Ok, so. I'm going somewhere with this, stay with me. A big part of why I became a teen librarian* is because I figured I'm not someone who's ever going to change the world in a big way. I'm not likely to ever run for office or cure any diseases or solve world hunger or anything like that. I thought that I could probably change the world in smaller ( Read more... )

Ok SO. I went from not being ready to talk about the Readercon situation to basically bursting at the seams and not being ABLE to talk about it because of how much wasn't public info yet. Today our Public Statement went live, and I just want to say, BOOM ( Read more... )

So lynx and I have been saying for a while, "NO MORE BOOKS UNTIL WORLDCON." We're driving, after all, so we figure we can just buy ALL the books in Montreal and throw them in the trunk. But then Readercon happened, and, and, there were books! They had books! Which was expected, but they also had a lot of small presses with stuff we couldn't be ( Read more... )

Not that I haven't been home, since it was a local con and we didn't bother staying at the hotel, but Readercon is over and we have napped and eaten and things are much happier now that I've had some sleep. I'm not really up to a full re-cap right now, and that's ok, but there are some highlights ( Read more... )