L.T. Getty's Blog, page 29
June 17, 2013
Manitoba Festivals
It’s almost summer time in Manitoba – and that means festivals every weekend.
Of course, I have a job where I work some weekends (this weekend, for example, I had off but I ‘worked’ the Manitoba Marathon as a volunteer paramedic – or, at least in my case, a glorified people pusher, I didn’t have any good calls but I suppose that’s a good thing) but I went to a Pirate/Renaissance/Steampunk Fair this weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a Sparrowhawk there.
I included a sparrowhawk in T...
May 22, 2013
Keycon
Sorry for lack of update; it stopped raining on Tuesday and I’ve been making up for lost time during my staycation. I also discovered I have the only dog in the world who doesn’t like going for walks, but I think it’s me going too long for the little guy, so we’ll take it easy tomorrow.
I think it went okay at Keycon – I didn’t sell very many Ebooks, but I had a bunch of people, when I talked about my books, who wanted it in print, so it’s a good sign (or maybe I’m just getting better at talki...
May 16, 2013
Keycon And Champagne
Sadly, Ellen won’t be attending KeyCon this year – Graeme Brown, R.J. Hore and I will still be there, so if you’re interested in our publishing house, check out the Radisson Hotel this weekend in Winnipeg. If you’re there, it’ll be raining the entire time anyway.
Also, there’s a new bonus for signing up for the Champagne newsletter, so check out the publisher’s main page and see if you want to win free stuff.
Yeah, beyond that, I’ve been spending my days off with sick people for a change, so I’...
May 7, 2013
No Broke and Bookish Post this week
Maybe I’m not light and fluffy enough, heh. Can’t think of anything fun besides Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett – don’t get me wrong, I love my humor, so this should be easy, but I can’t do it. Part of this is my kobo is down, part of this is because fluffy-lovekins just chewed through my laptop cord. Emotional outbursts have no place in training a dog, so that’s why I’m venting here; all my RL peeps are at work and will just laugh at me later anyway.
So three of us from the Worlds of Imagin...
May 1, 2013
Winter isn’t Coming; It just fills us with false hope for spring
So yesterday was the first time I got prevented to going to work from road closure – apparently, we had something like 35cm of snow yesterday. This pic is from the motel I stayed at last night, where it wasn’t so bad – things are melting but it’s May, and… snowing.
Actually, it’s not that bad; roads are way better then they were yesterday, but still.
So not doing anything for Canada’s image of things other than igloos and polar bears.
Ah well. Dodger (the puppy from a few weeks ago) is doing wel...
April 24, 2013
I’ll Bite
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is to be made into a ballet. In Winnipeg. Next year.
Well, I know I’m going, but I don’t know if I can really say more than that at this point.
April 23, 2013
C4Lit Fest
So I got my laptop back and I probably should have been emailing people all through this weekend – busy busy, I went to C4Lit Fest instead and played with the puppy. As much as you’ve probably heard wailing and gnashing of teeth over Winnipeg’s weather, a good thing my hometown has going for it is that it does love its arts, be it theatre or music or the written word.
Winnipeg is home to an International Writer’s Festival, a huge Comic Convention, and I’m meeting up with my publisher next mont...
April 7, 2013
A Glowing Review and My Prrrrrecious…
I should have mentioned this earlier this week, but I just got a glowing review from a writer I’m friends with, author of TimeWarp Inc., Cotton E. Davis. He had some wonderful things to say about Tower of Obsidian, so if you’re curious, check out what he had to say. I’m very pleased with the reviews so far – and don’t get me wrong, I think I’m still a ways away from getting good at this, but I’m glad that the reviews I’ve seen so far indicate that the writing is at-par.
Why have I been so busy...
April 2, 2013
No Top Ten Tuesday for me… next week!
I can’t do this week’s Top Ten Tuesday from Broke and Bookish – I know I didn’t do last week’s, but I was kinda busy studying. As for this one – I generally don’t crush on a lot of guys in books. Don’t get me wrong, if it gets adapted into a movie, I will be the first one talking about the choice of actor (Ben Barnes as a 13 year old? It gets a pass because it’s Ben Barnes!), but, if I could play this one: it would probably be like, Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables, and that would be about i...
