The month of May, thus far

I had these good intentions of blogging while on booktour and that totally didn’t happen. For the first three or four days, I was sick and no one wanted to hear me talk about how many handkerchiefs I went through in an hour.

So, instead, I have for you a random collection of photographs from the tour and a brief summary.

In short, Marie Brennan is a great deal of fun to tour with. In many ways, it was like touring with Lady Trent herself, minus the danger. In addition to a very fine reading from Voyage of the Basilisk, she brought dragon bones with her and gave a short naturalist lecture about the specimens in her collection. In full costume.

You see why we got along.

From there I went on to the RT Booklovers Convention. It was my first time there and, despite my concerns that as an SFF writer I would be an outsider, I was made to feel thoroughly welcome.

Oh, and Without a Summer won Best Fantasy Novel of the Year, so that was lovely, too.

I spent the time that I wasn’t at RT palling around New Orleans with Diana Rowland, who is one of my favorite authors and makes a wonderful host. If she suggests a restaurant, just say “yes.”

From there, I boarded the train and rode back to Chicago in style in a sleeper car. Twenty days is too long to be away from home and husband. I am trying to remember how we did it when I was gone for months at a time with puppetry.