I'm glad you had a good time. (I'm selfishly glad I didn't miss out on an issue of Science of Deduction.)
I guess the hotel doesn't remember us anymore. Isn't this the hotel where it *used* to be at, until it went feral? I have the dimmest of memories of having been there a couple of years before the switch.
(I'm selfishly glad I didn't miss out on an issue of Science of Deduction.)
Like we would have gone ahead without you? Please!
FWIW, Science of Deduction brought home the FanQ. It was a bit odd because we wound up competing against a classic Holmes zine (I think that was an accident), but, there was also a ton of really great feedback from folks asking for a second issue. It was fantastic to know so many people enjoyed it.
Isn't this the hotel where it *used* to be at, until it went feral?
Yes, though the hotel is now under new management. I didn't start attending until 2000, so I didn't experience it, but my understanding is during the 1991 con the owners double booked the event space and MWC wound up having to have events in the pool area, which is still there and very noisy.
Congratulations! (Golly, all those years of fanfic, I think that's the first time I've been associated with something that won a FanQ!)
during the 1991 con the owners double booked the event space
It wasn't an accident. The management had gone against the convention and wanted it OUT, to the point that they deliberately double-booked. The bride in the wedding that got some of our space was a Denny's waitress, and she actually came to apologize. The Denny's across the street apparently did a third of their annual business from us; they even came and talked to the hotel, but it did no good. I remember the representative from the hotel where we ended up going around the convention trying to sway the Carletons into getting the business.
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I guess the hotel doesn't remember us anymore. Isn't this the hotel where it *used* to be at, until it went feral? I have the dimmest of memories of having been there a couple of years before the switch.
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Like we would have gone ahead without you? Please!
FWIW, Science of Deduction brought home the FanQ. It was a bit odd because we wound up competing against a classic Holmes zine (I think that was an accident), but, there was also a ton of really great feedback from folks asking for a second issue. It was fantastic to know so many people enjoyed it.
Isn't this the hotel where it *used* to be at, until it went feral?
Yes, though the hotel is now under new management. I didn't start attending until 2000, so I didn't experience it, but my understanding is during the 1991 con the owners double booked the event space and MWC wound up having to have events in the pool area, which is still there and very noisy.
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Congratulations! (Golly, all those years of fanfic, I think that's the first time I've been associated with something that won a FanQ!)
during the 1991 con the owners double booked the event space
It wasn't an accident. The management had gone against the convention and wanted it OUT, to the point that they deliberately double-booked. The bride in the wedding that got some of our space was a Denny's waitress, and she actually came to apologize. The Denny's across the street apparently did a third of their annual business from us; they even came and talked to the hotel, but it did no good. I remember the representative from the hotel where we ended up going around the convention trying to sway the Carletons into getting the business.
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