Today I will see Iron Man 2. It will be full of shiny explosions and not much to think about. This is good because my brain is ready for something not particularly thinky.
Balticon booth preparation: I need to ship merchandise to Balticon so that Howard has things to sell. At the end of the month I’ll have to help Howard pack so that he can go.
Balticon Art Show preparation: They’ve given Howard eight panels in the art show. This was at first a dismayingly large number. We could wallpaper a room with all the strips he has done, but that doesn’t look eye-catching in an art show. Fortunately I’ve communicated with the art show director and found a solution. We’ll be putting together the panels as something akin to a museum exhibit. There will be pictures of Howard’s workspaces, explanations of his process. We’ll also discuss the process I go through to ship out books and how the books layout is done. A whole panel will be devoted to the XDM project. Hopefully it will be educational and interesting. But I’ve got lots of work to do to get it ready and I have to mail it all to Baltimore by the end of next week.
The Quest for the Tavern: This is an XDM adventure module. Tracy has already finished a draft of the text. I’ve got to do preliminary layout so that Howard can see where the pictures need to go. Then I have to put in the pictures. There also needs to be lots of copy editing and probable text revisions. The whole process needs to be complete by the end of May so that the thing can go to print.
RMS pre-orders: We’ll be opening pre-orders toward the end of this month. Before we can do that, I need to line up t-shirt reprints and magnet re-prints, and poster re-prints. We want all of these things available in the store so that people can buy lots of stuff and combine shipping. But it means hours of prep time getting the store ready to go.
Conduit: I’m listed on the website. I expect to be doing presentations and panels. I’ll need to prepare and to schedule myself so that I can be where I need to be.
Family stuff: The end of school brings a multitude of closing activities. There are a school carnival, field day, dances, birthday parties, mother’s day programs, and end of school homework projects.
Writing: Hah. I want there to be writing. I’m just not sure where I can possibly fit it in.
Well, I’ll see you at CONduit! I went to the business meeting today; it was… interesting. Some very competent, capable people. Between Worldcon and CONduit I’m seeing conventions from the inside. Not sure that is entirely a good thing but, hey, it is something different.
What presentations and panels are you on?
I don’t know yet what presentations and panels I will be on. If the programming staff knows, they haven’t emailed yet. All I know is that I’m listed as a participating guest on the front of the website and that I sent in panel suggestions two months ago.
See you there!
Hey Sandra, you know any time you guys have a huge display to do, I can always do matting for you, right? That often helps to both fill space and break up endless comic pages into something a little more eye-catching. Anyway offer’s always open for you.
I would love to have help with matting. I’ll email you.