Now Where Did I Park My TARDIS

In seven hours I’ll be taking off on very long drive from NJ to Greensburg, PA. I really can’t wait to get there. A lot of friends, many of whom are the future faces of horror, will be graduating on Sunday and this is my first trip as an alum to the Seton Hill Writer’s Retreat. Unfortunately, I won’t get a chance to pitch to the three agents that will be there this year, but I will be supporting a lot of friends who will and I will try to at least pick the brains of one of during my stay.

But the big thing that I’m both giddy and nervous about is the Barnes & Noble signing on Friday night. It’s my first one, hopefully it will be gentle on me. I will admit that I feel odd since all I have published at the moment is just one story in anthology, but it is also a great anthology and I’m thinking of it not only as a way to promote myself, but the other contributors, the editor, and the publisher. All of whom did an amazing job on it an I’m lucky to be a part of it.

If it like every other time I’ve been at SHU for a residency. There will be some classic moments. Granted it will be hard to top the epic battle of Farrell Hall, in which I sacrificed myself to onslaught of paper towels and bread and charged the fortification of the other side while roaring, “Thundercats, Ho!” But I bet e will find ways to get get into trouble as any good writer can do.

Besides fun and games, though, I do hope to get some work done too. I’m hoping to start my Wizard of Oz story and my story for Horror Library vol. 4, codenamed “Project Green & Magenta,” while I’m there. Even just a few our of complete peace I could probably churn out one, if not both of them. I also have to find time to talk to Kate Martin and see if she wants to start working on our TV show pitch. If not, I might start working on one of the non-fiction books, a collection of personal essays centered around the idea of wisdom and what that is today.

So who knows where I’ll be this next week. I’ll try to post mini up dates, but the bulk of it I’m going to try and keep for the travel vlog that I will upload when I get back. I might be on Twitter, but it depends on access to internet and what I’m up to each day. If I don’t get to talk you while I’m gone, take care and have a wonderful week. Do everything I would and some of the things I wouldn’t and I’ll see you all when I get back.

Horror Ho!

~ by wdprescott on June 23, 2009.