I'm BAaack
Baycon was a blast! I had light programming so I wasn't exhausted like usual. Internet connections weren't stable so I haven't posted since leaving at oh God thirty Friday morning.
The trip went too smoothly. I kept waiting for something to go hideously wrong. Both ends flowed uneventfully without any major delays.
After checking in and having lunch with ElizaBethGilligan We gabbed and gabbed and gabbed. Then we checked out the dealers room until her hubby came to collect her and I headed off to my reading. Themed reading for Science Fiction with Kevin Andrew Murphy. I read a bit from my short story "Price of Command" in the Flying Pen Press anthology _Space Grunts_. KAM read from his latest contribution to the _Wild Cards_ world. Then bar con and opening ceremonies.
Saturday I had breakfast alone, early, then met up with a contingent from Book View Cafe. madrobins, deborahjross Kit Kerr and Chaz Brenchly.(don't know if they have lj handles or not) There were others that made a full table. They ate, I fortified myself with more coffee. Then off to the BVC panel where we explained who and what we are, talked up the benefits of the site and fielded thoughtful questions. A success all around.
Lunch in the Green Room with more catching up with old friends. Then I retired with my netbook and committed about 450 words to The Silent Dragon while waiting for a college friend to arrive. We hadn't seen each other in 40 years (much groaning where did the time go?) We found we had much more in common now than we thought we did in our arrogant youth. A delightful afternoon. Dinner was a sandwich in the bar and then more bar con until filk. I tried to stay awake. I really and truly did, but after 45 minutes I couldn't keep my eyes open. So I headed back to the room. The elevator is worthy of its own SF short story. It bombarded me with a solution to how to present the next scene. 1100 words later I came up for not air and went to bed.
Sunday was another breakfast at the buffet, more visiting and an autographing at 11:30. I think it went well. there were more attendees than authors, I had a drawing for a copy of "Thistle Down" and sold some backstock of Wolf Songs Vol I anthology. (Volume II will be out soon.)
My son and grandsons arrived and whisked me off to buy a new laptop. In between stores we had lunch and ended up back at the first store for a low end Toshiba 15" that I'm working on now. I have no regrets in retiring the very tired and slow Gateway. After we set up the new computer and tried some things I couldn't make the netbook or the gateway do, we went to dinner with my d-i-l and her mother added to the party. Back to the hotel in time for more filk.
Did I mention how much fun my boys can be? I love being a grandmother.
Much to my delight Harmony Heifers sang "Hearts Path" by Chris Dickenson the song I featured in _Forest Moon Rising_ and they gave me a plug. The Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff gave me another plug with "Crossing the High Desert." The first time they performed this song, a few years back at another BayCon, I heard it, lost myself in the lyrics, went back to my room and wrote a scene for _Hounding the Moon_ the first of the Tess books.
Monday was mostly waiting. I read the opening of _Thistle Down_ and had another drawing for a copy when I get more. Then lunch in the Green Room with hugs and good byes. Chit chatting with friends in the bar and reading until check out and pick up by E Gilligan and her spouse. Another smooth flight and return home without a glitch.
That's the way I like to travel.
The trip went too smoothly. I kept waiting for something to go hideously wrong. Both ends flowed uneventfully without any major delays.
After checking in and having lunch with ElizaBethGilligan We gabbed and gabbed and gabbed. Then we checked out the dealers room until her hubby came to collect her and I headed off to my reading. Themed reading for Science Fiction with Kevin Andrew Murphy. I read a bit from my short story "Price of Command" in the Flying Pen Press anthology _Space Grunts_. KAM read from his latest contribution to the _Wild Cards_ world. Then bar con and opening ceremonies.
Saturday I had breakfast alone, early, then met up with a contingent from Book View Cafe. madrobins, deborahjross Kit Kerr and Chaz Brenchly.(don't know if they have lj handles or not) There were others that made a full table. They ate, I fortified myself with more coffee. Then off to the BVC panel where we explained who and what we are, talked up the benefits of the site and fielded thoughtful questions. A success all around.
Lunch in the Green Room with more catching up with old friends. Then I retired with my netbook and committed about 450 words to The Silent Dragon while waiting for a college friend to arrive. We hadn't seen each other in 40 years (much groaning where did the time go?) We found we had much more in common now than we thought we did in our arrogant youth. A delightful afternoon. Dinner was a sandwich in the bar and then more bar con until filk. I tried to stay awake. I really and truly did, but after 45 minutes I couldn't keep my eyes open. So I headed back to the room. The elevator is worthy of its own SF short story. It bombarded me with a solution to how to present the next scene. 1100 words later I came up for not air and went to bed.
Sunday was another breakfast at the buffet, more visiting and an autographing at 11:30. I think it went well. there were more attendees than authors, I had a drawing for a copy of "Thistle Down" and sold some backstock of Wolf Songs Vol I anthology. (Volume II will be out soon.)
My son and grandsons arrived and whisked me off to buy a new laptop. In between stores we had lunch and ended up back at the first store for a low end Toshiba 15" that I'm working on now. I have no regrets in retiring the very tired and slow Gateway. After we set up the new computer and tried some things I couldn't make the netbook or the gateway do, we went to dinner with my d-i-l and her mother added to the party. Back to the hotel in time for more filk.
Did I mention how much fun my boys can be? I love being a grandmother.
Much to my delight Harmony Heifers sang "Hearts Path" by Chris Dickenson the song I featured in _Forest Moon Rising_ and they gave me a plug. The Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff gave me another plug with "Crossing the High Desert." The first time they performed this song, a few years back at another BayCon, I heard it, lost myself in the lyrics, went back to my room and wrote a scene for _Hounding the Moon_ the first of the Tess books.
Monday was mostly waiting. I read the opening of _Thistle Down_ and had another drawing for a copy when I get more. Then lunch in the Green Room with hugs and good byes. Chit chatting with friends in the bar and reading until check out and pick up by E Gilligan and her spouse. Another smooth flight and return home without a glitch.
That's the way I like to travel.