This has been a surprisingly busy and eventful week, including out of town visitors, the brief loss of a a friend's child at Disney which created a bit of drama (kid has been safely found), the hopefully not brief finding of a new obsession, blackberry wine (why oh internet did you not tell me about this before), the exciting discovery that I had ( Read more... )

( Whoa. This got long. Amusing moments buried beneath the cut. )

So this is the part where a tactful, friendly person would say that the best part of the con was getting to meet and hang out with friends. But as I think we've well established by now, I am not a tactful, friendly person. So let me be honest: the marvelous conversations and meetups with friends and writers were only the second best part of the ( Read more... )

Hotel rant!

Edited to add: This was the Town and Country hotel, San Diego ( Read more... )

This is coming a bit late, since I really was not feeling too good yesterday (and not feeling great this morning either, which does not bode well for the upcoming flight home), but I have a hour or so to kill before leaving for the airport and finally an Internet connection allowing me to copy and paste my iPad notes up to here, so, here we go ( Read more... )

So in less than an hour I'll be taking off for World Fantasy. As always at these things, I may blog a lot, or not at all, depending upon internet availability (frequently tricky at hotels) and my fatigue levels (always tricky on trips.)

In the unlikely event that you are desperate for my words, you can amuse yourself with my most recent movie ( Read more... )

What with everything yesterday I completely missed that the latest Edith Nesbit post, about her novel Daphne in Fitzroy Street, a retelling of her relationship with George Bernard Shaw, is up at Tor.com. This is the last of the adult Nesbit books that I'll be reviewing, but I still have three more children's novels to go: The Magic City (which was ( Read more... )

Right! Appearances! Where I will be in 2011:

1) Driving arrangements permitting, I should be stopping by the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. I have absolutely no schedule for this, so if you are planning on being there, and want to meet up, let me know and I'll try to work something out.

2) MegaCon 2011, Orlando, on ( Read more... )

I don't think I can sum up World Fantasy Con in a single post, so, bullet points:

( Cut for length and brilliant wittiness. Well. Maybe not brilliant. Maybe not even witty. )

I am all sad.

I know I went to the launch party for Catherynne M. Valente's (yuki_onna's The Habitation of the Blessed.. (In fact I went there twice since the first time the books weren't there. and also because the party had this remarkable nonalcoholic punch which I need the recipe for.) I know I got a copy from justbeast and had it in my hot little hands. I ( Read more... )