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It’s been a very long time since we plucked my magic twanger, I do know.

No, I’ve not forgotten how you can weblog.  I simply haven’t had the time, or the vitality.  Too a lot else to do, too many tasks, too many deadlines, and I used to be behind on every little thing.   Too a lot dying as nicely; we misplaced some shut pals throughout the previous few months, together with artists, writers, and different celebrities whose work meant lots to us, even when we didn’t know them personally.  I needed to speak about all of that.

Oh, and politics… I’ve avoided making any touch upon the issues happening in the actual world this final yr, however that doesn’t imply I’ve nothing to say.

Had I discovered time again within the fall, I may need made some soccer posts too, as I’ve in previous years, however given the seasons the Jets and the Giants had, it was simply as nicely I didn’t.   I’m not that masochistic.

I’ve been on the highway lots as nicely, greater than I’ve been for the previous a number of years; with A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS set to debut in January there was a number of promotion to do.   There was worldcon in Seattle, Bubonicon in Albuquerque, the New York City Comicon, two weeks within the United Kingdom to talk at Oxford, go to my British publishers in London, try Stratford-upon-Avon, and return to Belfast the place Ira, Peter, Dexter, and the remainder of their merry firm have been filming the second season of Dunk and Egg, primarily based on my novella “The Sworn Sword.”   Most just lately, I used to be in Berlin for the world premiere  HBO’s adaptation of “The Hedge Knight,” the primary season of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS.

The final time I visited Germany was 1 / 4 century in the past… it got here as an actual shock once I realized that, it didn’t appear practically so lengthy.   The years do go by shortly.

I hoped to weblog about all of this… however there was simply a lot, and day-after-day it appeared there was extra.   I choose to not lug a pc together with me once I journey.  (I attempted it, many years in the past, and it by no means labored).   I do have a employees of loyal minions who care for my Not A Blog for me once I can not, and so they stuffed in for me a bit, in the beginning a minimum of.  The weblog posts that went up on November 10, December 12, and December 15, which you’ll discover under, have been all Minion Posts.  The final one I posted myself was “Dunk & Egg Take the Big Apple,” which went up on October 7, after I received house from the NYC Comicon, earlier than journey, deadlines, deaths, and the like left me overwhelmed.

I’m again at house in Santa Fe finally, I’m happy to say, settling again in at my laptop within the Land of Enhantment.  Trying to cowl every little thing that’s occurred since October in a single gulp would require a weblog put up so long as one in every of my novels, I worry, so I’m not going to try this.  I do wish to catch up some, nevertheless, so I  as an alternative I hope to do a sequence of quick mini-posts right here, to the touch on issues each massive and small… although not within the element I may need had I not fallen up to now behind.   We’ll see how that goes.   Watch this house.   (I anticipate the posts to be everywhere.   So a lot to cowl).

It has been an thrilling half yr.  “Interesting times,” because the notorious proverb says.

But it’s good to be house.

Current Mood: burdened