Monthly Archives: April 2011
Norwescon 34: Made of epic and awesome
| April 25, 2011 | Posted by annathepiper under About Me |
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So here’s a super-quick summary of the various awesome things about Norwescon 34, this past weekend:
- At least a couple people seem to have taken my Faerie Blood cards off the freebie rack, because two more people have added me on Goodreads. Thank you, Goodreads adders!
- I did actually sell one of my Faerie Blood CDs, on Sunday afternoon while I was waiting for
solarbird - Dara got props from the Seattle Geekly podcast for the awesomeness of her music programming!
- I discovered that nerdcore is, in fact, pretty cool.
- My and Dara’s friend
- I volunteered officially for the first time ever. I got over 15 hours helping Dara by running water to various performers, and by helping man the merch table as well! This netted me several free books and a shirt. Go me!
- Stood in line for nearly two hours to get books signed by
- Bought several awesome shirts, including one of Jayne’s shirts from Serenity and a new Matt Smith Doctor Who shirt!
- Got a mass market copy of
- Had the pleasure of meeting Heather Dale and her husband Ben, and watching them do a joint double set with
- My and Dara’s favorite Barcon quote: VODKA OF THE RIGHTEOUS! APPLE TINIS OF THE JUST!
All in all this was a very, very enjoyable convention and I look forward to doing more Actual Volunteering next year! And maybe doing some actual readings or something. ‘Cause, like, I have a book and stuff.
Hello Norwescon!
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by annathepiper under About Me, Faerie Blood |
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Taking a moment to put up a post before having dinner, just to say that I’ve left assorted business cards on the freebie table and the flyer rack here at Norwescon. If anybody happens to pick one up and comes by this site to visit, hello and welcome, and I hope your convention is being awesome so far!
If you HAVE come by because of Norwescon and you’re interested in buying my book, arrange to find me before EOD on Sunday and I’ll sell you one of my small number of Faerie Blood CDs. That will get you an ePub AND a PDF of the book, both DRM-free, along with a free short story, “The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen”. I’m offering Norwescon attendees a special price of $5 per disk!
So say hi if you are at the con and you see this, and tell me how your con is going! Better yet, find me and do it in person. 
Off to Norwescon this evening, find me there
| April 20, 2011 | Posted by annathepiper under About Me |
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Not doing anything in any sort of official “writer” capacity–but I’ll be showing up at various panels out of basic interest, and hope to see any of y’all who might be reading this there. Look for me in particular at any panels where the redoubtable katatomicjimbutcher
I’ll also have the last six Faerie Blood CDs with me, so if anybody who’ll be at the con wants one, bug me about that! And I’ll leave a lot of my business cards on the freebie table as well.
Please also do bug me if you want to meet up for a meal or a snack or something. Those of you who I know locally anyway probably already have my cell number for texting purposes. But if you don’t and you want it, shoot me an email with how I can reach you, and we’ll meet up! (Gmail is my preferred email address, annathepiper as always.) I’m busy early Thursday evening, when I’ll be having dinner with karenjunkersolarbird
See you all there, I hope!
Signal-boosting for Norilana Books: Foreclosure/Moving Sale
| April 19, 2011 | Posted by annathepiper under Other People's Books |
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Hey folks, for those of you who haven’t seen this news elsewhere, Vera Nazarian, who runs Norilana Books, has lost her home to foreclosure and is having to move across the country. To try to offset the cost of this, she’s having a huge Foreclosure/Moving Sale of Norilana titles. Details can be found here.
Buy something if you can, and if nothing else, pass the word on! Because foreclosure sucks.
Fellow writers who own iPads, represent!
| April 4, 2011 | Posted by annathepiper under About Me, Writing |
Those of you who follow my personal blog know that my partner solarbird
One of the things I’m thinking of doing with mine is seeing if I can write effectively on it. So if you’re a writer and an iPad owner (first OR second generation model), I’m very interested in hearing about whether you find them effective writing devices! If so, what apps do you use? I’ve kind of liked Documents To Go on my iPhone and I plan to see how well I can use it on the iPad, but I’m open to other suggestions as well!
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