If you don't care about Readercon, you can safely ignore this post. If you're not sure if you care, Readercon is a small books-focused convention held in the Boston area that I used to attend and spent a year on the committee for. They are currently getting a lot of negative publicity because of a sexual harassment case that they chose to violate ( Read more... )

I've been distracted from Readercon updates by a number of things, not least by getting voted onto the Readercon ConCom. Wait, what? The first meeting was frustrating but fruitful, harrowing[1] but hopeful, and an impressive amount of energy considering the con just happened last weekend. People care, a lot, and that is good. Anything I say on LJ ( ( Read more... )

Here are the first two panels I attended on Friday. It's going to take me a few days to get through all of this, holy good lord is there a lot of information. (In case it's not clear here, most of this is transcribed from notes and cobbled together; if something has my original ideas in it, it's probably in parentheses ( Read more... )

I'll start with general notes and Thursday. I know it will take more than one entry. First, general thoughts, in bulleted list form:

• This was my fourth year at Readercon, and I finally felt like I knew most people, if not by name, by sight. It was a good feeling, and not a place I really expected to have it. Also, I took Friday off, and it was ( Read more... )