STELLARCON 37, March 1-3, 2013
Greensboro, North Carolina
I’m the Author Guest of Honor. Here’s the convention’s URL:
http://www.stellarcon.com/
MILLENICON 27, March 15-17, 2013
Cincinnati, Ohio
I’m the Author Guest of Honor at this convention. Here’s the convention’s URL:
http://www.millennicon.org/
SUPERSTARS WRITING SEMINAR, May 14-16, 2013
Colorado Springs, Colorado
This will be the fourth of the annual seminars on the business of being a writer that I teach with Kevin Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Dave Wolverton. This year we have returning guest speaker James A. Owen (author/artist) as well as new guest speakers Jim Minz (editor, Baen Books) Joan Johnston (bestselling author) and Mark Leslie LeFebvre (Director of Self-Publishing from Kobo Books.)
If you’re interested in attending the seminar, here is the URL: http://superstarswriting.com/
CONTRAFLOW III, October 18-20, 2013
New Orleans, Louisiana
I’m the Author Guest of Honor. Here’s the convention’s URL:
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/
Hopefully you will be able to come to a LOSCON soon, especially if you haven’t been a guest before. Thanks and keep ‘em coming.
PS the Barnes and Noble in the Grove doesn’t have nearly enough of your books.
LA is my home town, and I’ve wanted to come to Loscon for a long time. The problem is simply that the convention takes place over Thanksgiving weekend and that’s always difficult because of family obligations. But I should be able to make it pretty soon, I think.
All these years I’ ve read your works and never realised you lived close enough to shake your hand.
More than 90% of my sci- fi/fantasy collection is owed to your free library project, as after I read them online, I had to get the actual books, which I rather think proved the point you made rather magnificently. I now read many authours I never would have, and found many series favourites there.
From one grateful NWIN fan, thank you, and hopefully we’ ll meet at a local Book store signing sometime soon so I can convey them in person.
I was wondering if you were ever in the silver horse bar in wanatah ,in.
Was wondering how you are feeling since the heart surgery. Did you have to make many life style changes since and how do you keep the pace you do? All the best….
I feel fine. People have a misapprehension of what happened. I never had a heart attack or any significant problem. In the course of a more-or-less routine stress test, the EKG results showed an anomaly. As a result, I had an angiogram done, which to the cardiologist’s surprise — and mine, for sure — showed atherosclerosis in four arteries including one major artery that was 99% blocked.
That’s why I had the bypass surgery done. It amount to preventive revascuralization, not something done to fix existing damage to the heart. So far as anyone can tell — and I now have tests done once a year — my heart is in fine shape. I have to monitor it, of course, and I’m now on medication that keeps my blood pressure under control and my cholesterol levels very low.
I had a similar experience, no heart attack, more or less just not feeling well. Nuclear Stress test led to angiogram which led to CABGx4. 100, 90, 75 and 75 were my blockages. Found out on a Tuesday at 2: needed the surgery and had it 6:00 the next morning, done so quickly didn’t even have time to digest it. Home 5 days later. This was April of 2009 and like you feel good today. Watch what I eat, walk constantly and quit smoking so the rest is out of my hands. Good luck.
will there be more of the time spike storyline? and how cool would it be if the grantville characters ran into some of the time spike characters whiling exploring in america? just a random thought but definitly want more in the time spike line