World Fantasy 2010
Nov. 2nd, 2010 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fireun Also known as that time I visited a lot of brew pubs, met a lot of authors, and took a lot of pictures.
Cliffs Notes version-
Got in Thursday after 9 hilarious hours in the car with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pbray , jpsorrow , and Avery Shade. We checked into the hotel and instantly headed to brew pub #1. Good food, good booze, and then we took over scbutler 's hotel room so that pbray and jpsorrow could watch Project Runway. I was in it for the 5 week old baby. I...have that cooing disorder whenever around wee ones.
This is where things get blurry. I know I attended Patricia McKillip's reading. And jpsorrow's reading (where we mostly behaved) andyuki_onna 's reading. Time was spent spending in the dealer's room. Art room was perused. But the rest of the weekend was a crazy blur of networking, socializing, and brew pubs. I met more people than I can manage to write down. I have faces to put with online handles. I finally got to meet the wonderful woman behind Living With Ghosts, la_marquise_de_ , and Ian Tregillis, the man behind Bitter Seeds. There was much splendid conversation. I cuddled my copy of The Habitation of the Blessed after yuki_onna signed it....And then there was the whirlwind of meeting folks that was the mass signing on Friday night where pbray took me around to meet people I was too shy to walk up to myself. unforth ended the evening my deciding I needed to man up and just go have Guy Gavriel Kay sign something.
Craziness in bars. Craziness in pubs. Room parties. Homemade cheese. Agents. Ice cream withunforth . Not much sleeping at all.
The drive in will forever live in infamy.pbray and jpsorrow are not allowed in the front seats together anymore.
In the hotel! wearing the hat I stole from Avery Shade immediately upon seeing it.
Brew pub!
beforejpsorrow 's reading. we are definitely role models. scbutler , pbray Avery Shade, jpsorrow
jpsorrow doing the author reading thing.
...and wearing Avery's hat at brew pub #2
and my stolen hat
jpsorrow is a polite zombie. unforth is not so sure about this.
matociquala throwing a friendly punch at Scott Lynch
Elaine Isaak and Marie Brennan
eeknight and myself
first one is a better picture, but second one is...less blurry.
yuki_onna has great love for Habitation of the Blessed. You would as well if you had a copy. You should get a copy.
pbray has two panel modes. Official Writer and Zombie.
Last trip to the brew pub. Finally caught a good pic of Ian Tregillis. I made up for it by getting him delicious ice cream.
To sum up- holy hell that was a good time. I will be going next year. I don't get to see my author friends as often as when I was running a bookstore, and I miss them dearly. And how else will I manage to sit down to lunch with the new friends I made?
Cliffs Notes version-
Got in Thursday after 9 hilarious hours in the car with
pbray , jpsorrow , and Avery Shade. We checked into the hotel and instantly headed to brew pub #1. Good food, good booze, and then we took over scbutler 's hotel room so that pbray and jpsorrow could watch Project Runway. I was in it for the 5 week old baby. I...have that cooing disorder whenever around wee ones.This is where things get blurry. I know I attended Patricia McKillip's reading. And jpsorrow's reading (where we mostly behaved) and
yuki_onna 's reading. Time was spent spending in the dealer's room. Art room was perused. But the rest of the weekend was a crazy blur of networking, socializing, and brew pubs. I met more people than I can manage to write down. I have faces to put with online handles. I finally got to meet the wonderful woman behind Living With Ghosts, la_marquise_de_ , and Ian Tregillis, the man behind Bitter Seeds. There was much splendid conversation. I cuddled my copy of The Habitation of the Blessed after yuki_onna signed it....And then there was the whirlwind of meeting folks that was the mass signing on Friday night where pbray took me around to meet people I was too shy to walk up to myself. unforth ended the evening my deciding I needed to man up and just go have Guy Gavriel Kay sign something.Craziness in bars. Craziness in pubs. Room parties. Homemade cheese. Agents. Ice cream with
unforth . Not much sleeping at all.The drive in will forever live in infamy.
pbray and jpsorrow are not allowed in the front seats together anymore.
In the hotel! wearing the hat I stole from Avery Shade immediately upon seeing it.
Brew pub!
before
jpsorrow 's reading. we are definitely role models. scbutler , pbray Avery Shade, jpsorrow 
jpsorrow doing the author reading thing.
...and wearing Avery's hat at brew pub #2
and my stolen hat
jpsorrow is a polite zombie. unforth is not so sure about this.
matociquala throwing a friendly punch at Scott Lynch
Elaine Isaak and Marie Brennan
eeknight and myself
first one is a better picture, but second one is...less blurry.
yuki_onna has great love for Habitation of the Blessed. You would as well if you had a copy. You should get a copy.
pbray has two panel modes. Official Writer and Zombie.
Last trip to the brew pub. Finally caught a good pic of Ian Tregillis. I made up for it by getting him delicious ice cream.
To sum up- holy hell that was a good time. I will be going next year. I don't get to see my author friends as often as when I was running a bookstore, and I miss them dearly. And how else will I manage to sit down to lunch with the new friends I made?
