In addition to
On the Eugie-guest front, my short story marketing lecture for Ann Crispin went fabu. I got chuckles in the right places, and her students seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say, as well as glad to have me there to say it. I did, however, totally drop the ball (or hamster as the case may be) on the handout front. I normally email Ann the handout that accompanies my talk, but this time I’d emailed it to her after she’d already left for the con, and therefore she didn’t have it. When I discovered this, I promised her students that I’d print out and bring them copies of it after lunch. But then, after lunch, a few minor crises occurred, and I promptly forget.
Oops.
So, uh, if any of y’all were paying attention to that section on “networking" I was talking about, and actually come visit this LJ, drop me a comment and I’ll email you the handout. Also, Ann said she’d email it.
My panels went great, although I managed to be late to ALL of them. I think my favorite might have been the horror one on Friday, “Shriek! Finding the Horror in Horrible," that I had with Sherilyn Kenyon, Holly Black (
My “The Power of the Old Stories: Mythology and Folklore in YA" panel was also jam packed with luminaries. Josepha Sherman was there in addition to
My reading, which I stressed and fretted over, went absolutely great.
Other people sightings include Jetse DeVries, who came by Daily Dragon headquarters to say “hi" and drop off some Interzone and TTA Press swag, Keith DeCandido, who I got to help schedule a reading and signing for, and
On the see-panels front, I wanted to see the Firefly/Serenity folks, but the stars did not align. I also wanted to catch the Junior Mythbusters, and again, it was not fated to be—especially since they had major mechanical difficulties with their plane and arrived to the convention much later than their original ETA. But I did get to try out the Rocket Simulator . . . which I crashed. Whee.
And on the see-people front, I got to hang out with
Dragon*Con happened. I sleep now.