Met new Edge-ite Tina Hunter at Con-Version 25 in Calgary. She's the one with dark hair on the left in this picture of my panel in the "Lit/books/reading" stream entitled "Women who don't kick butt. Can they still win hearts and minds?" Tina has published short fiction with Edge. Sandra Fitzpatrick is the participant on the right. The book she has in front of her is a copy of the first edition of Opus 2 (the 2nd Okal Rel anthology) which she undertook to get signed by the Calgary contributors (including herself). Now it is my job to get the B.C. contributors to sign it and send it on to collector Peter Halasz. I suggested this panel topic based on my experience with Sam O'Pearl, the "girl next door" type of Demish princess who enters the Okal Rel Saga in Part 6: Avim's Oath. Although a princess (meaning she is more than 50% Sevolite), Sam is small potatoes in the Demish hierarchy. And although she is a bit of a tom-boy adventurer in the context of the parochial neighborhood where she grew up, she is way out of her league in that regard on Gelion. But she's fun, resilient and most of all a feeling, breathing character with plenty of life challenges to work through.

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Had a good visit with family and friends at the Prince George Exhibition earlier this month, where anthology author Elizabeth Woods and I manned the P.G. Library's author table. Not particularly an SF crowd passing through but we had a good time hanging out. Great popcorn. And discovered super-cold ice cream chips.

PS Just back from Conversion 25 in Calgary today, but David Lott's file transfer batch job is hanging on the home network and I'm away again starting tomorrow, so pictures from Con-version will have to wait until the weekend. :-( Met some new Edge people (new to me at least), bought a sword, did two panels, and took pictures to help me remember and share.

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"I am really enjoying The Courtesan Prince so have to read the next one
to find out what happens with the characters. Great to hear you only
have three more to go -- it's really hard for readers to have to wait."

Bonny Remple, NCLF Coordinator Burns Lake, BC. (w permission) Aug 2009

I met Bonny Remple at a presentation I gave for district public librarians at the P.G. Public Library. Hope to be making some appearances in her library district at schools or libaries in the coming year.

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Krysia Anderson, author of an Okal Rel story in the 2nd anthology (Opus 2), is the one in the middle, performing at the P.G. Exhibition.

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Nathalie and Tyler are pictured here at Nathalie's book launch for her 2nd novel in the Prince Amir fastasy mystery series, The King's Daughters. Tyler Clarke of Cutbanks Magazine was busy interviewing her when I took the picture.

Took a second picture of Nathalie with my husband, David Lott, which I shared on Sci-Fi Talk.

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Okal Rel shows up as a series with these tags on Library Thing. Tag clouds are sort of a visual elevator speech. Interesting description, on the site, of what a series is, and isn't. Nifty example of where a literary definition has an applied purpose.

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Jennifer Lott and Brianna Thomas have out the next installment in the youtube experiment of telling the story of ORU novella Mekan'stan as a digital story.

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Tyler Clarke of Cutbanks magazine in Prince George writes (04 Aug 09):

"... This is very interesting. Thank you for your interest, and I will certainly publish this in the religion issue, which should be December. If you're interested, this month I'm working on a feature on homelessness in Prince George ... and I am excited about your column!
The first issue of Cutbanks, with the feature about yourself, was distributed around UNBC this morning, so you should be able to find it somewhere."

I am striving to provide a column for each themed edition of Cutbanks, in a similiar vein to the "Thoughts from Another Universe" feature I've been doing for the Northern Log. Each should be 300-400 words. The article Tyler is referring to, on religion, attempts to connect my life experience to my portrayal of the good and bad of man's spiritual nature in the Okal Rel Unvierse series.

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