The guests this week are  Jeff VanderMeer, Amy H. Sturgis, and of course the sofa is piloted by Captain Tony C. Smith.  Oh, and this guy writ­ing this post.  This week, we talk about the con­fer­ence in Austin, cover art, and I lose my shit entirely about the new “Hitchhiker’s Guide” book (those are scare quotes).  If you enjoy me rant­ing like a rabid dog, this is an episode for you.

I hope to write up a post about the amaz­ing time I had at the Austin Game Writers Summit when I have had a bet­ter chance to digest the expe­ri­ence.  I’m dip­ping down into that post-con  low today.  It’s hard to go from being super-social and hang­ing out with amaz­ing peo­ple to being back at your com­puter alone with nobody but your cats for com­pany (Sarah’s putting on a show, which I get to go see tomorrow).

I’ll be turn­ing around and fly­ing out to Vermont on Monday to meet the fine folks at Chelsea Green, a pub­lish­ing com­pany that spe­cial­izes in books on sus­tain­abil­ity and green liv­ing.  It’ll be a whirl­wind trip of meet­ings and dri­ving in a place where I have never been.   I’m less anx­ious about the job inter­view than I am about the dri­ving in Boston.

So what did I miss this week?  Anything cool hap­pen with you folks?

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