Mark Finn (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} finnswake) wrote,@ 2007-06-12 13:07:00 |
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| Current location: | Lofting It |
| Current mood: |  groggy |
| Current music: | something indistinct in the other room |
A small (but kinda big) Finn's Wake update
It’s been a busy month, and I’m sorry I haven’t sent something out sooner. But it’s with a pretty good reason or two. Hopefully, this will make up for it all.
I got a call from Bill Willingham in April. He had an interesting proposal for me: “I’m renting the Rudyard Kipling house in Vermont, and I’m inviting you, Matt, Chris, and Bill Williams to come up and have a writer’s retreat here.”
When I told Cathy that this would be the first-ever Clockwork Storybook reunion in several years, all she said was, “You gotta go.”
That’s why I married her, right there, folks.
The Trip to Vermont Starts right here: http://finnswake.livejournal.com/35644.h
Pictures of the Vermont excursion can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnswake/s
In other news, I’ve won one and a quarter Cimmerian Awards this year: http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=685
The whole award I won was for Blood & Thunder. I’m really pleased, since this award comes from my peers in the REH community. The other award, I’m sharing with my fellow bloggers at The Cimmerian website; we won the award for best website with our group blog. I ended up accepting for all of us, but only because Rob and Leo wouldn’t get up to do it. Still, it’s pretty cool and very flattering.
I won’t know until next weekend how the Locus Awards shook out. I doubt that I’ll be called upon to provide a mailing address for the trophy, however. And it won’t be until the end of the month that we’ll find out if Blood & Thunder was nominated for a World Fantasy award. I’m deliberately not thinking about either one; it does no good to dwell on such things. Really, I’m just happy about my third Cimmerian along with the nomination in Locus. There may be a hardcover edition yet, if the buzz keeps up.
The theater is, of course, doing very well. We’re busy, and the attendance is great, and the money is tight, and it’s all very First Year in Business, now, isn’t it? Seriously, there’s a lot of blood, sweat, and tears but it’s all for the best. Now that we’re settling into the groove, the Plaza Loft is getting worked on and some of our other projects are starting to shape up. The summer is being very good to us, so far (go knock on some wood, will you?), and we’re overall very pleased that our first year is going as well as it has so far.
Okay, that’s the big news. I’m going to let you get back to your day, now.
