So this is the part where a tactful, friendly person would say that the best part of the con was getting to meet and hang out with friends. But as I think we've well established by now, I am not a tactful, friendly person. So let me be honest: the marvelous conversations and meetups with friends and writers were only the second best part of the ( Read more... )

Thanks to the small fact that the email alerting to this ended up in my spam filter, rather than my regular email, a filter I rarely bother to check often, I failed to inform you all that for the low, low price of several thousand dollars Sotheby's was auctioning off various original watercolor and other paintings from classic children's ( Read more... )