a quick WFC recap

[mizkit]

I wanted to do a quick WFC recap before it gets so far away as to be irrelevant, so here I go. :)

First off, this was the first con I’d been to since about 2006 that I didn’t have professional obligations at. In fact, that’s almost a blanket statement: the first two conventions I went to were the only ones I’ve *not* been at in some professional

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[deborahblakehps]

It all sounds lovely and a little fraught...sort of like most of the conventions I've been to :-)

I have found that usually the best part is getting to meet and/or spend time with lots of writerly folk you would never get to see otherwise.

[suricattus]

By the time we got to the Q&A period of the panel, so many people were bouncing up and down wanting to talk about new authors (and some not-so-new authors) that I was afraid I'd get lynched if I didn't call on as many of them as possible...

Good to see you too, even if only briefly again and again....

[mizkit]

There were so many good suggestions of writers, too! :)

It was most excellent to see you again. *beams* Next year at Worldcon?

[blythe025]

That sound like a lovely time! Has me wishing I went to more cons (by which I mean I currently go to none).

[jasondrake]

"The Dark is Rising" sequence was, along with Mercedes Lackey's "Arrows of the Queen" trilogy, some of the most amazing fiction I read growing up. Those stories are how I knew I was into fantasy. I thought 'These are for me' or 'these are about someone like me' more than once. So I kept going back to that part of the library looking for more.

[mizkit]

Seminal books for many of us!

[desperance]

The only down side to the interview was that the interviewer seemed to be having difficulty remembering who was the person being interviewed. In fact, the woman I was with later said to me that about halfway through she’d begun to wonder if the program did not have it listed as A Susan Cooper Interview but rather A Conversation With Susan Cooper And… which it was not. So that was fairly disappointing, particularly when the interviewer actually answered the final two audience questions without giving Cooper the opportunity to respond at all. I was not charmed or delighted by that in the least.

Apparently someone in the audience was heard mansplaining this as "Ah, well, you see, Neil likes to talk and Susan likes to listen, so..."

Uh. yeah.

However: it was totally lovely to spend a bit of time with you, too. At last. And yes, m'wife does take wonderful good care of me.

[mizkit]

I heard it reported that someone else had written it off as "She was a difficult interview, giving short answers, so he had to fill up a lot of the time," which also, uh.