I want to put down at least a few brief notes about things I had hoped to write about at length when my memory was fresh.

First, Minicon 50. As mle292 so clearly explained at Opening Ceremonies, Minicon 50 did not mark the fiftieth year of there being Minicons, and nor was it actually the fiftieth Minicon. However, we were celebrating anyway. The ( Read more... )

I had to go downtown today for the very mundane reason that I was almost out of Peridex and had to pick up another bottle from the dentist's office. I came home through the brown back yard, strewn with all the leaves last November's snow covered before I could mow them up; and glanced, by sheer habit, at the crumpled sodden leaves of one of last ( Read more... )

Somewhat belatedly, here's my Minicon programming schedule ( Read more... )

Simple but elegant, this year.  I am very excited about the interview.

For the reading, I haven't quite decided yet, but I'll probably read from a short story called "Strategy and Tactics Among the Mermaids."  It's not finished yet, so I continue my years-long habit of experimenting on Minicon audiences.

Here's the schedule:

SAT 4:00 PM ( Read more... )

FRI 8:30 PM Krushenko's ( Read more... )

I will be doing a reading at Minicon from 5:30 to 6:30 on Saturday evening, in Atrium 2.

I'm going to read some material that was cut from Going North, because I can ( Read more... )

I think the subject line is about all I really have to say about events in the world ( Read more... )

I'm very pleased to have this almost two weeks before the convention, especially in the case of the reading ( Read more... )