I did arrive safely at World Fantasy three hours after I’d planned to get here. Â The storm system that delayed our arrival in Minneapolis was an inland hurricane. Â The bizarre side benefit of this is that it meant that my connecting flight was also delayed so I was merely late and didn’t have to get […]
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I’m on my way to World Fantasy with my customary delayed flight. According to the flight attendant the weather is “a complete mess” in Minneapolis and it’s the “worst storm since 1974.” Â They only have one runway open, so this is causing a two-hour delay in departing Portland. Meanwhile, I thought I’d give you my
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I’m filling out my World Fantasy ballot and having the usual struggle to remember what was published this year. Â So I thought I’d list my fantasy works published in 2009. Â If you’d like me to send you any of the short stories for consideration, please let me know. And since I’m also trying to fill
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World Fantasy is one of my favorite conventions because of the high density of people that I know and like. Yes, there’s business, but mostly it’s wonderful to sit around and talk shop, or not, with people who get it. This one was a little different for me because SFWA had a presence here, so
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I’m heading to the train station, where I will catch the train to San Jose for World Fantasy. I’m looking forward to the ride and having the quiet down time to just focus on writing and reading. I’m taking Tobias Buckell’s Ragamuffin for the trip.
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The flight out of Calgary was delayed due to weather in San Fransisco. So we landed after my flight to Newark was supposed to have left. Fortunately, that flight was also delayed and it looks like I’ll get on. I should be back in NYC at 7:30 tomorrow morning.
So I got to the airport three hours before I thought my flight departed. You see where this is going, don’t you? At some point, my 5:30 flight was moved to 1:55. They usually send a notice, so I can only assume that it got caught in my spam filter. But, since I didn’t check
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I’m sorry I didn’t write much while I was here. I spent most of my time talking with people in the bar or meeting for meals. I made it to Paul Cornell’s reading today, which was very worthwhile. Otherwise, I’m embarrassed to say, I didn’t see much in the way of programming. The panel topics
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15:25 My reading has been moved to the Doll Room. Irony. # 18:59 Trying to get some writing in before heading downstairs to be social. # 21:23 Starting the timer for a fifteen minute writing burst. # 21:45 433 words.Yes, I’m doing NaNo. A fragment. “The cinema had a magicker who walked the aisle swinging
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I think Stealth Halloween went over pretty well. Of the costumes that I know about there were: a cylon, a werewolf (but it wasn’t a full moon), Monk (from the show), the mall goers from Night of the Living Dead (before the zombies attack), a muggle, a clone, Sarah Palin and John McCain. I believe
I’m leaving the apartment at 5 am to catch a train to Penn Station to catch another train to Newark to fly to Calgary for World Con. My bag is packed. Besides the usual clothes, I have my costume for Stealth Halloween plus treats for stealthy trick or treaters. What sort of treats? Candy and
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Hypothetically, let’s say you were going to an convention over Halloween that had a no costume policy. Let’s further say that you respect the desire to have a professional convention, but still… Halloween. One might opt for what I call Stealth Halloween. What is this, you might ask? It consists of two components. Stealth Costumes:
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A friend of mine has to give up their hotel room for World Fantasy. If you or anyone you know needs a room in the con hotel, drop me a line today or tomorrow.
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I had a seriously great time. Hung out with many fabulous people but didn’t get to spend enough time with any of them. Got back to the city and went straight to the theater to pick up the dead dog and the intestines. My god… I have such a strange job. Anyway, I’ll try to
Back from World Fantasy Read More »
I have had great fun at the convention so far. I’ve split off from the crowd occasionally to do phone calls trying to deal with some complications in the show. Tell you about it all later. Right now, I’m going to try to get an actual full night of sleep. It’s only 1:30 am. That’s
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