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 […]
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
Quick reminder that I’ll be moderating a panel with this brilliant woman at 2 CST / 3 EST today, link in comments to register. Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, David D. Levine, Walter Jon Williams. (Had to grab this pic because it’s fabulous seeing Ellen in person, and also, our outfits coordinated so nicely. )
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Was going to do a recap of the day, but too sleepy. Good day. This photo taken poolside, on an evening where I spent hours talking to old friends whom I haven’t seen in too long, and whom I am very fond of. Felt surrounded in genre community love, like a warm and very fuzzy
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So far, ICFA is going very well, though also very hectic, and I should remember that the conference really does start on Wednesday, and I should try to get in Wednesday if at all possible next time. Getting in midday Thursday, I’d missed a bunch of things I’d like to have attended. Ah well —
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I sewed this up just before leaving for ICFA, so didn’t get a chance to post it beforehand. One of the benefits of sewing my own swimsuit from my own fabric is that it’s super-easy to sew a matching cover-up. I printed a yard of Spoonflower chiffon, cut off the white selvedge edges, hemmed it.
