With my husband still recovering from surgery, we did a very abbreviated Balticon this year, only one day. In fact, I went to exactly one panel, which was on self-publishing. The panel was pretty good as it talked about very specific things like tools to use for conversion and how much artists get paid for covers (very little to lots, depnding on ( Read more... )

This year the Nebulas were a local event (see last week's post) and so I ended up with "cons" on back-to-back weekends. I went to Balticon on Friday and stayed though half of Sunday. It's only about 60 miles from my house and should take less than an hour a half to get there in good traffic but Saturday was NOT a good traffic day, so I was glad we ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks so it's not really news, but I had a great time at Balticon this year. I went to some excellent panels, a great reading, and even lucked into a really nice room. There was one bad thing that happened; my husband fell on his face in the con suite, trying to navigate his way around the old Studebaker they keep at the back of ( Read more... )