What I Did on My Holidays
You know, I don't write in this thing nearly as much as I should. Reading back, I'm reminded that I actually like a lot of my writing, rather than cringing away from it. It also occurs that I should write about more than just SF&F Conventions, but since I'm about to just that again, such thoughts can join the ranks of other New Year's Day idiocies
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Other people pick which sessions to go to based on who is listing as presenting or being on the panel.
I do this - it's not so much about seeing the BNAs as that there are some people (some fans, some BNAs, some writers/editors/etc who are probably not all that BN) who are interesting enough that any panel they're on will be worthwhile regardless of topic.
Conversely - I've been burned/bored enough times that if a topic interests me but I don't recognize any of the panellists - I may still go but I'll sit near the back where I can leave unobtrusively if it sucks.
I may have also surprised the odd BNA by exhibiting a lack of said squeeing on meeting them
As a firm believer in the notion that BNAs are also people, I'm sure it was either refreshing and/or unnoticeable (unless of course you were deliberately rude and snubbing in your non-squeeing but that sounds unlikely). I squee (and worse, because I'm fairly shy when interacting with new people, so the whole "make real conversation" is difficult) but I limit my squeeing to politely appropriate spaces such as when getting an autograph or some such.
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