Baby's First Con
Y'all, that was AWESOME. Everyone was incredibly friendly and kind. The panels were more about the writing than the reading, and the first panel I went to was briefly hijacked by a bitchfight about NASA vs. commercial space, but then I got to hear about how PC Cast's biologist father critiques her nonhuman sex scenes and there was the awesome, awesome fairies, demons, and zombies panel. Go, Team Zombie!
I clapped so hard at The Merlene Show (hillybilly Martha Stewart, presented by Yard Dog Press) that I bruised my thumb.
There was awesome MST3King at the play (Don't Mess with Iron Man) and someone brought a model Servo.
But the highlight? Author speed dating. You signed up and then you got a table with 2-3 other fans and 30 authors came by to chat with you for 3-5 minutes. This led directly into the new book reception, so you could follow up on particularly awesome conversations. I got to spend, like, two hours talking to Marie Brennan, Shanna Swendson, and Sarah Rees Brennan, aka mistful, aka the person I went there to see. Pretty much made my year. Also super awesome? Dean Lorey, PC Cast, Jen Barnes, Rachel Caine, Larry Dixon, and Julia Mandala.
I clapped so hard at The Merlene Show (hillybilly Martha Stewart, presented by Yard Dog Press) that I bruised my thumb.
There was awesome MST3King at the play (Don't Mess with Iron Man) and someone brought a model Servo.
But the highlight? Author speed dating. You signed up and then you got a table with 2-3 other fans and 30 authors came by to chat with you for 3-5 minutes. This led directly into the new book reception, so you could follow up on particularly awesome conversations. I got to spend, like, two hours talking to Marie Brennan, Shanna Swendson, and Sarah Rees Brennan, aka mistful, aka the person I went there to see. Pretty much made my year. Also super awesome? Dean Lorey, PC Cast, Jen Barnes, Rachel Caine, Larry Dixon, and Julia Mandala.