NorWesCon Memories
I've been home a few days (worked and slept, mostly.) Today is a day off and it's gray cloud cold and rainy. Seattle followed me home! Well, not Sunday's Seattle, which was crystal clear and almost warm. I saw snow capped cloud wreathed Rainier in one direction and lace-capped sharp Olympias in the other. And stood outside without my peacoat. But that was Sunday.
Saturday night I hung out with Marta Murvosh and had dinner with the Writers Cramp group in the bar. Mmmm, spice-rubbed steak! Yum, cuba libre! Oh. Yeah. Writers. Anyway, they left precipitously to catch their friend's reading.
"No one knows him but he's been in Asimov's and Fantasy & Science Fiction," Marta told me. "I had to convince him to come here." Who is this friend? "Tim McDaniel," Marta said.
No dimes dropped. AFAIWC, another writer, probably someone who wrote great prose that no one read, certainly I'd never heard of him.
I stayed behind to collect change from the tabs paid. Ho hum, no hurry. I got the money arranged then strolled to his reading, 20 mins after the hour, 5 mins to go.
The guy up front says, "I'll finish up by reading my flash that was in Fantasy & Science Fiction a couple years ago, "Why the Aliens Did What They Did To that Suburb of Madison, Wisconsin"."
I'd settled into a seat in the back row. His words stunned me. "You mean you're that guy? You wrote that?" I blurted.
Cuz, you know, it's memorable. I've taken delight in sharing it with friends and family over the last couple of years.
http://www.bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-june-2006/
Tim was quite delighted that I interrupted him. Afterwards, he said it was one of those things a writer dreams for: an unknown person who has read and enjoyed his work. And ya know, he's right.
Saturday night I hung out with Marta Murvosh and had dinner with the Writers Cramp group in the bar. Mmmm, spice-rubbed steak! Yum, cuba libre! Oh. Yeah. Writers. Anyway, they left precipitously to catch their friend's reading.
"No one knows him but he's been in Asimov's and Fantasy & Science Fiction," Marta told me. "I had to convince him to come here." Who is this friend? "Tim McDaniel," Marta said.
No dimes dropped. AFAIWC, another writer, probably someone who wrote great prose that no one read, certainly I'd never heard of him.
I stayed behind to collect change from the tabs paid. Ho hum, no hurry. I got the money arranged then strolled to his reading, 20 mins after the hour, 5 mins to go.
The guy up front says, "I'll finish up by reading my flash that was in Fantasy & Science Fiction a couple years ago, "Why the Aliens Did What They Did To that Suburb of Madison, Wisconsin"."
I'd settled into a seat in the back row. His words stunned me. "You mean you're that guy? You wrote that?" I blurted.
Cuz, you know, it's memorable. I've taken delight in sharing it with friends and family over the last couple of years.
http://www.bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-june-2006/
Tim was quite delighted that I interrupted him. Afterwards, he said it was one of those things a writer dreams for: an unknown person who has read and enjoyed his work. And ya know, he's right.