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Back from ReaderCon!
12 Jul 2010 08:40 pmIf I ever agree to road trip to Boston again, remind me of this post.
The con itself was pretty fun. I volunteered 8 hours, so I got a free membership for next year. I can save $50 out of ... 3-4 nights hotel plus airfare and all the other con expenses.
I went to a couple really good panels, which I may write more about once I've slept. I've been up for about 36 hours now, with several naps in the car.
I met some interesting people, like the editors of a couple magazines and was at a party Peter Straub showed up to at one point (though I didn't talk to him any.) I tasted several varieties of Scotch whiskey (which apparently doesn't all taste like bogs; I didn't know that), since one of my current goals in life is to learn to enjoy whiskey. (Christ; I just looked up my favorite of the lot, an unpeated Caol Ila, and it's $65/bottle. Of course I have expensive tastes. :P )
I bought Total Oblivion, more or less from Alan DeNiro, who also sold me a copy of "The Man with the Knives" by Ellen Kushner (which is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once and worth every penny of the $15 for a CHAPBOOK with gorgeous art by Tom Canty.) Alan signed my copy for me. I also picked up The White Road by Lynn Flewelling and talked with Phoebe Wray, a fellow Broad, about her books, which I need to order from Amazon.
I met some of the Broads, and I read about half of U8: Alexanderplatz (1989) at the group reading. PEOPLE LIKED IT. A LOT. (Apparently someone asked at the Broads table about "the book the woman in the Germany jersey was in." Sadly it isn't out yet.) It could be problematic that the rest of my work is, uh, completely unrelated. Though I have more stories about Cold War Berlin in there that I haven't found yet.
On a similar topic, Locus Online reviewed the whole anthology. I can't decide what she thinks of my story, but it's not negative. Tilton focused on whether the story fit the anthology thematically (historical spec fic), and said about mine, "Here is one very much of its moment." And since evoking the spirit of 1989 was my goal, I seem to have succeeded. *tiny squee*
Anyway. I'm going to finish this cookie and collapse. More later, when I can think again.
The con itself was pretty fun. I volunteered 8 hours, so I got a free membership for next year. I can save $50 out of ... 3-4 nights hotel plus airfare and all the other con expenses.
I went to a couple really good panels, which I may write more about once I've slept. I've been up for about 36 hours now, with several naps in the car.
I met some interesting people, like the editors of a couple magazines and was at a party Peter Straub showed up to at one point (though I didn't talk to him any.) I tasted several varieties of Scotch whiskey (which apparently doesn't all taste like bogs; I didn't know that), since one of my current goals in life is to learn to enjoy whiskey. (Christ; I just looked up my favorite of the lot, an unpeated Caol Ila, and it's $65/bottle. Of course I have expensive tastes. :P )
I bought Total Oblivion, more or less from Alan DeNiro, who also sold me a copy of "The Man with the Knives" by Ellen Kushner (which is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once and worth every penny of the $15 for a CHAPBOOK with gorgeous art by Tom Canty.) Alan signed my copy for me. I also picked up The White Road by Lynn Flewelling and talked with Phoebe Wray, a fellow Broad, about her books, which I need to order from Amazon.
I met some of the Broads, and I read about half of U8: Alexanderplatz (1989) at the group reading. PEOPLE LIKED IT. A LOT. (Apparently someone asked at the Broads table about "the book the woman in the Germany jersey was in." Sadly it isn't out yet.) It could be problematic that the rest of my work is, uh, completely unrelated. Though I have more stories about Cold War Berlin in there that I haven't found yet.
On a similar topic, Locus Online reviewed the whole anthology. I can't decide what she thinks of my story, but it's not negative. Tilton focused on whether the story fit the anthology thematically (historical spec fic), and said about mine, "Here is one very much of its moment." And since evoking the spirit of 1989 was my goal, I seem to have succeeded. *tiny squee*
Anyway. I'm going to finish this cookie and collapse. More later, when I can think again.
