Well heh. Least popular Friday Fill-in-the-blank ever. And here I was half-expecting 20 people to say they wished they'd written the Harry Potter books, either for the fat whacks of loot involved, or just to have control over the characters.

Anyway. Dave McKean interview got bumped back a few hours due to calculation errors about the time difference between Chicago and England — their errors, not mine, but I don't mind because I've got people waiting on various files that need to be processed anyway, and this way, everyone should get their stuff an hour or so earlier. I'm feeling unusually low-key about this interview; it took no time to come up with more questions than I'm likely to have time for, what with Mirrormask being such an unusual movie and Dave having such an unusual career. Normally, I'd be bouncing off the walls with useless energy if one of my interviews got postponed, but I'm feeling pretty zen about the whole thing instead.

In addition to everything else going on right now, I'm trying to schedule an interview with George RR Martin, for a piece for SCI FI Magazine. Apparently he's currently out of the country and unreachable, he's been gone since July and won't be back until after Labor Day, and once he gets back, I'll have approximately a two-day window to find out whether he'll do the interview, then actually do the interview, then transcribe it and write the piece. This is kind of a departure for me because it would be a 1,200-word essay about Martin instead of a straight-up Q&A. I haven't written a long-form feature article since I don't even know when. I'm a little nervous over that. Not so much over the interview, though — I've interviewed him at some length before, and while he's slightly curt and a little hard to get below the surface with, he's also a fascinating guy.

By the time that's squared away, I'll have to be thinking seriously about scheduling an Octavia Butler interview, and looking into the Daniel Handler interview because he'll be back from his vacation (damn, August went by quickly), and then there's still The Project That Dare Not Speak Its Name, which is hanging over me like Damocles' very exciting but still frightening sword. I live in interesting times.

I'm-a feelin': busy and planny