November 1, 2010

Did you ever have one of those days where you're gone for a few hours, then you come home and realize that a huge flow of work has logjammed itself together in your absence – and you spend the rest of the day playing catch-up, but somehow never catching up?

Yeah. I'm having one of those right now.

However – I did not want to let the Monday slide by postless, especially not considering that tomorrow night, November 2 at Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park), you can catch me reading, signing, and goofing off with the Third Place crew starting around 7:00 p.m. And I really wanted to squeak in a heads-up about that before the day of the event. On general principle.

For what it's worth to you, this is the last local bookstore event on my calendar at this time. I'll be doing a library reading in Tacoma at the end of this month and I'll be appearing SteamCon (at Seatac); but if you want to catch me in public in Seattle, it's tomorrow or never for 2010.

In other news, I'm still taking questions over at Questionland through Wednesday. Some of the more recent ones have asked about the nitty-gritty of publishing and/or the creative process – and though I'm perfectly comfortable with both of those subjects, I very rarely blog about them.

Why? Because I worry that it's too much like golf – which is fun to play, but a total snooze-fest to watch. I just don't want to bore you with it.

But if you ask, in a pointed fashion, in the kind of forum where I'm taking questions on pretty much any subject whatsoever,* then sure, I'll do my best to give you an answer. You might not like it much, but you'll get one.

* At my personal discretion, mind you. Asshats will be ignored, but oddballs will be indulged.

[Crossposted from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]