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ALL the updates! Hugo! Solo! Florence!

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Mur
Matt Wallace and Mur. Hugo-winning Ditch Diggers, bitches.

You know when you’re distracted from something and then you don’t do the thing you usually do? Blogging, podcasting, whatever? And then more time goes by, and then you’re not doing it because doing it will shine a light on the fact that you HAVEN’T done it and your paralyzed and never create again and hope the world will forget about you instead of remember how you dropped the ball?

OK I’m exaggerating a little, but that’s what’s up.

In my defense, my last month has been: Worldcon–>Family vacation–>Grinding on intense deadline–>School started–>Launch of Solo–>weekend-long Bookburners meetings–>OMG Here comes a big hurricane–>OMG a big hurricane is here–>OMG I haven’t blogged or podcasted in a REALLY LONG TIME.

So let’s get to the news, starting with the most recent thing first:

  1. Florence: We are fine. Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina and South Carolina last weekend, and wandered slowly through the state, dumping lots and lots of rain. The flooding was catastrophic. Oddly enough, when we thought our area would get hit with the eye, the storm turned and moved south of us, then turned north. We got wind, rain, Fiona’s school lost a big tree, but our area is largely unscathed. We did have some excitement yesterday when the last tail end of the storm whipped around and smacked us, letting Durham get a taste of the flooding and tornadoes that the rest of the state has suffered, but that didn’t last too long. If you can give to hurricane relief to help the eastern part of the state, please do.
  2. Bookburners Season 5 has started production. We had our yearly meeting and worked out the story beats for the final season, and got outlines done.
  3. Solo! My Star Wars novelization came out to excellent reviews, and I’m thrilled at the whole experience. It’s still available, naturally.
  4. REDACTED Deadline: I finished another big project, but as it hasn’t been announced yet, I can’t say anything. Dangit.
  5. Burying the Lede- Ditch Diggers won a hugo! WorldCon in San Jose was amazing, and I was so thrilled to win Best Fancast with Matt Wallace. I’m not as good at con write-ups as others, so I’ll post some pictures and call it good. (Also it’s a month old so it’s not as timely anyway.) Thanks to everyone who voted for us! — Also, in case you’re wondering, I was neither surprised nor upset to lose the other two categories I was nominated in. I got to see N.K. Jemisin make history that night. I did attend the Loser’s Party, but had to wear a shameful hat even though I lost 2 of 3 Hugos. (I’ve never been so happy to be booed.)
Jim and I are always the picture of class.
Ursula Vernon, Kevin Sonney, and I are never the picture of class.
Bill Hutson of clipping., me, composer Micaela Tobin, and editor Navah Wolfe. The chicken hat is for shame because I showed up to the losers party.
Close up of chicken hat, and close up of Gail Carriger, godmother of Ditch Diggers.