After half a day at home, from Dayton OH on my HELLHOLE AWAKENING tour, I flew off with Rebecca to Richmond, VA where were guests of honor at RavenCon.  It was an early morning flight, and an all-day flight (departing 8 AM, arriving 4:30 PM), and I woke up that morning with my full-blown laryngitis returned.  So I sat in the back seat of the car, saying nothing, while Tim drove us to the airport. I got some DARK BETWEEN THE STARS editing done on the plane flights because I knew I would be busy for the weekend. We landed,...
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James Artimus Owen was one of our guest speakers at the Superstars Writing Seminar last year, and his talks were so popular we invited him to come back. James is a successful bestselling author in his own right, and he wanted to come to Superstars for the experience; he did not get paid for his appearance.  Yesterday he posted a blog about his experiences, and since he had such nice words to say, I asked if I could repost them here. Last year, I was invited by my dear friends Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta to be a guest...
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Finally got home yesterday from Dayton and the end of the main leg of my HELLHOLE AWAKENING book tour.  Very tired, a little under the weather from the persistent laryngitis, but I had all of 14 hours at home to reacquaint myself with the cats, and with Rebecca, with the jacuzzi tub, my own bed...and of course the washer and dryer to do my clothes and repack the suitcase. Sitting in the Dulles airport right now, on our way to Richmond VA for Ravencon all weekend. Yesterday I did receive the wonderful news that CLOCKWORK ANGELS has been nominated for...
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My Tor publicist had scheduled me for a noontime TV interview on “Living Dayton,” so we rebooked my Tuesday morning flight from Atlanta on a much earlier (groan!) flight, so I could get into Dayton in time. Then, as mentioned in my previous blog, I came down with terrible laryngitis Monday morning and could barely talk all day Monday, so I had to cancel the TV interview (TV interviews don’t work too well when the interviewee can’t *talk*!)  But the flight was booked, so I was stuck heading out Way Too Early anyway.  Then in Monday afternoon in Atlanta, Dr...
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