Sunday 3rd March, 2013

This week was a resting on laurels week: 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf has a new home! With Fox Spirit Books [External Link]. Maybe doing the Next Big Thing worked for me, after all? Anyway, this means that the real work begins – or so I’m told. So far this translates as me doing a small amount of editing while not procrastinating (playing cards on the computer). I have no doubt it’ll get harder.

I also have a couple of shorter works in the editing queue and may or may not get around to completing something for the Dragonpunk anthology [External Link].

This may or may not make up for the fact that Saturday got away from me and I spent the day sulking at home instead of doing what I’d planned because I basically couldn’t cope with acting like a normal human being. (Hear that? That’s the little voice that likes to tell me I’ve failed again.) To explain a little bit, things started to go wrong – I forgot things and had to come back, Rosie had been bad in the going-to-the-toilet-in-the-house department – and I just couldn’t cope with being the person who turned up an hour or more late and was the object of attention because of it. I stayed home and felt pathetic instead. Sorry.

Sunday 27th January, 2013

It’s a fencing week this week, starting with the events currently in the sticky slider on the front page (in date order):

I should be attending the SSS Sheffield events and I’ve just booked my place at SWASH (including the dinner) – but I may slope off to watch Scotland vs. Wales on the Saturday.

Further dates for events that I may be going to but don’t currently have enough detail to put up a link for are:

  • April 13th, SSS Sheffield freeplay session
  • May 11th, SSS Sheffield freeplay session
  • August 10th – 11th, Fechtschule York
  • August 16th – 18th, Fightcamp 2013
  • October 19th – 20th, Smallsword Symposium V

(And if you can think of any that I ought to mention, whether or not I can attend, let me know.)

In keeping with the theme, I have two new pages, having written something about the latest addition to the Knight Shop waster set and my second hand Federschwert.

To cap it all off, there’s been a call for submissions to a “dragonpunk” anthology that aims to turn the privilege of medieval-style high fantasy upside down (Combustion Books: [External Link]). And a similar point of view on high / medieval Europe based fantasy can also be found in an older post on the Future Fire Editor’s Blog (“L is for Low Fantasy” [ target=”_blank”>External Link]).