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Nov
16th
2017

A Pony Thing and a Squirrel Thing · 2:13am Nov 16th, 2017

The Pony thing:

Is the Equestria LA convention this weekend, which fortunately doesn't actually take place in L.A.

It's in Anaheim just down Harbor Blvd. from Disneyland, and if one were to head down Harbor Blvd even further to the actual harbor, one would pretty much be in my neck of the woods. So I'll be driving there and back on Friday and Saturday.

The big draw for me is Lauren Faust speaking on Saturday night. I bought my ticket to the event last year when it was being put together by the Brony Thank You Fund, and I'm definitely looking forward to hearing her speak again--this'll be my third or fourth time, I think--especially now that she's got her gig putting together the new DC Superhero Girls cartoon show.

The Squirrel thing is this year's volume of the Sword and Sorceress anthology. It's number 32 and marks 10 consecutive years of Cluny the Sorceress Squirrel stories. I continue deluding myself that I'll get the first eight stories strung together with a bunch of new interstitial material to make a whole book about Cluny, Crocker and Shtasith's frosh year at Huxley College, and I invite you to feel delusional along with me!

I've actually gotten the thing written up to Spring Break, but rather than write the big giant party scene that ends the chapter with a bunch of stuff blowing up, I instead wrote an 18,000 word Flutterdash story and entered last weekend's Writeoff. Maybe next year...

Mike

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You're such a tease. :raritydespair: Still. Hope EQLA is a blast. Tell us about it when you return hopefully.

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I love feeling delusional!

I have this mental picture of a cover, with a squirrel holding a wand with just the smallest wisp of smoke curling off the end, and two pointy-toed smoking boots next to her.

Squirrel Season.

YO, you better come to my after party Sunday night!

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I'm already ninety percent certain that I won't actually speak to anyone while I'm there--I've known me for some time, y'see, and I've gotten used to the way I work. :twilightsheepish:

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It's either the most fun, or I'm deluding myself! :scootangel:

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I've got the cover all planned out, actually, and hope to get my brother Tom to do it: he did the covers for my novel Neighbors and for the Kindle version of my short story "A Bag of Custard." The illustration would be a three-quarter view of Crocker from the mid-chest up with Cluny sitting on one shoulder and Shtasith on the other: Crocker would be looking terrified, Cluny would be looking determined, and Shtasith be looking ready to leap forward and sink his teeth into whatever they're all looking at.

All I've gotta do is finish the dang thing... :twilightoops:

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Unfortunately, Sunday's always my busiest day of the week with my regular singing and drawing and radioing, so I won't be able to get to the con at all that day. :ajsleepy:

Mike

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