The Goon Squad and the Very Slow Loading Bar
LONCON 3, largely unblessed by my genius. Philistines.
Firstly, I’d just quickly like to say I’m at WorldCon/Loncon3 from tomorrow, Thursday the 14th of August. Irritatingly I seem not to have been tagged on the “Yes, I’m available for panels” list, so I’m not doing a great deal. On the one hand it’s good because I can do largely what I like, but on the other hand it’s irritating. People need to hear my half-baked opinions. Their lives will not be complete without them. Now I shall have to sit around in audiences and listen to the ill-considered, off-the-cuff comments of others when it should be me up there, being a damnable fool. I’m quite cross about this. I was looking forward to humiliating myself.
That said, I shall be at the Skyboat Media table at 11 on Saturday morning with Gabrielle de Cuir. Skyboat’s publishing the audio books of Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute and The Brother Cabal. Bring yourself there, hear my witless bleatings in person, and then see for yourself how badly I could have lowered the tone of any panel and bemoan what a terrible waste of an opportunity it was.
Secondly, as I’ve said elsewhere, or possibly even here, July and now August has turned out to be ridiculously jam-packed with stuff, and something had to give. What gave, with a mighty sproing of overwound scheduling, was Goon Squad. Not only have I missed the July issue date, but there isn’t the flimsiest phantasm of a chance I’ll catch up by the end of this month. That’s the bad news (assuming you enjoy Goon Squad. If you don’t, really, why are you even reading this paragraph?). The good news is that I’m going to do my level best to catch up in September once the manuscript I’m working on at present is handed in. That means that, barring further disasters, September will see three Goon Squad issues released in rapid succession.
While I’m talking about Goon Squad, I’d just like to say the cover for #7 is gorgeous. I love it to pieces, and I hope you do, too. That issue’s title, by the way, is “Dead Man Tells Tale.” I’ll do a proper reveal just before it goes live.
