Working Weekend

I know I’m going to be meeting some of you next weekend at Lora Leigh’s Reader Appreciation Weekend (RAW). By that time, if I look a little frazzled, I hope you’ll understand! The work that goes on behind the scenes at these events is often unseen and unrealized — except by those who do it. My own little part of this event is minor. All I have to do is get myself there with all my stuff and try to be coherent. I’m sure Lora and her team are way more stressed by having to coordinate with the hotel, the guests, etc, so kudos to her and all the people behind the scenes (Melissa Bliss, the bookseller, springs to mind) who are going to make next weekend a whole lotta fun!

That said, I’m going NUTS! See, I ordered some promotional items so I would have something fun to give to the folks who are coming from as far away as Australia for this shindig, but they haven’t arrived yet. I’ve been on the phone daily with the vendor to try to see what the hold-up is and keep getting the run around, though to be fair, they did expedite some of the items in my order and they are arriving today - I hope! My plan was to make little goodie bags (over 150 of them!) but I don’t want to start assembling that many bags until I have all the items for them, to save work. Still, I’m going to have to start soon if I want to finish in time.
Aside from all of that, I have a release on Tuesday - Wings of Change - a new Dragon Knights story. I’m also supposed to be running all over next week, running back and forth over 3 different states before I officially leave for Kentucky and the weekend at RAW. Oy. What things I get myself into, huh?

Not to mention the whole 9/11 thing. It’s a bad day for me. I worked on Wall Street during 2001 and have dark memories of those times. The friends who made it - those who didn’t. It’s good to remember the fallen, but also really hard on those of us left behind. And then all this crap on the news designed to scare the bejeezus out of us who still live and work in NY. It’s disgusting. I truly wish the terrorists would all just die to burn in hell. I have no compassion, no pity for them. They have none for us.

Whew! Sorry. Like I said… bad time of the year. I’m off to hound that vendor some more. Hope you all have a great weekend, and be sure to stop by the Samhain Cafe Group on Sunday for a Dragon Party featuring all five authors of the I Dream of Dragons anthology. I’ll be giving away some downloads and a lot of bookmarks and fun stuff! Hope to see you there!