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Fans-of-color convention assistance project auction ends tonight

There's a project called Con or Bust that provides financial aid to "fans of color who want to attend SFF... (More...)

WFC good but odd

As noted previously, I skipped Friday at World Fantasy entirely. Saturday morning, woke up late and groggy. Stumbled around the... (More...)

Tired, maybe sick?

I've been wiped out all week. Last night, stayed at WFC too late; came home happy but with a worn-out... (More...)

Had a good WisCon, home now

I'd love to sit down and write a long entry about WisCon, seeing friends, making new friends, the panels I... (More...)

Best news of yesterday

I am very pleased that Mary Anne and Nnedi Okorafor are going to be next year's WisCon Guests of Honor.... (More...)

Arrival at WisCon

I've arrived at the Madison Concourse; thought about wandering around and saying hello to people and having dinner with folks... (More...)

WisCon imminent

WisCon starts in five days, this coming Friday, the 22nd! (More...)

Check your WisCon hotel reservations!

I just got off the phone from a very weird conversation with the Madison Concourse Hotel. The short version of... (More...)

Last day for WisCon programming signup!

Anyone going to WisCon can sign up to be on panels. But today is the last day to do so.... (More...)

Imminent Bay Area convention: Potlatch

Potlatch will be held in Sunnyvale this year, and it's coming up fast: it starts three weeks from now. For... (More...)

Convention Anti-Harassment Project

The folks over at Girl-Wonder.org have started a project to reduce harassment, especially sexual harassment, at conventions: the Con Anti-Harassment... (More...)

Tea/launch party at WorldCon, Saturday 12:30-4 p.m.

On the off chance that anyone here who doesn't already know will see this in the next eight or ten... (More...)

Things to do in Denver when you're Jed

Other than the coughing and sleeping problems, Thursday was fine. I got to the convention center around noon, got my... (More...)

GroggyCon

I'm still sick. But yesterday I discovered that if I lean forward, I mostly stop coughing; and various drugs have... (More...)

My first Readercon

People have been telling me for, oh, ten years or so about how great Readercon is, but I've never been... (More...)

WorldCon suite sublet?

Some of us have been talking about putting together an afternoon party at WorldCon, ideally on Friday or Saturday of... (More...)

Satellite image of Wiscon (Florida, that is)

I couldn't figure out why one of my online photo albums seemed to be tagged as having been taken in... (More...)

Some WisCon highs and lows

Some of the very best things about WisCon for me this year: Talking with the totally awesome Karen Healey (who... (More...)

Weekend paradigms/metaphors

On a mailing list recently, someone commented that in a corporate environment, there are two kinds of people: wolves and... (More...)

WisCon!

I'm ridiculously far behind on blogging--there are about six movies and six books that I want to write about, a... (More...)

Last day to submit WisCon programming ideas

Just remembered that the WisCon programming ideas list closes today. If you have any suggestions for programming, submit them! Somehow... (More...)

Westercon

Somehow I totally missed the fact that Westercon 60 is happening this coming weekend in San Mateo. (Thanks for pointing... (More...)

WisCon photos

I took about 150 photos at WisCon; earlier in the week, I put them up in an unlisted album, then... (More...)

Painless travel

Thanks once again to Heather W for the suggestion to travel to Madison via Minneapolis. Today's flight from MSN to... (More...)

Sarong

Not gonna write up Saturday or Sunday tonight; suffice it to say that I've mostly had a good time this... (More...)

WisCon Friday

I've only been at the con for, basically, one day, and already I'm exhausted but have had a multitude of... (More...)

WisCon and BitterCon online

For those at WisCon who want to see what everyone else is up to here without having to actually talk... (More...)

WisCon so far

Flights were uneventful and more or less on time. In Minneapolis, we had to switch to a slightly smaller plane... (More...)

Touch at WisCon

I'll be heading off to WisCon tomorrow; looking forward to it. I'm on only one panel this year, and it's... (More...)

Think GalactiCon: small new progressive Chicago con

The con is explicitly modeled after WisCon, though the focus appears to be leftist politics rather than feminism per se, and it has cool guests. (More...)

Week, movies, socializing, books, travel, etc

I never did get around to writing here about the tall ships. I would still like to, but the chances... (More...)

Items: Cons, awards, Year's Bests, praise, etc

A passel of sf-related news and tidbits (which seems to be all I post about these days--some day I'll have... (More...)

WisCon 2007 notes

Hotel rooms for WisCon 31 are going fast; already there are no Governor's Club rooms left. The hotel will sell... (More...)

Safe spaces in/at conventions

I'm working on an entry about some of the issues around bad behavior at science fiction conventions, especially the inappropriately... (More...)

WisCon hotel rooms going fast

Apparently the Governors' Club at the Madison Concourse is already nearly (or completely) sold out for the weekend of next... (More...)

More mini con report

Yesterday: Prep for Ellen K interview. Discover Diane Duane reading cancelled. Sadness! (But at least going to that room helped... (More...)

A few more WorldCon notes

Taking a break between the Escape Pod party and the SFWA party, figured I'd post a couple quick notes on... (More...)

WorldCon and gender

A first-half-day con report, plus some author-gender mini-notes. (More...)

WorldCon and LA

I seem to have neglected to mention that this year's WorldCon--which starts in a few hours--is in Anaheim, California this... (More...)

Photos

Some assorted photos, and some thoughts about public posting of photos: Thanks to my Uncle Dobe for providing a really... (More...)

WisCon 31 program planning

I've seen several comments in various people's blogs in the past few days that say things like "I think X... (More...)

"Pushing the Envelope" resource list

At WisCon, as I mentioned a few days ago, I was on a panel titled "Pushing the Envelope," about how... (More...)

Who needs to go home?

I spent most of yesterday playing the traditional post-WisCon game of trying to get home. I would love to have... (More...)

Pushing the envelope

I'm on a panel tomorrow early afternoon called "Pushing the Envelope," about how to get more cutting-edge/groundbreaking stuff about sexuality,... (More...)

Complexification

Not unexpectedly, I only made it to one panel yesterday, and only about 15 minutes of that. It was a... (More...)

Planes and automobiles

Got next to no sleep Wednesday night--I was up late packing, blogging, and rejecting stories (rejected over 70 stories Wednesday... (More...)

WisCon ho!

I'm getting on a plane to WisCon in about 7 hours. Somehow I'm not as excited about it as I... (More...)

WisCon about to sell out

By which I mean that WisCon is likely to reach their membership limit (1000 members) within the next two weeks,... (More...)

Assorted sf notes

Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH. (More...)

Convention programming participation

Tonight I dropped a note to the WorldCon people asking if I could be on their program, and I filled... (More...)

WisCon memories?

Those of you who've ever attended WisCon, consider stopping by the WisCon nostalgia page and submitting responses to some questions... (More...)

Life 'n' stuff

Somehow everything I've thought about posting lately seems simultaneously too trivial to be worth posting about and too big and... (More...)

World Fantasy?

I'm still waffling about whether to go to World Fantasy Con. A week ago, I was absolutely certain I wasn't... (More...)

More WorldCon planning

I'm always disorganized. Having a PDA has made me at least ten times as organized as I used to be,... (More...)

Plane flights to WorldCon

Most important thing here: if you're traveling to WorldCon from North America and you haven't yet bought tickets, best to... (More...)

What's this WorldCon thing like, anyway?

A couple weeks ago, two people in one day hinted that I should try to convince them to come to... (More...)