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rj_andersonI just got an e-mail from Laurie R. King telling me she's paid the entire registration fee for me to go to Bouchercon 2004 in October. She said it was a thank-you gift for running RUSS-L all these years.
*takes deep breath*
EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh why oh why oh why do I not have Case of the Winning Woman finished? Or my modern mystery novel? There will be agents and editors there and aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggh.
Except that aside from Laurie, there is not a single author on the (very long) list of attending mystery authors whose books I have actually read. I've heard of Val McDermid, Sara Paretsky, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson, but haven't actually read any of their stuff. I think my brother might be a Rankin reader though, come to think of it...
*clicks randomly around Bouchercon site, in a state of dizzy excitement*
Woo! JKR is up for "Best Young Adult Mystery" in the Anthony Awards, for OotP! (Er... how weird is that, really?)
Oh, man, I cannot believe this. I'm already thinking -- I could stay with my brother, who has an apartment in downtown Toronto, and I could take the subway (I love the subway), and if I sign up in time I could go to the Sisters in Crime high tea and...
Did I say EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! yet?
And now I feel extra guilty that I have done such a crap job of updating The Beekeeper's Holmes Page and associated documents over the past couple of years.
Laurie OWNS.
ETA: The guilt is assuaged -- I have updated the web page, the FAQ and the group's list of acronyms. Phew. *feels better*
*takes deep breath*
EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh why oh why oh why do I not have Case of the Winning Woman finished? Or my modern mystery novel? There will be agents and editors there and aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggh.
Except that aside from Laurie, there is not a single author on the (very long) list of attending mystery authors whose books I have actually read. I've heard of Val McDermid, Sara Paretsky, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson, but haven't actually read any of their stuff. I think my brother might be a Rankin reader though, come to think of it...
*clicks randomly around Bouchercon site, in a state of dizzy excitement*
Woo! JKR is up for "Best Young Adult Mystery" in the Anthony Awards, for OotP! (Er... how weird is that, really?)
Oh, man, I cannot believe this. I'm already thinking -- I could stay with my brother, who has an apartment in downtown Toronto, and I could take the subway (I love the subway), and if I sign up in time I could go to the Sisters in Crime high tea and...
Did I say EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! yet?
And now I feel extra guilty that I have done such a crap job of updating The Beekeeper's Holmes Page and associated documents over the past couple of years.
Laurie OWNS.
ETA: The guilt is assuaged -- I have updated the web page, the FAQ and the group's list of acronyms. Phew. *feels better*
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Date: 2004-08-11 10:09 am (UTC)*dances*
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Date: 2004-08-11 10:13 am (UTC)WHOO!!
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Date: 2004-08-11 11:04 am (UTC)And Val McDermid... ! I adore her "Wire in the Blood" series.
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Date: 2004-08-11 11:16 am (UTC)Huh - I haven't heard of a lot of the authors either, though I'm definitely a Rankin fan, but the one name that jumped out was Jane Peterson Burfield, who's a piffle friend (one of those I had lunch with in London) - you probably met her at least briefly at the dinner in Stratford, and you should try to get together with her at the con. She is a dear.
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Date: 2004-08-11 11:48 am (UTC)You best start reading up on your mystery novels, it seems. ;)
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Date: 2004-08-11 03:57 pm (UTC)I've read Val McDermid -- her Wire in the Blood series is very good. Although I'm a Bad Fan, and I think the TV series it inspired is better than the books. (This is the one starring Robson Green, who disturbs me by simultaneously looking like Jason Isaacs and Alan Rickman, depending on the camera ange.)
This is awesome!
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Date: 2004-08-11 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-11 06:36 pm (UTC)(And I meant what I said earlier -- if you want me to do a redesign of the page I will)
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Date: 2004-08-12 10:47 am (UTC)Takes one to know one, maybe?
Enjoy--you deserve it, especially with everything else going on now!
Naomi
Sara Paretsky??
Date: 2004-08-12 12:31 pm (UTC)Taiamu, posting anonymously from work
In *TORONTO*???
Date: 2004-08-15 07:24 pm (UTC)A MYSTERY convention?
On my BIRTHDAY?
TWO HOURS from where I live?
And Laurie's going to BE THERE?
*blinks*
Any chance of a Canadian bee gathering?