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OK, this is just cool.

ArtLog: incipient new work!
Right, I forgot to say: there are two new necklaces and a bunch of earrings. Expect an updated list of shinies posted later today with photos. Whee!

Reminder: Fourth Street Fantasy Convention!
Hey, are you on this list yet? If not, now's a good time to sign up.

I've got a personal interest in this, because I'm throwing a party with reading on Friday night, and I want to see lots of fun folks there.

Also, there's that chapbook of Artists' Challenge stories and poems in the works which you might have heard me speak of, yes? Current line-up includes Elizabeth Bear, Ariel Hudson-Franklin, Betsy Lundsten, Beth Meacham, Sarah Monette, Jane Yolen, and an introduction from Lois McMaster Bujold. There will be 300 numbered copies. There will be a pre-sale available only to those with a Fourth Street membership; copies will be available at the convention and afterwards from me, but you can only pre-order if you'll have a membership. The book launch will happen at the party -- which means you'll have a chance to ask some of the contributors to sign, either that night or during the weekend of the convention.

Anyhow, do sign up, eh? It'll make things easier for the planners. Thanks!

psst! wanna help me out and thereby get a chance to win a prize?
So here's the problem: yesterday I heard somebody say, "Fourth Street Fantasy Convention? Oh, yeah, I heard something about... oh, wait, isn't that convention invitational?" Which, you know, it is so very not. Although it's been a little quiet on the publicity end, this revival of the legendary Minneapolis-based fantasy convention of decades back is cheerfully open to everybody who wants to get a membership, and I hope lots of people do, because I'm throwing this big party on Friday night, and Bear and Sarah and some other folks are going to read necklace challenge stories and other Artists' Challenge works, and the more people who are there, the better it'll be.

So here's the offer: if you publicise the convention in your LJ or anywhere else on-line, and link to the Fourth Street website or to my post about my party, and you send me a link (or post it here), I will put you in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate, to be drawn during the convention. Winner need not be present*. If you like, you can go ahead and tell people you're posting this because I am bribing you with this because I want lots of people at my party to celebrate and to hear Bear and Sarah and everybody read cool challenge stuff... and tell them that if they put up the link too, I will bribe them with a similar chance.

OK. That's what I want. Please? Help make my party (and the convention) a good big one!

Signed, a Lioness greedy for fun

* though if you are, I'll double the amount of that gift certificate!