I spent last weekend and the first part of this week with pamrentz, spitkitten, and chris_reynaga. It was wonderful to enjoy the electric company (hah!) of these talented, loving, warm, funny people. Caren was a fabulous hostess, Pam rocked my world (as usual), and Chris was his usual entertaining self.

chris_reynaga and I attended Charles De Lint's workshop on Heroes and Villians, which was informative, insightful, and where Chris completely shook the place up. He's a talented writer (and musician) -- you'll be seeing his name all over the place soon enough.

I could blog more about the weekend, but my classmates have already done a fine job of it, and so I'll direct you to their entries:

Spitkitten
Chris_Reynaga

I'd also like to point you here. Clarion West has received a Challenge Grant from Amazon. I strongly encourage you to look into the details.

I'm going to be in Seattle this weekend for the De Lint workshop. That's really excellent; I enjoy Charles De Lint as much as the next girl.

HOWEVER, what I'm really excited about is that I get to hang out with fellow classmates chris_reynaga, pamrentz, and spitkitten. Hopefully Pritpaul Baines will also make it down. I also have plans to see a couple of other lovely writers I met whilst there this summer.

There will be much lovely writerly geekery afoot.

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Still pounding away on the current WIP. I'm very grateful for rewrites.