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-Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad: out in spring of 2010! That is pretty close to what I was expecting. This is maybe enough time for me to get used to the idea.
-Book tour: also spring of 2010! I am not sure yet if the publisher will be paying for anything or if I'm funding it myself, but there are some independent bookstores I'm really fond of in Raleigh/Durham, and I would be thrilled if I could go to Livres Babar in Pointe Claire - it's maybe half a mile from the house where I grew up, and I have such fond memories of walking there when I was in fifth grade and buying Julie of the Wolves, and spending all day reading it on the tire swing in the park.
-Totally Sweet Trip to Japan: maybe October of 2010? I would really rather go before then, but if I spend all my vacation days on the book tour that's going to be the earliest I can go...and I need to renew my passport.
-Wiscon: I certainly hope to get out there in 2009 and 2010. In fact, maybe I should go ahead and start making reservations for this year...
Longer-term, I am beginning to consider Canada again. I feel very uncertain about the political situation down here (though more optimistic than I have in a long time!) and the less said about the economy, the better. Montreal is a fantastic city, slower-paced than New York and not as expensive, and - if my job didn't require me to speak French, I could probably live there. So, if it were to become possible for me to write full-time... well, in the U.S. I'd have to pay through the nose for health insurance, and in Canada I wouldn't.
But that's the distant future. For now I'm happy to wait and see how things shake out.
-Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad: out in spring of 2010! That is pretty close to what I was expecting. This is maybe enough time for me to get used to the idea.
-Book tour: also spring of 2010! I am not sure yet if the publisher will be paying for anything or if I'm funding it myself, but there are some independent bookstores I'm really fond of in Raleigh/Durham, and I would be thrilled if I could go to Livres Babar in Pointe Claire - it's maybe half a mile from the house where I grew up, and I have such fond memories of walking there when I was in fifth grade and buying Julie of the Wolves, and spending all day reading it on the tire swing in the park.
-Totally Sweet Trip to Japan: maybe October of 2010? I would really rather go before then, but if I spend all my vacation days on the book tour that's going to be the earliest I can go...and I need to renew my passport.
-Wiscon: I certainly hope to get out there in 2009 and 2010. In fact, maybe I should go ahead and start making reservations for this year...
Longer-term, I am beginning to consider Canada again. I feel very uncertain about the political situation down here (though more optimistic than I have in a long time!) and the less said about the economy, the better. Montreal is a fantastic city, slower-paced than New York and not as expensive, and - if my job didn't require me to speak French, I could probably live there. So, if it were to become possible for me to write full-time... well, in the U.S. I'd have to pay through the nose for health insurance, and in Canada I wouldn't.
But that's the distant future. For now I'm happy to wait and see how things shake out.
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25/9/08 21:49 (UTC)I'm not sure - Worldcon is such a madhouse, and it's pricey to register, but I'd like to go...