Updates

To save time and avoid confusion, updates will no longer always be listed here as this is mostly a static mirror. To keep up with the updates please visit the main Skygarden and Updates pages. Thanks!

9/01/02

Lots of information as well as links to the recent con report, website, and fanfic part here. Please check it out. See you September 28th!

8/30/02

Hey! Sorry for the delay, etc. etc., but I finished Part 11 of Blue Planet, White Moon and I think it's finally worth the wait. I have much to say and no time to say it (no--I am never not in a rush), so I'll be back Sunday. Until then, enjoy the fic part. Oh, and for those who missed it, my Otakon report is here. Take care!

Post-Otakon

The following update is copied from liannesentar.com (please go there rather than here--it's much better!). Thank you.

Sweet God ... I had the absolute time of my life at Otakon. For those of you who came to see me, thank you! Everyone I met was wicked; I went to dinner with famous people, hung out with the incredibly cool Otakon staff (you guys are amazing!), and attacked cosplayers so I could take their frightened, pleading-for-mercy pictures. My first convention experience was not only a total blast, it was laced with the awesomeness (not a word) that is being a guest. I was treated so well I ... I, well, couldn't believe it, to tell you the truth. I've never been courted so finely in my entire life. Fans, guests, and staff, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

There is much to be done now, oh yes. I'm currently working on pre- and post-Otakon e-mails, a convention report to explain in detail just how cool everything was, and synching the Tripod version of this site so it'll be as finely-tuned as this one (it's still suffering from the older layout). Please keep in mind that the Tripod site is a small mirror, and should only be visited when you have specific business there (the only type of which I can imagine being to sign the guestbook or check the hit count). Tripod's hourly bandwidth restraints are an issue now that my site's more heavily-visited, and people going there rather than here can lock that site up for hours at a time. Please bookmark this .com address and come here rather than there. The tripod site is still the top match on Google when "Lianne Sentar" is typed in the search, so I'd like its bandwidth to be reserved for first-time visitors; the rest of you can come here so you'll be free of pop-ups and have an earlier URL to remember. ^_^

I'm afraid Sleep is for the Weak (PG-13), my day job, getting ready for school in the fall, and my new Tokyopop job (I'll announce the new project I'm working with them on when I'm able) have been keeping me busy enough to make working on this site and a full-night's sleep strange, surreal fantasy objects just beyond my fingers. Well, my work and my new gorgeous Escaflowne TV DVD boxset and Ultimate Edition Movie DVD, both of which I can't stop running my hands all over. My next update will be in two weeks, and will feature the con report, fixed Tripod site, and fixed fanfic links at this address (you've probably noticed my fics are still hosted at Tripod; I must get them hosted here or they could freeze up with my other bandwidth issues at Tripod). I'm also going to be doing mad e-mail work until then. Which reminds me--would the sweet fan who asked if she (I think it was a she) could give me a copy of her manuscript at Otakon and whom I never replied to please e-mail me? I actually lost your e-mail and therefore couldn't write back, and then didn't see you at the convention, but I wanted to talk to you so give me a buzz. And on that note, if the young man at Otakon who stopped by the Tokyopop booth dressed like Sanji from One Piece with the pink apron and the wicked yellow shades is reading this, oh my God e-mail me.

When I can have the next part of Blue Planet, White Moon up (hopefully before August ends) will also be announced on next update, Wednesday, August 21st, 2002. See you then, and take care!

7/21/02

Hi! Sorry for the lateness; I slept in, then there was a bit of an emergency to deal with. Ah, the stresses of the week before convention. ^_^ Anyway, I have my final appearance times! At Otakon this week, I will officially be at the following:

-Otakafe, at 3pm on Friday, at the A Sailor Moon Romance (surf with caution) Discussion Board/Sailor Moon fanfiction readers and writers get-together. To learn more about A Sailor Moon Romance, go here. Also, check out the Discussion Board on their site if you're interested in joining in.

-Panel 3, from 5-6 pm on Friday, on the "Getting Published" panel

-Tokyopop Booth #911, from 12-1pm Saturday, Booksigning #1

-Tokyopop Booth #911, from 11am-12pm Sunday, Booksigning #2

Other than that, when I'm not checking out the convention or have other places to be, I'll try to be at the Tokyopop booth. In other words, if you can't make any of these times, you can always try the Tokyopop booth. ^_^ Also, I believe Tokyopop will be selling copies of the Sailor Moon novels and Children of the Sky during the booksignings, so you can always pick up copies when you're there and have me sign them.

Also, I'm happy to announce that Amethist will be working the Tokyopop booth for much of the convention. Feel free to stop by the booth and meet her as well! She and I will be acting out The Wacky Adventures of Psycho Setsuna from 5-6, so come watch! (Kidding. ^_^)

I will be back for either one final update prior to the convention (probably very late Wednesday or very early Thursday), or, if I run out of time, I'll update right when I come back. Launches of www.liannesentar.com and www.sleepisfortheweak.org (surf with caution) should still be late Wednesday or early Thursday as scheduled.

Yes, still doing e-mails. ;_; I'll at least get through all the Otakon ones before I go, don't worry. New fanfic part will be up sometime in August, I'll have more details later. Hope to see you all at Otakon!

7/17/02