Prepping for teaching this morning, in between posting ChiCon photos. Goal — post all the photos and commentary before I go to CT to help out my parents; we’ll see. It helps that I only took one photo during the pre-party I threw on Wednesday! Was too busy chatting, cooking, and having fun! In retrospect, […]
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Registered for World Fantasy in New Orleans, pencilled in NASFIC in Winnipeg 2023, WorldCon in Chengdu, China in 2023, WorldCon in Glasgow in 2024. Onwards. My next con will be WindyCon here in Chicagoland (Nov 11-13 in Lombard) — more about that soon! https://www.windycon.org/ I’m glad that Emmanuel Henderson and Darius Vinesar were able to
Half-awake, but I’m at your autographing table, ready to sign your books! Larry Smith Books in the dealers room has one hardcover of Feast, one paperback of Feast, and two copies of The Stars Change left. Toastmaster Annalee Newitz gave a lovely shout-out to the book on stage.
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Congrats to N.K. Jemisin for Best Graphic Story, for Far Sector! I haven’t read it yet; a treat to look forward to!
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The cuteness is killing me — Alec Nevala-Lee brought his daughter up with him to present Best Related Work! “This is my best related work…”. (We all groaned in appreciation for the excellent dad joke.) Congrats to winner Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can’t Survive!
Big congrats to Neil Clarke (one of my editors, at Clarkesworld), for winning Best Editor, Short Form, competing against a tremendously talented field of editors. Very happy for you, Neil!
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Astounding Award to Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun, a book I very much enjoyed. Congrats!
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Hugo awards, and my first time presenting an award — here we go!
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Sorry, forgot to post ChiCon schedule yesterday. But it went pretty well! • Saturday, 9/3, 8:30 a.m. — BTQIA: The Less-Discussed Letters — Grand Hall K I did fine with bi representation, I think, though I stumbled a bit when trying to ask questions about trans / intersex / asexual stuff of my fellow panelists
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Quick TV / movie notes (avoiding spoilers, please avoid spoilers in comments): – Age of Adaline (Netflix) – romance with magical (pseudo-science) concept — there’s a woman who stops aging at 29. Well-written, I enjoyed it, although there’s a twist halfway through that threw me for a bit of a loop. No spoilers. Blake Lively
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