It’s been a long time since we plucked my magic twanger, I know.

No, I have not forgotten how to blog.  I just haven’t had the time, or the energy.  Too much else to do, too many projects, too many deadlines, and I was behind on everything.   Too much death as well; we lost some close friends during the last few months, along with artists, writers, and other celebrities whose work meant a lot to us, even if we did not know them personally.  I wanted to talk about all of that.

Oh, and politics… I have refrained from making any comment on the things going down in the real world this last year, but that does not mean I have nothing to say.

Had I found time back in the fall, I might have made some football posts too, as I have in past years, but given the seasons the Jets and the Giants had, it was just as well I didn’t.   I am not that masochistic.

I’ve been on the road a lot as well, more than I’ve been for the past several years; with A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS set to debut in January there was a lot of promotion to do.   There was worldcon in Seattle, Bubonicon in Albuquerque, the New York City Comicon, two weeks in the United Kingdom to speak at Oxford, visit my British publishers in London, check out Stratford-upon-Avon, and return to Belfast where Ira, Peter, Dexter, and the rest of their merry company were filming the second season of Dunk and Egg, based on my novella “The Sworn Sword.”   Most recently, I was in Berlin for the world premiere  HBO’s adaptation of “The Hedge Knight,” the first season of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS.

The last time I visited Germany was a quarter century ago… it came as a real shock when I realized that, it did not seem nearly so long.   The years do go by quickly.

I hoped to blog about all of this… but there was just so much, and every day it seemed there was more.   I prefer not to lug a computer along with me when I travel.  (I tried it, decades ago, and it never worked).   I do have a staff of loyal minions who take care of my Not A Blog for me when I cannot, and they filled in for me a bit, at the start at least.  The blog posts that went up on November 10, December 12, and December 15, which you’ll find below, were all Minion Posts.  The last one I posted myself was “Dunk & Egg Take the Big Apple,” which went up on October 7, after I got home from the NYC Comicon, before travel, deadlines, deaths, and the like left me overwhelmed.

I am back at home in Santa Fe at last, I am pleased to say, settling back in at my computer in the Land of Enhantment.  Trying to cover everything that’s happened since October in one gulp would require a blog post as long as one of my novels, I fear, so I am not going to do that.  I do want to catch up some, however, so I  instead I hope to do a series of short mini-posts here, to touch on matters both large and small… though not in the detail I might have had I not fallen so far behind.   We’ll see how that goes.   Watch this space.   (I expect the posts to be all over the place.   So much to cover).

It has been an exciting half year.  “Interesting times,” as the infamous proverb says.

But it’s good to be home.

Current Mood: stressed