eimarra | Back from World Fantasy!

Hey, I'm back. I'll be posting notes I took at the various panels starting later today. If anyone who participated in a panel requests, I will take their comments down, but I hope my notes will be helpful and enrich the community.

Oh, so for the record -- my name's not Anna. It's Erin. When I first started LJ, I had just read some posts by an author who had serious issues with stalkers and was concerned about her family's safety. As I have the most adorable child in the world, that struck a nerve with me, and I wanted to remain somewhat anonymous. As for why Anna Bennett Strong -- well, I was working on a mainstream novel (which is on the back burner now, as I had real trouble with getting it to work as either urban fantasy or magical realism, but with ghosts being a main part of it, and it not being horror, I knew I had to go some such route. So I'm working on other things while I let that brew in the back of my mind.), and that seemed like a good pseudonym for mainstream.

As for current projects, I have a number of short stories in various stages, from idea to edit. The novel I was going to do for NaNoWriMo (a thriller) wasn't compelling me. So, following the "Ooh, shiny!" pattern, I'm beginning work on a comic fantasy -- based on what the Madison Concourse might look like as drawn by Phil Foglio, if magic creatures inhabited it.

Posts to come later today.