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After eleven years of SF conventions, RWA National was … different. Convention neepery follows; run away now if you don’t care about this sort of thing.

For starters, I’m more or less used to being in the minority at SF cons. (I haven’t been to WisCon. I will.) RWA National consists of two thousand women, give [...]

Home from RWA National. Later this week, if I can pull my thoughts together, I’ll write a bit about how I think RWA and SF cons could learn from one another. For now, I’m cataloguing all the free books I got (DEAR GOD, PEOPLE, ALL THE FREE BOOKS), unpacking, catching up on messages and blogs, [...]

OMG TIRED!!1111!!!1

Parties 3, Steph 0.

I have skulls (temporarily) tattooed on my hand.

Memo to publishers: please cease and desist the practice of dropping authors on their heads. You can’t dislodge the books that way, and no one wants to clean up the resulting mess.

On to AEA. May I possess the energy to stay [...]

It occurs to me that I haven’t yet told you all about the wonderful hotel experience Sarah and I had on our way to Rochester. (By the way, most of the presentations are up, along with lots of photos.)

See, our plane from Houston was leaving really early on Saturday morning, so we had decided to [...]

I’m in Rochester, NY for the HighEdWebDev conference…. which is now over! I’ve been so busy since I got here that I haven’t had time to post. (That, and the wireless has been pretty flaky.)

This year I was on the programming committee, so I was in charge (with my co-chair) of one entire track of [...]

Thursday evening I had a couple of hours to kill on my own before hooking up with the rest of the VP5 posse, so I raided the book dealers, thinking I’d drag my loot back to the hotel and not have to worry about it for the rest of the con. Alas, the con had [...]

I took the entire week off, even though I’m not flying out to L.A. until tomorrow, so I could take care of lots of little crap that’s been piling up.

Crap vanquished. Whee! Also cleaned off the DVR a bit; caught up on Life on Mars and about half the House episodes from last season we [...]

I’m putting together a public Google calendar for SF cons in Texas. If I’ve missed one, let me know and I’ll add it.

I’m at ConDFW. At the moment I’m in a somewhat lifeless panel, but it’s been a good, relaxing con so far — just what I needed. Work has been stressful, in case my continued absence here didn’t clue you in.

I’m in the habit of providing my friends with things I think they might like — [...]

ConDFW was a lot of fun but has left me a little worn out and, of course, way behind on a lot of things that needed doing. I avoided the illness that was steadily felling the guests, but now I’m surrounded by sick people at work. I expect I’ll become dreadfully sick just as several [...]

My sidelink gizmo is borked thanks to the WordPress upgrade, so here’s a handful:

Joss Whedon and John Cassaday are going to do another year of X-Men (whoop!) There’s a Martian sea Charlie Stross expounds on cold-bloodedly designing a fantasy series John Scalzi explains the difficulty in playing ‘I Never’ in fandom

It looks like Patrick and Teresa have a [...]

This was the first con I’ve been to by myself in a very long time. I spent most of it in panels, and they turned out to be more informative than local con panels generally are. In particular the one on writing a multi-book series (“as opposed to all those single-book series,” Aaron Allston deadpanned) [...]

... for all your Christmas shopping needs. People, they sell the red Swingline stapler. Wrap it with a copy of the movie and make your friends happy.

My GregJunk arrived today.

Hilarious view on cons and costuming from a relative newcomer:

All my life [...] I have been told by my superego that dressing like a Marvel superhero will not get me laid. And, here, here and now in this temporary saturnalia, surrounded by other males who are – at best – my equals in the ugly [...]