I’m about to jet off to Melbourne for the Manga Symposium at Monash University (see below), and I’ve got my speech all fixed up. Unfortunately, there’s been accomodation problems because it’s the same weekend as the 10-year anniversary of the Grand Prix in Melbourne, so I suppose the traffic will be chaotic. I expect to spend oodles of money on taxis, since the bus and train schedules have been thrown off whack. Hopefully I won’t be late for the symposium, because the only hotel I can get is a tad far from Monash University. My panel is the last panel on the first day, so at least I won’t make people wait if I don’t manage to get there on time.

 

The Dreaming: Yay, I’ve been “unfrozen”, and my schedule has seen… a 3-month expansion. That’s certainly good news – I’m now making art revisions for Chapters 1 & 2, and it’s coming along well. The extended timetable sure takes the pressure off, though I don’t intend to slack off. The release date is still early 2006, and finishiing it early isn’t going to push the release date closer, so I predict I’ll finish 2 months after the original deadline (including revisions).

During the freeze period, I did the chapter dividers for the rest of the book.