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[mrissa]

Con report is up on my real journal. No pictures yet.

My brain has clicked over to it being September and desperately wants to wear jeans and sweaters and jackets. It is too warm for those things. It is almost always too warm for those things in early September in Minnesota. Silly brain.

I am feeling much better than I was last night -- DayQuil is our friend -- but it's not without drawbacks. I have the attention span of a gnat now. A very young gnat. A gnat toddler. Yes. I'm going to get a bit of everything done, I think, and not much of anything, and I suppose that had better be fine, because it's what I've got at the moment.

The thing about WorldCon is that it made me think about marketing for a bit, and it's very, very hard to keep momentum or optimism when you have to think about marketing. Or when I have to. Now I'm thinking about stories again, which is much better, and have a short-list of marketing-related tasks I will accomplish in the next week, and that's all right too because I can just do it and not think about it too much. Right? Okay then.

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Re: "So... what's a sampo?"

[roane.livejournal.com]

Hee. The question was actually a quote from said MST3K episode, but surprisingly, The Day the Earth Froze seems to have gotten it at least somewhat right. Their Sampo made salt and gold, and if I remember correctly, bread.

And now I'm thoroughly intrigued by what you're working on.

Re: "So... what's a sampo?"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Good! It's my easiest book to talk about in general and my hardest book to talk about in specific. It's got the tag-lines all set up, but then the specifics get complicated very quickly.

I'm still thinking of it as one book, even though it is now clearly two. Or three, depending on where you're counting from. Sigh.