Anybody remember May?

I do. Barely.

It was a full-on month, the 2012 edition of the lusty month of May, and when it was done, I figured “Yeah, the rough part of this summer is done. i can now kick back and coast until Dragon*Con (which Pip and I had already committed to last year). Nothing to worry about.”

I really have to learn to not say things like that. As August looms ahead, I’m now looking at the unintentional tour schedule Pip and I have cobbled together between June and now.

Mark your calendars…because we sure have!

August 8-12, New Orleans, Louisiana

Watch the Skies

August 25, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

alongside the steampunk talents of…

• Pip Ballantine, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
• Sarah Hunter, Brute Force Studios
• Jared Axelrod, writer of The Battle of Blood and Ink
• Steve Walker, artist of The Battle of Blood and Ink

Dragon*Con

August 31- September 3, Atlanta, Georgia

• The Retro-Cast: Steampunk Podcasting & More – Fri. 8:30pm in Westin Int’l BC (Main Room)
• The World Is Bigger Than England: Multi-Culturalism in the Alternate History Environment — Saturday 2:30pm in Westin Int’l A (Roundtable Room)
• The Parsec Awards — Saturday, 4:30pm in the Regency V Ballroom — Hyatt
• The Tech Stuff (hosted by Steve Riekeberg) — Saturday, 8pm in Hilton 204
• Steampunk Author Roundtable (Part 1) – Sunday 1oam in Westin Int’l A (Roundtable Room)
• Book Signing, The Missing Volume, Sunday 1:30-2:30 in Marriott Booth 614
• Social Steam: Steampunk, Social Media, and Making It Work – Monday 10am in Westin Int’l A (Roundtable Room)
• Steampunk 101 — Monday, 11:30 a.m. at Hyatt Embassy D-F
• How Do You Take Your Steampunk — Light or Dark? – Monday 1pm in Westin Int’l A (Roundtable Room)

Write by the Rails (at Trinity Church, Manassas, VA)

8 September

Baltimore Book Festival

28-30 September

No, I didn’t plan the end of my summer to be as full-on as the opening of it, but for those of you who have been following my works over the years, you know what I’m going to do — lock my feet under the car’s inside lip, raise my hands up, and enjoy the ride!

See you all in the dog days of summer.