Wiscon Thoughts
Wiscon was not what I expected. Much like rosefox, I'd heard "Readercon, only bigger" and expected it to be that.
On the other hand, I did adapt enough to have a good time. Seeing people was wonderful, and probably the highlight of the trip. Met mroctober for longer than 15 minutes, and he had no idea who I was. Saw matociquala and truepenny at the Gathering, buymeaclue, nihilistic_kid around here and there, ellen_kushner and deliasherman flitting like busy butterflies to and fro, sdn after her second panel, wherein we had a brief chat about fanfic, and blackholly when she crawled out of bed recovering from whatever bug she had. Met grahamsleight and desayunoencama, as well as Maureen McHugh and her lovely spouse. Learned a lot.
Heard people diss the Kushiel trilogy on multiple levels, which was highly entertaining, as they expressed most of the problems I had with the book aside from the massive culture rape.
Cleaned up nicely for the parties, and had the joy of Doyle walking around in leather pants (which prompted grailquestion and yuki_onna to explain to justbeast that he needs to obtain a pair), and generally hung around parties. Parties were not what I expected - entirely too much standing around and chatting and not enough, well, partying. When we came down to say goodbye to people on Sunday night there was a dance party going on, and that was great - I wish we could have stayed.
Monday was entirely a day of travel. We planned our England trip from Midway airport and panicked about having two days to do it in. We've mostly accomplished the task now, though. All packed and stuff, and off to England at 10pm Eastern.
I do have panel notes, and I do want to write them up, but I'm not sure I'll have the time before we leave. In that case, they'll wait until I get back.
Did I mention that I read books? Well, I did. Fiction, even! I read Valiant on the plane to Chicago, Vintage and the ARC of So Fey at the con, finishing the former on the plane to Atlanta, then The Theif by Megan Whalen Turner on the plane back. queenofthorns reviewed the series some time ago, so when I saw the first two in paperback I snagged them up. Gen certainly hooked me, so I read The Queen of Attolia yesterday, and pre-ordered The King of Attolia paperback, which comes out June 12th. I've packed a bunch more to go, and hopefully I'll have time to write about them more after we return. I'm so happy to be reading fiction again!
Also, justbeast asked meaningful questions about Glamour, and prompted me to crack open the Honour draft. It's not as bad as I feared, which is almost always the case. I'm truly looking forward to beginning the revisions to the first book when I get back from England, now. Just a reminder, that if you want to help critique it, answer this poll.
On the other hand, I did adapt enough to have a good time. Seeing people was wonderful, and probably the highlight of the trip. Met mroctober for longer than 15 minutes, and he had no idea who I was. Saw matociquala and truepenny at the Gathering, buymeaclue, nihilistic_kid around here and there, ellen_kushner and deliasherman flitting like busy butterflies to and fro, sdn after her second panel, wherein we had a brief chat about fanfic, and blackholly when she crawled out of bed recovering from whatever bug she had. Met grahamsleight and desayunoencama, as well as Maureen McHugh and her lovely spouse. Learned a lot.
Heard people diss the Kushiel trilogy on multiple levels, which was highly entertaining, as they expressed most of the problems I had with the book aside from the massive culture rape.
Cleaned up nicely for the parties, and had the joy of Doyle walking around in leather pants (which prompted grailquestion and yuki_onna to explain to justbeast that he needs to obtain a pair), and generally hung around parties. Parties were not what I expected - entirely too much standing around and chatting and not enough, well, partying. When we came down to say goodbye to people on Sunday night there was a dance party going on, and that was great - I wish we could have stayed.
Monday was entirely a day of travel. We planned our England trip from Midway airport and panicked about having two days to do it in. We've mostly accomplished the task now, though. All packed and stuff, and off to England at 10pm Eastern.
I do have panel notes, and I do want to write them up, but I'm not sure I'll have the time before we leave. In that case, they'll wait until I get back.
Did I mention that I read books? Well, I did. Fiction, even! I read Valiant on the plane to Chicago, Vintage and the ARC of So Fey at the con, finishing the former on the plane to Atlanta, then The Theif by Megan Whalen Turner on the plane back. queenofthorns reviewed the series some time ago, so when I saw the first two in paperback I snagged them up. Gen certainly hooked me, so I read The Queen of Attolia yesterday, and pre-ordered The King of Attolia paperback, which comes out June 12th. I've packed a bunch more to go, and hopefully I'll have time to write about them more after we return. I'm so happy to be reading fiction again!
Also, justbeast asked meaningful questions about Glamour, and prompted me to crack open the Honour draft. It's not as bad as I feared, which is almost always the case. I'm truly looking forward to beginning the revisions to the first book when I get back from England, now. Just a reminder, that if you want to help critique it, answer this poll.