The rumor faerie says I should have my Boskone schedule by Monday. Its been a couple years since I was there, I can't wait.

Who's gonna be there?

Ravencon did not disappoint, they found a new and larger hotel with great rooms, a hotel restarant with solid food, decent prices and drinkable coffee and of course continued having excellent panels.

jamesenge survived his very first con without a bit of panic and with his low key, wry panache. I swung into one of his panels and enjoyed it greatly. Chuck ( Read more... )

I have made it through the first half of the con. Those of you following me on Twitter will note that a certain person who shall remain nameless has been a very bad influence and forced me to retweet something of theirs. I was afraid for my life.

I've run into Shira& Adam, Tempest, Trisha and Walter Hunt, and had a great deal of fun.

The Changing ( Read more... )

For those of you who have never had the joyous experience of being in a smoky room with contacts, I applaud your good sense. I on the other hand got to spend half of last night with my contacts going through a Navy Seal workout in my eyes ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a few cons of at least 500 people a year and outside the Northeast-Mid Atlantic to do in 2010. I'm probably only willing to do two real long distance ones since I'm told I have to be productive at least twice a year so two cons in anyone area are probably out. All i want is the aforementioned headcount, and of course a literary bent ( Read more... )

One of the more important early sites is:


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So, who's coming for sure, who hopes to make it and when are you arriving for Lunacon?

I'll be there early Friday.

You can see the list of who's who and their schedule here.

Well Con goers it is nearly that time again! Lunacon is almost here with a Guest of Honor who not only hasn't been in the USA in five years, is looking forward to his first stint as Guest of Honor. Dave Freer who has over a dozen books on the shelf ranging from epic fantasy to space opera to urban fantasy will be touching down in time to meet the ( Read more... )

Well, it's snowing outside, but the con is still in full swing. My two panels were well attended. The first one was with the fabulous Sara A. Harvey, Keith R. A. DeCandido, James D. Macdonald, and Inanna Arthen. Where we covered bad contracts, the unfortunate experiences of Sara and Inanna, James's work with Writers Beware and some of the practices ( Read more... )

It is your last chance to vote in the P&E polls.
Dave Freer & Eric Flint are ahead in the Best SF/F Novel and Dave is currently near the top of the best Author ranks. Go vote!

In the other categories, friends of mine that I'm told were nominated included Sarah Hoyt, James Enge (for a short), Toni Weiskopf, Eric Flint,  and a few others who's names ( Read more... )