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This year the Guests of Honor are Harry Turtledove and Sheila Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Science Fiction Association (<A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.org\">WSFA<\/A>) is activating WSFA Press to publish a limited edition book, <B>Reincarnations<\/B> by Harry Turtledove with Introduction and notes by Sheila Williams.  The book will be for sale at Capclave and pre-orders are being taken at the <A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wsfapressbooks.org\">WSFA Press website<\/B>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on the WSFA Press publications committee, vice chair of this year&#8217;s Capclave, and Editor of <A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/sfrevu.com\">SFRevu<\/a>, <A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gumshoereview.com\">Gumshoe Review<\/A>, and <A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.techrevu.com\">TechRevu<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine just how busy that all keeps me &#8212; and it&#8217;s also severely impacting my knitting time.  I&#8217;ve got Einstein mittens to finish fine tuning, two bears to finish, not to mention the sweaters (3 in various stages of knittitude), and socks (one project in just about every place I might light for an few minutes).<\/p>\n<p>I need a hug.  Guess I&#8217;ll go find Hyperion.  (Anyone get the reference?)C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like today I was busy from the time I got up until and including now &#8212; I had a huge TODO list and barely made a dent in it. (Guess it didn&#8217;t help having insomnia strike again and again.) 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