I had planned to take a short break at 2pm but I ran into Barry Malzberg who was about to go on one of his walks around the parking lot and so I went with him. It is always great to chat with Barry when there are no crowds around. Even though I’ve taken these…
I usually don’t sleep well in hotels, but I slept pretty good last night. In part it was probably do to the fact that I was up so late to begin with. I allowed myself to sleep in until just before 8am, usuaully late for me. Then I got up, showered, and had a quick…
As anyone who attends science fiction conventions knows: conventions typically begin the moment you walk into the hotel lobby. A big part of a convention is meeting up with friends and colleagues, catching up, chatting, networking, making new acquaintances. And that was certainly true yesterday. But a convetion like Readercon “officially” begins with the first…
I know it is a small thing, but as a participant and panelist at Readercon this year, it means that I am listed in the program. Small though it is, I am terribly excited about that. Here I am in the participant index: And here is my bio in listing of participants: I know it’s…
During the writers hangout last night, Mary Robinette Kowal announced to the lot of us that her flight to Readercon today had been canceled and that she’d been booked on another flight. She doesn’t have the best of luck when it come to travel. I, on the other hand, have had unusually good luck with…
I woke up at 4am and discovered that my flight to Readercon had been canceled and I had been automatically rebooked on the next flight out of Dulles. I was originally supposed to depart at 12:30 and now my flight is scheduled to leave 2-1/2 hours later at 3pm. That gets me into Boston at…
Depending on who you ask, print books are dying, e-readers are far from perfect, traditional publishing is lost at sea, and self-publishing is looked upon as a gold rush by some, and fool’s gold by others. I have a different view point. I think we’ve entered a golden age of books. Of course, the key…
I leave for Readercon the day after tomorrow and I feel like I have a lot to do between now and then. The biggest challenge, however, is finishing the first draft of this novelette that I’ve been working on. I promised myself I’d have the draft done before I got on the plane. I did…