Quick post this morning as I need to be out the door shortly. I’m putting Dani and the baby in the car and taking them to my parents’ house, then my partner in crime/evil twin Jay Franco and I are heading up to Albany, NY for Albacon. I will be on a handful of panels at the convention, talking about worldbuilding, writing strong female characters, and a host of other subjects. If you’re in the Albany area, I suggest you swing by. Should be a fun time. I’ll blog all about it when I get back.

In the meantime, I want to point everyone to an interview I did with Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. Pat contacted my UK editor a few days ago, and asked if I would be interested in doing an interview. I do a lot of trolling around the internet, looking at what people are saying about my work on blogs and forums, and I was interested to see that on the Westeros forum (shame on you if you don’t know what it’s named after) there was a pretty active thread about The Painted Man, which included some comments from Pat himself, who has been really friendly.

I’ve done a half dozen interviews by now, and felt a lot of them were a little stiff, and that I was just regurgitating some of the same answers over and over, so I tried really hard this time to relax into the interview and just be my usual dorky self. It was pretty fun. I need to keep reminding myself that author interviews are not job interviews. I don’t need to wear a shirt & tie.

Anyway, time to bathe and pack up the baby. Have a good weekend, all.