here, and is now willing to pass her ARC to you.

Charles Tan, the Bibliophile Stalker, has his review up here, an

My Silence Is Not Complicity

Anyone who has been reading my flist for any period of time will remember what happened last year after Fantasy Magazine published The Stolen Word.

I apologized. I shut up. I listened.

I am still listening.

My silence on the current discussion is because I still have a lot to learn, and it's not my turn to speak right now.

New Interview Up

Aryanna Draeger interviewed me for her blog, A Maze Of Books.  Please stop by to read her reviews, as Aryanna is running her blog to recommend books that she likes, rather than grade them.

(FYI, Aryanna is eleven, so mind your manners and your language when you're over there!  *G*)

Where I'll Be

Or, more appropriately, where I won't be.

I've just sent notes to Programming for Anticipation (Montreal WorldCon) and Patrick Swenson (Rainforest Writers Retreat) that I won't be able to make it to either (the first because of finances/time away from home and the second because of my writerly schedule/current plague.)  Apologies to any or all hoping to see me there.

Where I WILL be:

NorwesCon (Seattle, April 9-12th)
PNWA (Seattle, August 1st)
SteamCon (Seattle, October 23-25th)

Possibly WFC, if the s

Glittery Links

Lindsay ( akabins) has a spare copy of Eyes Like Stars to give away to a fellow Canadian... head here to leave her a quote for a chance to win!  (You have until midnight, Thursday to enter.)

The Literary Fangirl ( learningtoread ) has VERY nice things to say about Eyes Like Stars.

As does SFScope.

And I have an interview up at the Bloody Bookaholic blog.

Jason Chan: Super Genius

If you have any desire to see the incredible amount of detail in my cover art (and the UK cover of The Hunger Games!) then head over to Jason Chan's blog.

(Warning, other content on his site is a wee bit more R-rated than that particular blog entry, just FYI.)