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

13 March 2010, 12:59 PM | Comments (0)

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

5 November 2009, 11:15 PM | Comments (0)

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

30 October 2009, 5:56 PM | Comments (2)

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

28 May 2009, 7:39 AM | Comments (4)

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

25 May 2009, 9:16 AM | Comments (1)

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

21 May 2009, 9:54 PM | Comments (0)

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

17 May 2009, 10:46 PM | Comments (0)

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

25 April 2009, 10:23 AM | Comments (2)

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

13 March 2009, 10:47 AM | Comments (0)

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

6 February 2009, 12:35 AM | Comments (0)

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

23 August 2008, 1:30 AM | Comments (2)

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

9 August 2008, 2:31 AM | Comments (1)

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

9 August 2008, 2:18 AM | Comments (1)

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

6 August 2008, 3:49 PM | Comments (0)

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

24 July 2008, 1:52 AM | Comments (7)

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

1 July 2008, 10:56 AM | Comments (0)

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

31 May 2008, 6:21 PM | Comments (0)

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

27 May 2008, 11:54 PM | Comments (1)

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

24 May 2008, 3:31 AM | Comments (1)

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

22 May 2008, 7:20 PM | Comments (2)

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

31 January 2008, 11:06 AM | Comments (0)

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

26 June 2007, 12:15 AM | Comments (2)

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

3 June 2007, 2:39 AM | Comments (4)

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

28 May 2007, 8:55 PM | Comments (5)

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

28 May 2007, 3:16 AM | Comments (12)

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

26 May 2007, 2:16 AM | Comments (4)

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

25 May 2007, 1:09 PM | Comments (0)

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

25 May 2007, 2:06 AM | Comments (3)

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

23 May 2007, 11:46 AM | Comments (4)

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...)

7 April 2007, 10:01 PM | Comments (8)

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

7 April 2007, 4:27 PM | Comments (1)

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

25 January 2007, 10:12 AM | Comments (1)

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

20 December 2006, 11:35 PM | Comments (0)

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

4 September 2006, 3:01 PM | Comments (4)

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

28 August 2006, 10:57 PM | Comments (0)

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

27 August 2006, 10:03 AM | Comments (6)

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

25 August 2006, 10:38 PM | Comments (4)

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

25 August 2006, 2:00 AM | Comments (2)

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

23 August 2006, 1:37 AM | Comments (3)

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

17 June 2006, 1:49 PM | Comments (1)

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

4 June 2006, 10:39 AM | Comments (0)

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

3 June 2006, 11:34 AM | Comments (3)

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

30 May 2006, 8:13 AM | Comments (8)

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

27 May 2006, 9:19 AM | Comments (1)

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

27 May 2006, 8:39 AM | Comments (1)

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

26 May 2006, 8:00 AM | Comments (0)

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

25 May 2006, 3:05 AM | Comments (2)

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

11 March 2006, 4:34 PM | Comments (1)

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

16 February 2006, 12:51 AM | Comments (5)

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

16 February 2006, 12:29 AM | Comments (0)

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

21 January 2006, 9:13 PM | Comments (1)

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

25 October 2005, 10:23 PM | Comments (1)

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

18 October 2005, 1:24 AM | Comments (1)

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

29 June 2005, 10:39 AM

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

29 June 2005, 10:06 AM | Comments (2)

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

29 August 2002, 4:30 PM | Comments (0)