I’m heading to Readercon this month, which is one of my favorite conventions. Here’s my schedule. I’ll have the tiny puppet show and the Shades and Glamour game cards with me. Thursday July 14 8:00 PM F Mastering the Puppets. Erik Amundsen, Gwendolyn Clare, John Crowley, Mary Robinette Kowal (leader), Barry N. Malzberg.Catherynne M. Valente uses […]
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Today was much more low-key. I spent the morning in the lobby trying to get caught up on some writing and business. As usual, I intended to go to panels and instead wound up spending most of my time in the hall talking to people. The keen hall conversation moment was when Stephanie Kwandrans gave
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As always, Readercon is PACKED with people that I adore. I started out the day by hanging out with Paolo Bacigalupi and Ben Rosenbaum as I added the “dance cards” to the promo fans. We had a serious and fun conversation about shareable economies based on the fact that Paolo, Ben, and I all have
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I’m heading up on the train to Readercon today. If you are looking for me, I’ll be attending Barry Longyear’s talk at 8:00 tonight. Imagine or Die 8:00 PM, Salon G Talk / Discussion (90 min.) A writer without a working imagination is stymied. We’ll take about the care and feeding of imagination, how to unleash
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This year at Readercon looks like it will be loads of fun. In particular because for the first time, I get to participate in the Kirk Poland Memorial Prose Competition. I am SO looking forward to that. Also feel free to catch me if you want to ask SFWA questions at any point over the
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I’m home from Readercon, which was fantastic as always. I managed to get my daily wordcount in somehow and wrapped up Chapter 4 on the train. At the moment, I’m heading to bed and husband. Talk to you all tomorrow.
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The Steampunk Panel that I was on with Holly Black, Liz Gorinsky and Sarah Micklem is now available for your listening pleasure at the Steampunk Workshop.
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io9 covered our panel on steampunk design. One of the most interesting panels at this year’s Readercon was an exploration of the steampunk design movement, as it emerged into the mainstream with May’s New York Times Style article. Writer/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal, YA fantasy novelist Holly Black, Tor editor Liz Gorinsky, and speculative fiction writer
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I spent the train trip alternating between writing a new short story and reading Ekaterina Sedia’s Alchemy of Stone. I say “alternated” by which I mean that I took a break from writing the story, read half of Alchemy and then we were in NYC. The apartment is empty without Rob, again, but he left
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Saturday I went to fewer panels and spent more time hanging out with friends. The morning started with the Codex breakfast, which featured a completely different group of Codexians than we had at the retreat. It was good to see Elaine Isaak, Doug Cohen, Joy Marchand, ((Did not get enough time with Joy)) Cat Rambo,
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Well the kaffeeklatsch went well. I was with Scott Edelman, who was delightful. We had a nice group of people visiting with us. Whose names I remembered earlier, but my brain is a sieve now. The Tabula Rasa reading also went well. I only stumbled once, ironically not in one of the place where I
I’m heading out to catch the train. On today’s schedule: Friday 12:00 Noon Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch Friday 1:00 PM VT: Tabula Rasa Group Reading Friday 5:00 PM ME/ CT: Steampunk and Beyond: What Would a “Gibson Chair†Look Like? See you all shortly.
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We spent the last two hours or so catching up and hearing the stories of the film shoot. He’s taking a nap now and I’m going to finish the last of my packing. Heading up bright and early to Readercon tomorrow to be there for my kaffeeklatsch at noon.
I’m still up and, thinking about how often and easily I stay up this late, I’ve decided to take the 3:15 a.m. train to Readercon on Friday. I miss Rob (just in case you couldn’t tell from the schmaltzy posts this week) and would rather be tired during the con than miss seeing him by
I talked to Rob very briefly tonight. The area he’s in gets spotty cellphone coverage, at best, so I’ve had one text message from him, but otherwise it’s been radio silence. He found a place tonight where, if he didn’t turn his head, I could hear him. le sigh. I miss him. Which is absurd,