So Octocon was great fun. I went into it tired (because i was an IDIOT and i got a new phone on THURSDAY and i couldn’t get it to update properly and i stayed up until TWO IN THE MORNING getting it working right, the day before a weekend-long convention started!) and had a panel Friday night so I had to be vaguely functional through that, and more ( Read more... )

We are home from a lovely weekend at Octocon, where we saw many friends and had good conversations.

I brought about eight pounds of fudge to the con, and passed it out to the attendees of the Golden Blasters film festival on Friday night. Probably the best two bits of that were saying to people, “If you’re allergic to anything except gluten you can ( Read more... )

I’m home from Dysprosium, which was a very pleasant weekend away. All my panels and things went well-the kaffesklatch was full!-and I spent most of the rest of the weekend at BarCon, without going to many panels, although I went to a few and had fun at them.

It was *great* to see Jim Butcher again, as it’d been since, like, 2008 or 2009 since we’d ( Read more... )

As mentioned previously, I’ll be at Dysprosium, AKA Eastercon 66, from Friday morning to Sunday evening.

My schedule is as such:

Friday, 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm: The Ultimate Urban Fantasy Panel
Something nasty in your neighbourhood? Everybody wants to go to the big cities, so why not the supernatural?
with Charles Stross, Mike Carey, CE Murphy, and Alice ( Read more... )

Dublin 2019! That was the other thing I wanted to mention in yesterday’s Loncon blog!

As you know, Bob, Dublin is putting in a bid to host WorldCon in 2019. I got involved with the bid about 18 months ago, and I’m really excited about the prospect.

So, apparently, is everyone else: by Saturday night at Loncon there were apparently about 250 pre- ( Read more... )

Somewhere along the line Ted and I developed enough opinions about P-Con that this year we ended up on the committee to help run it. In fact, apparently I ended up the Co-Chair on the committee, which I discovered on Saturday morning when Pádraig introduced me as such. :)

This year’s P-Con was the first run in association with the Irish Writers’ ( Read more... )

I think I am not fully back on Irish time. I mean, I know copy edits are boring, but I don't usually actually fall asleep doing them. I especially don't usually fall asleep for two hours. I'm seriously going "o.O *blinkblinkblink* mngngngh?" right now. Jaysus, as Seirid has learned to say. Of course, I did get up at a quarter to seven, which ( Read more... )

We are home, home, *actually* home. The heat has gone out but I don't care, we're home and it is Good. We got in several hours ago and have been talking with Mom and Dad, who've cleaned the house, emptied our bedroom of extra beds, put the new quilt Ted's mom made for us on our bed, slaughtered a third of the jungle in the back garden, fed our ( Read more... )

As irishkate said, "I've paid twenty-five quid to spend the day in the bar talking to friends." :) Which is, in fact, pretty much what we've done, but it's been well worth it. We've procured a copy of ABSOLUTE HUSH, but did not stand in the Jim Lee Line today. We will tomorrow. :)

Today we hung out with Kate (as you might guess), paulcornell2, slovobooks (when he finally ( Read more... )

I'm in a state of beatific exhaustion. Actually, I'm not even exhausted, but my eyes are killing me (I don't know why, maybe because there was deep-fried halibut and the deep-frying released something into the air that's making my eyes sting, but no matter why, ow). Anyway, I'm mostly typing with my eyes closed, so sorry for typos ( Read more... )