LonCon 3
All done, and a rousing success. The venue, a place called the Excel Centre, was an airway runway with a hanger dropped on top:
The building is loooonnnggg - it's a good ten minute walk from one end to the other. I was fortunate to register the afternoon before the con started. Very lucky, as I learned at lunch the next day when I (*ahem*) happened to be chatting with Michelle Sagara in the lunch place of my hotel when Tanya Huff arrived, saying she'd given up on registering because the line was over an hour wait. [Connie Willis was staying at my hotel as well - going to breakfast was great fun for celebrity spotting.]
My primary mission was quickly accomplished, as I located and photographed the bench the DWJ mailing list had sponsored:
['Quickly' being after wandering twice around two enormous halls randomly scattered with benches. I suspect I checked them all before finding the right one.]
After having not written at all since getting on the hell flight, I was pleased to find a nice balcony over the runway where I made good progress on Pyramids. Or, well, people-watched. Deadpool had some excellent transport jawas.
I also had actual real people show up for my fan meet-up, which was a relief! It was lovely to meet everyone! [Any time I can rabbit on about my books is good for me, but everyone was so nice that I quickly stopped being nervous - and then just didn't shut up!]
Panels were mostly quite interesting. I particularly enjoyed the romance in computer games, the Zombies! Run!, and the pessimist/pragmatism in space travel panels. Lovely to see Sarah Webb and Julie Dillon win Hugos, though sad The Book Smugglers missed out.
Off to Scotland tomorrow, which looks cold and wet (just like home at the moment, apparently).
The building is loooonnnggg - it's a good ten minute walk from one end to the other. I was fortunate to register the afternoon before the con started. Very lucky, as I learned at lunch the next day when I (*ahem*) happened to be chatting with Michelle Sagara in the lunch place of my hotel when Tanya Huff arrived, saying she'd given up on registering because the line was over an hour wait. [Connie Willis was staying at my hotel as well - going to breakfast was great fun for celebrity spotting.]
My primary mission was quickly accomplished, as I located and photographed the bench the DWJ mailing list had sponsored:
['Quickly' being after wandering twice around two enormous halls randomly scattered with benches. I suspect I checked them all before finding the right one.]
After having not written at all since getting on the hell flight, I was pleased to find a nice balcony over the runway where I made good progress on Pyramids. Or, well, people-watched. Deadpool had some excellent transport jawas.
I also had actual real people show up for my fan meet-up, which was a relief! It was lovely to meet everyone! [Any time I can rabbit on about my books is good for me, but everyone was so nice that I quickly stopped being nervous - and then just didn't shut up!]
Panels were mostly quite interesting. I particularly enjoyed the romance in computer games, the Zombies! Run!, and the pessimist/pragmatism in space travel panels. Lovely to see Sarah Webb and Julie Dillon win Hugos, though sad The Book Smugglers missed out.
Off to Scotland tomorrow, which looks cold and wet (just like home at the moment, apparently).
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Aug 20, 2014 01:29AM
Was that the same panel about Lizards in Space? The Bioware/Bethesda one? I didn't see you, I think! Darn.
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And again, it was AWESOME to see you. I tried to keep my squee to an acceptable minimum what with other people being there (for both MS and you), but in all honesty I could easily have hounded you guys around and just talked about your books.One thing I wanted to ask you when you were talking about the world-building of your new series was about your awareness of Kate Elliott's latest trilogy, where she had Africans being the main race in the UK.
Also, did you see the Petrie Museum desk up in the dealer's room? Since you'll be in the UK a lot longer, they have some amazingly appropriate things for your twist on the Egyptian influence to look at, I though, according to their programme *rummages through her leaflets and the net*
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
Check out their upcoming sf&f related stuff!
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/w...
No, I missed the Lizards one (thought it was after the panel I went to, but it was on at the same time).
Because that panel actually also mostly was about romance and relationships in Bioware and Bethesda games, heh.
I hope you're enjoying Scotland! It's a bank holiday weekend, which means it *has* to be cold and wet...Excel was so much larger than I thought it would be, but I guess it had to be in order to squeeze in the 10,000 odd people!
Scotland has alternated rainy and sunny, and has been enjoyable so far!
