Last WisCon photos — Alex Gurevich wrote a finance book (that I gather is quite popular in the finance / trading community) about trading at the start of the pandemic. Alex is also a MASSIVE LotR geek. Late at night after the awards ceremony, we ended up in Alex’s room when Dan treated us to …
WisCon flashback — we held a little party for the SLF / Feast. I’ll be honest, this is where I really noticed the dropped numbers at Wiscon. My panels were actually all quite full, but I know the overall numbers at the con were quite low this year (perhaps half of what WisCon is at …
Fun reading at WisCon with Anthony Ha, Jackie Monkiewicz, and Benjamin Rosenbaum (sorry your eyes are closed in this pic, Ben!). An artist (Sally Brackett Robinson) came up afterwards and showed us a watercolor she’d done of the four of us reading, super neat! Yes, I sat cross-legged for my reading; it was a deep …
Friday and Saturday were so busy, I didn’t have time to post about Wiscon! But I’m in the Art Show doing a volunteer shift now, so I have a little time sitting at a table when I can type. I’m wearing my snowdrop tank top to advertise — the cute young barista who took my …
Farah Mendlesohn‘s Guest Scholar talk at ICFA was on “Science Fiction Community and the Rainbow Age”. I quite like the idea of living in the Rainbow Age. She covered a lot in a short time, but it was clear that Farah has so much more material that she didn’t have time to fit in the …
Writing day is progressing reasonably well except for one super-annoying thing, which I will get to in a moment. Woke up at 6, took an hour to relax into the day, watch a little West Wing (it’s my comfort TV). By 7 the sun was coming up, and I was working, catching up on ICFA …
I look a little stuffed in this photo, but people, it’s not easy to take a screenshot of five people WHILE hosting a panel, where everyone looks somewhat good. Next time, Darius Vinesar, can you take a nice screenshot, please? At least no one’s eyes are closed, which was not true in my other attempts… …
Little bird was taunting a local cat, very funny — I wish I’d managed to get a picture of the actual taunting, but you’ll have to take my word for it. But he was engaged enough in the taunting that I could get close enough for this picture — he had absolutely no interest in …
Lunch at ICFA yesterday with Cecilia Tan, who is always a joy to talk to, about life and love and the business of writing and publishing. The first editor to buy a short story of mine, a very long-term friend, whom I don’t see enough of. But we had two hours yesterday, walking to Neo …
Moments at ICFA: • BIG bird flying overhead • signing a stack of Wild Cards books at the autographing • dragging a friend over to take a picture with me because just look at our dresses, how perfect is that??! • figuring out that Door Dash works well for giving an alternative to hotel restaurant …
