I'd booked myself on a Monday evening flight (instead of Sunday) to allow for maximum serendipity and World Fantasy Con goodness. Sunday evening, I was very glad I'd stayed on, it was such an awesome dinner. But by Monday morning, the Con was played out.

No problem, I thought: I'd get a late checkout to 3 p.m. and get some work done. Nope. The hotel ( Read more... )

Sunday, Oct 30, 2011.

Kater texted me that she was getting in line to get Neil Gaiman's autograph; and soon after that, that she was leaving since she had a long drive ahead of her. We hugged goodbye before she hit the road.

I attended yet another panel, Time Goggles: Modern Perspectives and Period Literature with Emma Bull moderating. By this time, ( Read more... )

Saturday, 29 Oct 2011

The morning started with a great breakfast meeting. (Yes, there are great breakfast meetings, even for me.) About 25-30 members of the online writing group Codex members assembled at the Trellises restaurant  for a low-key and laid-back breakfast.

Later, I went to a panel moderated by Guy Gavriel Kay, called If wishes were ( Read more... )

Friday, Oct 28, 2011

Yesterday's lesson was that I should get enough rest; I hated being so tired at the two after-dinner panels. Friday morning I resolutely slept in, ignoring the siren call on the Con, and Kater's message that she was headed for the Con Suite. After lunch, I had a choice of a panel on Retelling Fairy Tales with Pat Murphy ( Read more... )

Here I am at WFC. I got in just after lunch, and met Kater, who would be reading later. We did the Con suite, the freebie table, the book bags, and hung out. Shweta and Nathaniel came by with buddhistmippo in costume as Appa, but a combination of interior and exterior pollutants were already getting to be a problem.

As usual, there was the pleasant experience of ( Read more... )