EasterCon64!

[mizkit]

We’re back from EasterCon, which was an excellent mix of meeting up with old friends and making new ones. My most excellent writer friends Kari Sperring and Juliet E. McKenna were instrumental in this year’s EasterCon, so I’m particularly happy that it was this year I finally got to *go*. All the other committee members I met were also wonderful

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[deborahblakehps]

Wow. And also, you're friends with Jim Butcher? Wow again :-)

I'm glad it was a big success and you had such a good time! Cons are either fab or a bomb, usually.

[mizkit]

Yah, I've known Jim for pushing two decades now, so. :)

[deborahblakehps]

And here I was, thinking I couldn't be any more in awe of you...

[mizkit]

*laughs* Well, thanks, I guess, but it was just happy circumstance. We met through text-based online role playing games in the early 90s, and as it happens a genuinely startling number of professional writers, including me and Jim, have come out of that particular group of RPers. He's a good guy. :)

[martianmooncrab]

loved the book buying diagram.

[irishkate]

so envious but so glad you had what sounds like a really good time

[kateelliott]

[bellinghman]

You were more confident than the committee then. On the other hand, they did everything they could think of to be ready for any eventuality, including the member having a heart attack in room 307 or thereabouts (Ted was the one who paid attention on the Friday morning), and as far as I can tell (having left about a day earlier than we wanted), they got it very right.

The report I heard was that the hospital cardio guys said "Oh good, we got this one very early". And the guy was back at the convention about 48 hours afterwards.

[coraline73]

Sounds fantastic!

Was the post-apocalyptic book with the Sikh family be the first one of Peter Dickinson's 'changes' trilogy, 'The Devil's Children'? I think it was first published in 1970.
(England reverts to a pre-industrial society in which machinery is hated and feared, with anyone who uses them being attacked, and seen as witches or devils. The Sikhs are not affected and the white child, who has been separated from her family, lives with them for a while. She acts as a 'canary' as she *is* affected by the changes, so they can avoid doing anything which will turn people against them. It's a while since I read it,but I think that they are able to judge, by her reactions, whether using things like bicycles or a water-powered mill would be alright.)

[mizkit]

Yes! I remember the author's first name was Peter, so yes, that must be it!

[bellinghman]

One of the things notable about The Sarah Jane Adventures was that it was trying to show Britain as modern kids growing up in the country will encounter it. So of its Scooby Gang, you have Sarah Jane (the adult, who was an original Doctor Who companion character, so white), her 'son' Luke (also white), his friend Clyde (black), and his other friend Rani (Indian, and her dad is a school headmaster). It's a good example of how some of the best exemplars are in the YA part of the genre.

It's a real shame Liz Sladen died, because without her as Sarah Jane, the series really couldn't continue.