Speaking Updates, Vault Entries and More
Hi all!
A few quick things! I have two speaking announcements:
- My appearance at Georgetown University is in the process of being rescheduled and it probably will be the end of April. Details as soon as they're confirmed! Yeeeee! (Yeeeee, noun. An exclamation one makes when one is equal parts nervous, excited, nauseated, thrilled, overwhelmed, and just unbelievably honored to be speaking at one's alma mater.)
- I am super excited to be keynoting Expeditious 2010, a Harry Potter conference in Michigan. I know the people running this conference, which is what makes me excited about it: if it's half as awesome as they are, it's going to be my favorite weekend of 2010. Not to mention this is the same weekend, in the same town, that StarKidPotter is unveiling A Very Potter Sequel, the followup to the smash YouTube hit A Very Potter Musical. If you at all can be in Ann Arbor, MI, that weekend, trust me, you will not regret it! Tickets are very limited to Expeditious - 250 only, and the price is only $50, a ridiculous steal if you know how conferences work. The keynote is $5 additional but anyone who got an early bird registration will be given a free ticket. Registration is here.
I've been answering a lot of questions on Formspring, because it's fun, an easy break in my day, and not too time consuming. I get these two questions A LOT, so I thought I would address them here:
- What are you writing now / what is your next book about / when is your next book due to your publisher? I can't answer any of these three questions. The first one I hope to be able to answer soon. The second one, as well. The third one I would have an answer about at the same time that I had an answer to the others. So I guess once I have an answer to any of these I'll have an answer to all. The reason I don't have an answer is that I'm a superstitious freak, and I don't like talking about this stuff publicly until I'm 100% sure it's going to happen - that is, the book is sold. And I had a few months of absolute crazy between August (when I settled down to start working on this) and now, in which Murphy's Law might have easily been mistaken for a twee country day trip. We're talking, mandatory cleaning out of my entire apartment, family medical scares, random surprise business trips, etc. Everything worked out fine in the end but a funny thing happens when you have a couple of months of crazy - it's really, really hard to settle into a good research/writing space. This is no one's fault but mine: I should know by now how to bust through that wall, and to a certain extent I do. Lately I have been. Whenever I feel guilty about how long it has taken me to get to this point I try and remember it's all about the process. This helps me from picking the process up and chucking it out a window and possibly killing a helpless old lady who was just trying to get to the store to buy baklava. <-- that is an example of a crappy sentence, fellow writers. Take note. I'm leaving it there because I am feeling brave today.
- Are you going to put more Vault entries on HarryAHistory.com? Yes! Yes, yes, yes. I've got a ton. I mean a ton. I may not put them up as fast as you or I would like but you should never consider a period of relative inactivity on this site as an indication it's dead. This site is a document that will continue to change throughout time, because the Harry Potter phenomenon is as well. (Me and my crappy sentences today...) All inactivity means is that I've become too busy on some other things, and that's good, because that relates to answering the question up there ^^.
If you are interested in more of my hysterical ramblings hit me up on Formspring.
I love reading your posts. :) And yesyesyesyesyes! More vault!