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I chatted with my editor a week or two back, and I’m hoping to get the final draft of Libriomancer finished today … which means all you get in the blog are a pair of links and some LEGO niftiness. Link the First: Today is the last day of Pat Rothfuss’ Worldbuilders fundraiser, which has raised more than a quarter of a million dollars this year. The list of signed books and other prizes is like Santa smashed open the pinata of fandom, and an endless waterfall of awesomeness began pouring out. Link the Second: The Con or Bust auction, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions, begins on February 11 at 12:01 EST. Details here. Finally, I present to you the U. S. S. Reliant, in LEGO. (In the Mutara nebula, no less!) The only thing that could make this better would be a minifig of Ricardo Montalban holding a cute little plastic Ceti eel. This was built by Christer Nyberg, aka Myko. Click here or on the pic for the full photo set.
A friend asked me about how I balance writing, blogging, family, and everything else in my schedule. In part, I do this by trying to prepare blog posts over the weekend. But then you get weekends where there’s an ice cream/dodge ball event for my son, then a day-and-a-half karate workshop, and then the joys of pushing our minivan out of a snowy ditch. (Everyone’s fine, and the van is undamaged.) So instead of the book review or the guest blog post or anything else I had planned, y’all get a few bullet points instead, ’cause that’s all the brain I had left.
Finally, have some LEGO Quiddich. This set was part of Brickvention in Melbourne. It was built by Jennie Sasson, and the photo is by Shannon Ocean. Click the pic for a larger view, or here for a second shot of the match (with thestrals!)
Multiple things making me cranky today, so here, have a LEGO Saturn V rocket, built by Ryan McNaught.
This thing is almost nineteen feet tall, made of approximately 120,000 bricks. Click on the picture for the full photoset. I’ve posted a lot of LEGO stuff here, but this is one of my favorites. It’s such an awesome and loving tribute to the real thing. Magick4Terri - A fundraiser for editor and author Terri Windling, with auctions for items of amazing niftiness, donated from a number of skilled and talented people. (LJ has been under a DDoS attack again, so if you can’t get through, just try a little later.)
From Raphael Heusser, the Millennium McQueen, a LEGO mash-up between Cars and Star Wars. I am most impressed at how well this works. Click here or on the pic for more photos.
ETA: I’ve added links to YouTube for anyone having trouble seeing the embedded videos. 1) Via tor.com, clips of various Muppets trying out for the role of Yoda. Kermit’s bit is my favorite. (Direct link.)
2) For some reason, this next one makes me think of Seanan McGuire. From Paul at http://sariel.pl/ comes a working LEGO chainsaw. Okay, I don’t know whether this would actually hold up against zombie velociraptors, but it’s still extremely cool. (Direct link.) 3) Finally, Doctor Who LEGO, from infinitepi. (With a cute little Dalek and an autographed TARDIS, no less!) I totally need to try to build this one. Just need to figure out where/how they got the Police Box sign.
I used random.org, which selected mtlawson as the winner. He answered my rather silly question with the following: When the weremeerkat revolution comes, the werehyenas will be first against the wall! Congratulations! I’ve forwarded your contact information to Laura Anne so she can hook you up with your loot. # I’ll be at ConClave in Romulus, Michigan this weekend, along with GoH Seanan McGuire, local author Saladin Ahmed, and many more. My panel schedule looks like so: Friday, 6:30 - 8:00 — The Death of the American Author Friday, 8:00 - 9:30 — Self-promotion and Networking Saturday, 3:30 - 5:00 — Writing Groups Sunday, 10:00 - 11:30 — When Should a Series End? Sunday, 11:30 - 1:00 — Emma Peel Would Be Proud (Talking about strong female characters) All of my panels are in Ballroom 5. I don’t have a reading, and I don’t see an autographing spot, so feel free to stop me between panels or wherever if you’ve got something you’d like me to sign. Or just to say hi, ’cause that’s always nice too. # Finally, some of you might be familiar with a little series called Lord of the Rings. Well, OneLug has recreated the Last March of the Ents in LEGO, and it is sweet. Click the pic for the full set, and believe me, you want to click through to see some of the details.
I see some new people have started following the blog. Welcome! Feel free to say hi and introduce yourself. Or not if you prefer. It’s all good. # Tehani Wessely invited me to do a guest blog post on indie publishing over at the Fablecroft site. That post is now live. Click on over to see me go off on a tangent, trying to figure out exactly what indie means anymore… # I’ll be at the Kerrytown Book Fest on Sunday. I’m joining David Arnsdorf, Steven Piziks, David Erik Nelson, and Carrie Harris at 3:00 in the main tent for the “Science Fiction Voices” discussion, and I’ll be signing books immediately afterward. # Contest winners! My thanks to everyone who entered the book giveaway on my various sites. I threw all of the entries into the randominator and selected Leslie and viorica8957. Both of you should have received e-mails with details. Congratulations! # Finally, because I’m out of other things to blog about, have a LEGO Kraken vs. Jack Sparrow, by Lego.Skrytsson. Click here or on the pic for the full set, which depicts that final sequence from the movie.
Want! Click the pic for additional photos of Ewok in Disguise’s creation. And since they were kind enough to post instructions, I might actually see if I can scrounge/buy the parts to build this one!
Think that’s cool? Fine Clonier took it a step further, and built one that lights up. You know what this world needs? A LEGO dragon that breathes fire. Akama1_lego has taken care of that need. Full photoset is here, or you can click the pic for more. There’s also a YouTube video of the dragon in action, if you’re interested.
Yeah, that’s all I’ve got for today. Have a great weekend, all! Working on a deadline to get a submission package polished up and mailed off, so today I’m doing bullet-point blogging.
Finally, check out this LEGO Sandcrawler by marshal-banana. Built of more than 10,000 pieces, this thing weighs about 20 kilograms, and includes 22 different lights and nine motors. There’s a YouTube video if you want to see it in action.
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Thanks to everyone who entered the contest to win two Laura Anne Gilman hardcovers and a bonus stuffed meerkat!
