The periodic welcome post.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to my journal. I'm pretty sure you know who I am, my name being in the URL and all, but just in case, I'm Seanan McGuire (also known as Mira Grant), and you're probably not on Candid Camera. This post exists to answer a few of the questions I get asked on a semi-hemi-demi-regular basis. It may look familiar; that's because it gets updated and re-posted roughly every two months, to let folks who've just wandered in know how things work around here. Also, sometimes I change the questions. Because I can.

If you've read this before, feel free to skip, although there may be interesting new things to discover and know beyond the cut.

Anyway, here you go:

( This way lies a lot of information you may or may not need about the person whose LJ you may or may not be reading right at this moment. Also, I may or may not be the King of Rain, which may or may not explain why it's drizzling right now. Essentially, this is Schrodinger's cut-tag. )

To the west, to the west: Seanan is a Westercon Guest of Honor!

I am pleased to announce what some of you already know: that the 2015 Westercon will be held in scenic San Diego, California, and that I will be attending as their Fan Guest of Honor, thus checking off one of the only two slots remaining on my con guest bingo card! (The other, "Artist Guest," is unlikely to happen unless I start painting again, so I feel that I have now completed my duties.) The full lineup is:

Author Guest of Honor: Spider Robinson
Artist Guest of Honor: John Picacio
Special Guest: William F. Nolan

Westercon 68 will be held over the July 4th weekend in 2015 (July 2nd to 5th), and I very much hope to see you all there!

Westercon!

A few notes on comments.

Hey, guys, just a few things:

1. I try to answer all top-level comments on posts that do not have comment amnesty (giveaways automatically have comment amnesty). I will not join an ongoing thread unless I really want to.

2. Please do not edit your comments eight times. This floods my already overflowing inbox, and forces me to wade through duplicates looking for things that need answers. Please don't edit at all, unless you really need to.

3. Yes, LJ marks links as spam. I manually unspam all non-spam links. Please don't report that your first comment got spam-filed, or re-post repeatedly trying to avoid being flagged and hidden. I will manually unscreen you, I promise. But it takes longer when you hit my inbox with the wrath of an angry beehive.

Thanks, all. You're great.