Confluence

   I don’t even remember where my first Confluence was. I know who hooked me up with con programming: the Keith brothers, Bill and Andrew. I met them at a mass signing in Greensburg, and it was sometime around the time Pittsburgh Magazine interviewed me. My first Confluence may have been 1996.

   Anyway, I’ve gone with the con to Mars (Cranberry), Moon (township) Downtown (expensive parking), Mars (Cranberry again), Moon (off Enterprise Drive in the RIDIC Park) and Moon (University Boulevard)

   I regret to say, this year’s Confluence, the 25th, has been cancelled. (Hotel was sold out from under them, to become dormitory space for Robert Morris University.) Will Confluence be back next year? Almost certainly. But I’m sad for this year: Bill Keith was set for Guest of Honor, I finally have both a website and a blog, and I was going to launch The Wandering Duke there with a draft cider klatch. (No, I did not inflict a curse upon the con when they left me out of the con program book last year!)
   I am very close to bringing The Wandering Duke out on CreateSpace. Here's the map!