My current (and NOW CORRECT (errors fixed) and as far as I know final) schedule for the con:

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31 Flavors of Fantasy Devoured by Kids and Teens - Thursday 17:00 -17:45, 401C (CC) Fantasy has become a catch all category for all of the subgenres featuring "fantastic" elements from action adventure to urban and epic fantasy, romantic fantasy, and ( Read more... )

Well, then. Saturday proved to have an ending, after all - above and beyond where I left off on the previous entry ( Read more... )

I had a panel - I was supposed to be MODERATING a panel - at 10 AM on a Saturday morning. I wouldn't have been surprised if the audience was sparse. But instead we had a good panel, and lively audience participation, on the subject of descriptions in writing (quote of the panel: "things sometimes transcent bad, purple prose can transform into ultra ( Read more... )

So, then. Let us start at the beginning ( Read more... )

It's the first con that I've actually been to for a while (since before Real Life intervened and other things became important for the short term and there wasn't really a way to make a con fit into the schedule...) And it served, in so many ways, to remind me just why cons are so much of a needful thing ( Read more... )

1) Just saw a big many-tined antlered buck drinking off a small body of water as the train rumbled by. He lifted that magnificent head and looked up at us as we sped by - very pale-haired, almost (although not QUITE) the white stag of the fairy tales. I think he may be a messenger. I shall accept him as such. Let's see what the next little while ( Read more... )

And so here we are at the end of the con and everything is winding down and being over. Let's do a quick recap ( Read more... )

Some would say, enough said. Met up with lots of old friends, made some new, scintillating conversations were had, lots of coffee (and some wine) drunk, and it's only Friday night ( Read more... )

Here we are it's Sunday night and in a few hours I will be on my way back home again ( Read more... )

I deliberately left myself this extra day, because if I had taken the train down TODAY and got here at midnight and had to FUNCTION coherently at a con panel the next day, well, that wasn't going to happen. So I had a long leisurely day exploring the city. And practically the first thing Spokane did was make me cry ( Read more... )