{"id":1231,"date":"2011-06-05T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2011-06-05T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:57:24","slug":"but-not-for-long-a-kon-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"But Not For Long&#8230;A-Kon looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday I take off again, this time on a shorter train trip to A-Kon in Dallas.\u00a0 A-Kon is technically within driving distance, but driving up I-35 from here and then trying to negotiate Dallas traffic is no way to arrive at a convention with the energy left to engage.\u00a0 Hence, the train.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m going up on Thursday, back on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My friend Lee Martindale (writer, editor, and several other hats, including&#8211;as of now&#8211;publisher)\u00a0 is launching <em>Ladies of Trade Town<\/em> at A-Kon, an anthology of stories about, well, the trade.)\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote the introduction.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of the stories&#8217; authors are coming to the launch, and so am I.\u00a0 And some other people I&#8217;ve been wanting to see.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been to A-Kon, so it&#8217;ll be a new experience for me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What this means, however, is another hiatus in blog posts here (or a very short one or two) because I&#8217;m still not really recovered and re-organized from the Balticon trip, and I need to write a lot of words and do essential shopping (that Mac-horse&#8217;s colic prevented last trip) to set up for the rest of the summer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My watch band is about to fall off and the watch needs a new battery;\u00a0 I need some essential (but not discussable) garments;\u00a0 the pantry is low on some basic supplies, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And though I made progress on Book IV on the Balticon trip, I didn&#8217;t make enough, and really need to press ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 So there will be gaps in coverage here.\u00a0 I know I haven&#8217;t responded to all comments (or all my email, some of which MUST be done before I leave again, and ditto with the actual mail.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday I take off again, this time on a shorter train trip to A-Kon in Dallas.\u00a0 A-Kon is technically within driving distance, but driving up I-35 from here and then trying to negotiate Dallas traffic is no way to arrive at a convention with the energy left to engage.\u00a0 Hence, the train.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112,31,107],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}