Saturday started with hotel restaurant breakfast with Catherine Schaff Stump and other Codexians who came and went. As usual with Codexians - good company, great conversation. Wiscon's a terrific place to catch up with people who you don't usually get to see, or who you've only met online. Except that very often, they're rushing in one direction, ( Read more... )

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This was an SF in SF evening I really didn't want to miss: Karen Joy Fowler would be reading from her new book of short stories, What I Didn't See. So I was a little worried about getting there at 6.30 when the doors opened at 6 p.m.

The place was nearly empty. I found it puzzling, knowing both authors to be strong draws for the sci-fi crowd. I ( Read more... )

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Ever since I went to Clarion, I've been meeting authors. It's a different world, on the other side of the Clarion Portal. (And I've even been lucky to be there in the nascent stages - I've now read and critiqued several first novels that went on to be published.) But this was different. This time, I met the author first, and then read her book.

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Wiscon's nearly at an end. I reluctantly tore myself away from the buzz of activity still going on on the 6th floor; the spirit is willing but the flesh is thinking longingly of bed. I'll try to make it to a panel tomorrow, and then it's the shuttle and the airport and farewell.

In the morning, I went to a panel about paranormal romance, which was ( Read more... )

It's the end of the day, and I'm procrastinating. I *should* be preparing for my reading tomorrow - the one I talked about earlier with Kater, Catherine and Caroline. Instead, I'm posting this.


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... at Cabinet des Fees!


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Sunday *was* better. Sunday was so much better. I was feeling fine, so immediately headed for the convention in a morning that could have popped right out of one of my stories. It felt too perfect to exist in real life, cool, sunny, with a little breeze that didn't even ruffle the very green grass.

I found redcrowkater and julieandrews and planned what to attend.

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Karen Joy Fowler's new book, Wit's End, came out at a time when I'm writing against a deadline. Of course I wasn't going to read it until my project is done. Of course, since Karen was visiting San Francisco, I had to get a copy so I could get her to inscribe it. And of course once it was sitting there on the table ( Read more... )