*tap tap tap* Is this thing on?

So yeah, if you’re reading this, you’re either visiting my shiny new official writer-type page at angelakorrati.com, or else you’re seeing a mirrored post over to my Livejournal and JournalFen accounts. Either way, hiya. This is the inaugural post to break in my actual writer site.

Not too much to report here yet and probably won’t be until Faerie Blood comes out. I’m still awaiting the proposed cover art and requested edits from my editor, which will hopefully come in soon. We’re tentatively aiming to have FB ready to come out by March.

In the meantime, for those of you who haven’t already, I invite you to go around to Drollerie Press in general, and in particular, check out the first official Drollerie Authors Blog Tour.

If you’re already reading my LJ, you don’t also have to follow angelakorrati.com; I’ll be mirroring its posts over to Livejournal. Angelakorrati.com’s posts will be exclusively about writing news and interesting things happening with the books.

But regardless of how you read me, glad to see you doing so. Watch this space, whatever space that might be, for more!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Anna's one-day Conflikt amusements

solarbird and I quite enjoyed going down to Conflikt yesterday for a one-day hang-out. We got down there earlyish in the afternoon, missing some of the beginning panels, but making it down in time to wander around the dealers' room, see various people, and do some hanging out playing where people could hear us.

technoshaman was one of the first people we ran into, and he made good on his promise to treat me to anything in the dealers' room by way of a birthday present. I took him up on that and had him buy me a nifty Dr. Horrible t-shirt. But I wound up picking up music as well: cadhla's Red Roses and Dead Things, which I'd already pre-ordered, and a new Pern music CD by the same folks who did this one.

Also bumped into elfs and omahas and their younguns, and had pleasant chats with them. And, there was maellenkleth as well, albeit briefly and in passing.

I periodically had to duck to the lobby to keep tabs on my email so that I could get the post up about the Drollerie blog tour--but once that was done, I joined Dara in hanging out in one of the open filk rooms and just playing stuff. She'd already attracted a bit of an audience, which was cool. But while I was in there with her, a little girl came in and was absolutely floored by the mandolin. It was great how she reacted to it, and kept dancing around while we were playing. Aw. <3

And, I had the pleasure of meeting Batya Wittenberg, who apparently is someone else who's actually filked Great Big Sea. And done it quite effectively, I might add! There we were singing songs about weird relationships, which slid into songs about nasty intentions, and I couldn't follow Dara so I announced I was going to sing a drinking song instead. I launched into "Old Black Rum"--and Batya knew it. There are few things more satisfying than belting out a Great Big Sea song in a place where I don't expect people to back me up, and then they do, and it's awesome.

The main highlight of the entire day was of course the evening concerts. The first one of the evening was actually the one in which I had the most interest--because I'd heard very good things about Marian Call, and I very much wanted to hear her perform. She turned out to be quite good, and I was happy to buy both of her albums afterward.

Second performer of the evening was a bit of a shock to Dara and me, coming as we did out of Midwest fandom--Frank Hayes! I told Dara he was going to be at the convention and she blinked and went "He's still alive?!" Hee. He is. And it was gratifying to see that he could still bring the Funny. He managed to broadside Dara with a pun about a "parody/parity error" in the middle of a computer geekery song.

And, I'll have to admit, it was kind of satisfying to be able to recognize at least two thirds of the songs he references in "The 12 Years of Worldcon".

Last but not least was the mighty cadhla, backed up by vixyish and tfabris and several other folks with whom I was not familiar. Very solid performance despite issues with the sound mixing, and in particular I liked the "big bucket of Creepy" that is the song "Gina" off the new album. My inner Browncoat must always squee at "Evil Laugh", but I also have to say that my inner Elvis fangirl, with the affection she has for Elvis-era rock, squees harder at "Pretty Little Dead Girl".

So yeah. Nice experience all around, and although I didn't go back down with Dara today on account of needing to take care of various things around the house, I'm going to have to consider the full weekend next year.

Because next year? They're getting filkertom.