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MisCon Follow Up

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There are still some dear remnants of MisCon 30 to share, including cool autographs from guests of honor and featured authors, and unexpected extras.  All this.

 

The Worlds We Invent panel, featuring Esther Jones, Brenda Carre, Christopher Paolini & Steve Diamond
the smile of No-Face
Wookie saves Han, the end. With John Barba as Han Solo.
Jade scored her dream outfit pieces!
It’s a darling hearse.
Belldandy (me) plus angel.
Standing like pillars: Justin Barba, Patrick Rothfuss, Jim Butcher
I wasn’t stalking Rothfuss, though I might as well have been. PLOT panel, with Patrick Rothfuss, Peter Orullian, Steve Diamond, and Robin Hobb
The Name of the Wind Pairs game deck was a gift in exchange for a Bones of Starlight audiobook
Dragon Dronet, Hollywood prop maker & wearer weighs in.
Given her book by an anonymous reader, I sought out Guest of Honor Robin Hobb.
Looking forward to the 1st book of this innovative series.
Love these trading cards. Especially the career & library info on the back. I am the first to approach Kevin J. Anderson with his own card.

MisCon 30, Missoula MT

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This weekend, I am roving at MisCon 30, Montana’s oldest science fiction fantasy convention.

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volunteer meeting during setup
sometime Primal Spiral artist Andy Vanoverberghe completing display setup
wildflowers!
The downtown costume walk, a very long group.
Seated guests of honor at opening ceremony l-r: Dragon Dronet, Jeff Sturgeon, Peter J. Wacks, Robin Hobb, Kevin J. Anderson

The Flourish

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This marks the end of rough draft material for the second book prologue, eighteen parts of it.  The Enfolding Abyss, Book 2 of the Bones of Starlight series, now featured on the website header.  That’s what I was doing with all those “rough releases,” given an embarassingly phrased title because that’s a little what it’s like showing rough draft, that you know you intend to change.  I hope it was sufficiently entertaining, early or scholarly readers alone shall remember.

Start here if you want to read from the “beginning:”
https://bonesofstarlight.com/2016/03/08/rough-release-1/

 

Post Nebula Awards Wrap-Up

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Seatac treasure 1
Seatac treasure 2, Totororca
Piles of books to be given away to attendees
The bookbag distribution team!
Dark Matter Coffee
setting up the mass autographing
Bones of Starlight at Nebulas Mass Autographing
I’m in the book.
mass autographing in the Red Lacquer Room at Palmer House Hilton Chicago
John Hodgman, Bones of Starlight, Eva L. Elasigue. Story.
pre-haircut, about as long as it gets before dying
with intensity
Margaret Killjoy, aiding and influencing
all gone, again, no regrets
with John O’Neill of the Hugo-nominated fanzine Black Gate
Pre-awards ceremony Palmer House lobby
with Naomi Novik on the way in
the chandelier above our table in the Empire Room
Naomi Novik through her Nebula Award for Best Novel: Uprooted
Lawrence Schoen, with his honorary as a longtime managing volunteer
Lauren Asta completing a Chicago mural
Jim Henson from inside Mary Robinette Kowal’s puppetry book
at the train stations, look over the edge
Because I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson would enjoy this postcard, its history, where it went, and who signed it!
my personal registration, signees should be consulted as to their own reservation.

Dragon Food

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Here I’m taking a break to introduce the work of a weekend puppet making class taught by Toby Froud at The Fernie Brae in Portland, OR.  I was playing with the idea of a character I just introduced: Dragon Food, one of the Kao-Sidhe that the Princess has just encountered.  Though he hasn’t appeared yet in such an elaborated form, this is what I have constructed.  Sculpted, painted, and fabricated entirely by me under fantastic tutelage, and not entirely finished.

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The orange ninja just happens to be along.

I’m also really excited to have this:

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