But Enough About Me!

I won't make a long list of names of people I hung out with, although they were utterly fabulous, or the people I met for the first time, although they were utterly fabulous (you see the trend here). This WFC had a very different and interesting vibe from other WFC's I've attended and I'm not quite sure what it was (besides the dry air that made many people get scratchy throats and which certainly sent me spiraling into some kind of allergic or cold reaction) except that people seemed very present, panels and readings seemed unusually well attended, and all in all it felt like people were paying attention to each other and connecting. Not that the latter doesn't always happen, but this felt focused in a different way to me, perhaps the presence of more serious newer (younger sometimes but not always) writers approaching writing with a clearly pragmatic attitude. I dunno. If I figure it out, I'll tell you.

The Scholes and I had a good event at the utterly fabulous San Diego bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, which I am too lazy to link to because I am really exhausted but which you can google if you are one of those who might like signed copies of books (they can ship them, and do). Tomorrow: Dark Delicacies in Burbank at 7 pm. This event will probably be just a signing, so we'll probably be there for about an hour or so, I would guess, or thereabouts. If you are in the area, please come by.

Ken and I decided on all our stops to read from each other's work rather than from our own, which worked out well: I get rather self conscious reading from my own work, but I enjoy reading someone else's work so, lacking self consciousness, read it better than I would my own, if that makes sense. I think Ken enjoyed reading from my novel as well, and at all three stops where we performed this feat, it seemed to go over well.

As for conversations at WFC: If I can remember anything, I'll let you know.

I do remember distinctly having a short but intense conversation with WFC-winner (for short story) Kij Johnson about being women of a certain age engaged in rather intense athletic regimens (she's a rock climber; as all of you ought to know by now, I paddle outrigger canoes). That's a whole topic of itself.