SF writer's conference
So here I am at the SF writer's conference, trying to mingle and be social and meet people and get an agent (last one isn't gonna happen, but I can hope). So far, it's been a little disappointing. I'm wearing something low cut and some really high heels, so I'm getting lots of attention from male authors, but all of the agents and editors seem interested in talking to each other, and not to any of the writers, which kinda sucks. I was hoping to get a chance to talk to some of them just in a casual setting, but whenever I've gone to engage one, the body language is totally 'get the hell away from me'.
Lots of people are jealous as hell of my computer. I have a feeling that I'm going to be singlehandedly boosting HP's tablet sales by the end of the weekend. Every time I pull it out to take notes, it gets comments from everyone around me. Of course, 90% of those peopel have been men, and the shirt, did I mention it's really low cut? So it could be that.
The best talk I've been to so far was a woman doing a talk on nonverbal communication, the sort of stuff they do in the Fox series 'Lie To Me', which is awesome and you should watch if you haven't seen it. She opened the talk by having four people do drawings. Then the drawings were mixed up and the presenter picked one and went down the line, asking people if they'd done the drawing. Three people would be telling the truth, obviously, and one would be lying. The woman who did the drawing gave herself away before the presenter even asked her the question -- her attitude became really challenging. It seemed so obvious to me that I was stunned when I was one of the only people who raised their hand when asked if she was the one who'd done the picture. Afterward, the presenter was all 'she was very subtle about it', and I pointed out that no, she really hadn't been, but you had to be watching her the whole time, instead of just when she was telling the lie. IOW, I'd caught her -preparing- to lie.
The presenter was -really- impressed. (Also impressed that I knew about 'Lie to me', which she says is very accurate and based on the work of an actual scientist.)
So now I'm decompressing a bit, before getting ready to go to the "gala" they're having this evening. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be going overdressed for the thing, but I don't really mind that much. Better to be overdressed than underdressed, after all. And it's only going to be like for an hour or something. Bleh.
Sam's gonna get here this evening, and I'm looking forward to that. I never realized until today exactly how much he gives me a shot of strength and self-confidence. After a harrowing time standing around and making conversating and getting brushed off by agents who were all 'OMG A WRITER SO FILTHY', I wound up really wishing that he was there, and I realized it was becuase him being there would have given me a chance to buck up my self-possession a little bit, give me a little more juice to face everything. I called him after three, but talking on the phone isn't quite the same.
Lots of people are jealous as hell of my computer. I have a feeling that I'm going to be singlehandedly boosting HP's tablet sales by the end of the weekend. Every time I pull it out to take notes, it gets comments from everyone around me. Of course, 90% of those peopel have been men, and the shirt, did I mention it's really low cut? So it could be that.
The best talk I've been to so far was a woman doing a talk on nonverbal communication, the sort of stuff they do in the Fox series 'Lie To Me', which is awesome and you should watch if you haven't seen it. She opened the talk by having four people do drawings. Then the drawings were mixed up and the presenter picked one and went down the line, asking people if they'd done the drawing. Three people would be telling the truth, obviously, and one would be lying. The woman who did the drawing gave herself away before the presenter even asked her the question -- her attitude became really challenging. It seemed so obvious to me that I was stunned when I was one of the only people who raised their hand when asked if she was the one who'd done the picture. Afterward, the presenter was all 'she was very subtle about it', and I pointed out that no, she really hadn't been, but you had to be watching her the whole time, instead of just when she was telling the lie. IOW, I'd caught her -preparing- to lie.
The presenter was -really- impressed. (Also impressed that I knew about 'Lie to me', which she says is very accurate and based on the work of an actual scientist.)
So now I'm decompressing a bit, before getting ready to go to the "gala" they're having this evening. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be going overdressed for the thing, but I don't really mind that much. Better to be overdressed than underdressed, after all. And it's only going to be like for an hour or something. Bleh.
Sam's gonna get here this evening, and I'm looking forward to that. I never realized until today exactly how much he gives me a shot of strength and self-confidence. After a harrowing time standing around and making conversating and getting brushed off by agents who were all 'OMG A WRITER SO FILTHY', I wound up really wishing that he was there, and I realized it was becuase him being there would have given me a chance to buck up my self-possession a little bit, give me a little more juice to face everything. I called him after three, but talking on the phone isn't quite the same.