IT’S VERY LOUD IN HERE
I've been having an increasingly hard time with noise levels at sf conventions and restaurants and such lately. (Before I...
Archive for Conventions
WisCon: general
My WisCon was pretty good overall, but also stressful and tiring. The very difficult situation at work that I mentioned...
Stop it with the all-white panels on diversity
At WorldCon in Glasgow in 2005, there were two panels about cultural appropriation in writing. In my memory (which may...
My WisCon panels
Looks like I'll be on two panels at WisCon this year. Both of them are about aspects of gender that...
Nice moment
Twice during the course of WorldCon weekend, writers came up to me and thanked me for a personalized rejection I...
Sleep askew
Wednesday night, my first night here in Florida, I got somewhere around four and a half hours of sleep. That...
Spring!
I somehow managed to miss the equinox again. In 2011, I didn't post my traditional spring post because sad stuff...
Stepping down, one step at a time
On July 23, I sent my last SH rejection. On August 1, I read my last SH submission. On August...
MicroCon
In the car on the way from WisCon to Chicago on Monday, someone pulled out the WisCon pocket guide (which...
Scattered WisCon notes
WisCon ended only a few hours ago, but it's already something of a blur, so I'm gonna take a few...
Catchup
Wow, it’s apparently been two weeks since I posted here. FOGcon was good. It was great to get some time...
FOGcon in Bay Area this weekend!
I keep forgetting to post about the fact that FOGcon, a new-as-of-last-year Bay Area speculative fiction convention, is this weekend...