So, it appears I'm going to be on some panels at Wiscon. I've just received my list:

Children's and YA publishing: What Not to Do (Writing SF&F: The Business)
Saturday, 10:00-11:15 a.m. Saturday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.

Welcome to Our Worlds (Readings)
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m. Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m. in Conference Room 2

The End Of Reductionism? (Science and Technology)
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 a.m. Sunday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.

Writing fantasy for Young Adults and kids (Writing SF&F: The Business)
Sunday, 1:00-2:15 p.m. Sunday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Erk! I've never been on a panel before. I don't know how to do a panel. I don't know anything about any of these topics. Why did I agree to this? Whose idea was this? I need to go and have a lie down. Gah.

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I launched into a new novel a couple of days ago. Again. This one is going to be the sequel to the novel I finished in February, The All-Father. Maybe I'll read a bit of that one at Wiscon. The new novel is called The Trickster. I'm kind of regretting planning a trilogy now. The first novel was easy. It was just fun. I wrote whatever I wanted, just using the rule that what I wrote had to be the most exciting and most fun stuff I could manage. Now I'm on the second book, I've got all that weight of the first novel sitting behind me, distorting everything like a black hole. Now it's not easy at all. How did that happen?

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It's almost Easter. I gave up chocolate and alcohol for lent, and now that it's almost over it's got really hard. I think it's having Easter eggs and champagne in the house. Will power has never been my strong point.

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Mostly we've stopped using our own broadband and we've been piggybacking on our neighbour's wireless network. Only it's turning out to be a bit unreliable, particularly when she's using it herself. We've been considering going around to complain...