"briefly" on day 2 of Westercon

Second day of a four day convention yesterday, and I was already exhausted. Amongst other things missed the erotica writing panel because it was on at 10 pm and I was too tired to stay that long. But went to several panels during the day, including two about the editor's job where I took quite a few notes -- will write those up later in the week if I can still remember what they meant by the time I'm awake enough to write a con report.

Back to black -- wore my Redemption 2007 teeshirt yesterday, which is in your typical UK fannish colour theme of Black Goes With Everything. I had culture shock when I first went to a US con -- something felt *wrong* and it took me a while to realise that it was because US fans don't have the black teeshirt uniform. Also did my bit for advertising with some flyers on the flyer table. Probably won't be a lot of interest, but there may be one or two people who would be interested, so it's worth putting a few out.

As usual spent too much money in the art show, assuming that I win any bids. ritaxis thinks my stash of art under the bed in the spare room is hilarious. We ended up sitting and having a nice gossip with the art show staff for half an hour in the afternoon -- good place to chill out.

Someone came to me after one of the editing panels yesterday, and said, "You read at the Broad Universe reading, didn't you? I bought the book, and really liked it." Enjoyed that... Also gave her and someone else info on submitting to Loose Id, so it was worth taking a couple of the LI brochures in my flyer stash.

Got home to fanmail asking if the rest of The Syndicate will be out in print as well as ebook. Second time this week someone's asked. Don't think there are any current plans (and even if there are it should wait until after the honeymoon story is written, which could be a while), but it does give a warm fuzzy glow that people want it in print.

Broad Universe Rapidfire Reading at Westercon

We have a time slot for the Broad Universe Rapidfire Reading at Westercon. :-) Five Broads on the reading list so far, so probably ten minute excerpts. Now I have to go and find an excerpt that is clean, about ten minutes long and still makes sense, that hasn't been heard before...

Rapidfire Reading

 

Tuesday, July 3      

1 PM

Synergy Room 2

briefly -- third day of westercon

Third day was excellent, have taken lots of notes in good writing panels, have bought too many books, have bid too much on art show, latter two items may be regretted now am home and have seen autopope's comments  about Palm TX as replacement for current  PDA love of my life, Palm IIIxe, will probably want that money to spend on Palm instead, oh dear.

Brain switched off about five minutes ago and can no longer type cleanly, so will stop working through the day's email. Will reply to some of it later this week.

Should have stopped earlier and spent time deciding on excerpt to read tomorrow at BU Rapdfire Reading while I was still awake enough to think about it...