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Back from Boskone
Feb. 18th, 2008 10:54 amHad a great time at Boskone this weekend. I made new friends, and had a chance to catch up with friends that I haven't seen in a while. Other folks were there but I only got a chance to wave at them while passing on escalators, or never saw them at all, such as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala who was rumored to be at the con on Saturday, but as I did not see her, I can't confirm her alibi.
One of the highlights was the panel on "Mining Your Obsessions." All of us admitted to obsessions that members of the general public might have found a tad unusual, but as genre writers at a sci-fi con, you really have to go pretty far to stand out on that bell curve. After revealing a minor obsession with lake monsters, to the point where I'd killed off Nessie in one of my books (DEVLIN'S LUCK), Tamora Pierce turned to me in horror. "You killed Nessie!" she exclaimed, with a truly awesome pout. "Yes, and it was fun!" I answered.
Tammy kept muttering about sharing a panel with a Nessie-murderer, and I bounced enthusiastically as I described how much fun it had been, giving my best impression of a cheerfully deranged killer (or a hyperactive squirrel on speed, it's really hard to tell the difference.) If I'd had copies of DEVLIN'S LUCK with me, I could have sold a dozen on the spot.
At Friday night's DEATH TO PEEPS event, my "Death of a Peep" murder book was received quite enthusiastically. If I get time I'll post excerpts up on the web.
Being wiped out from a grueling week at the day job, I hit only a few parties, but I was glad I could stop byrolanni and kinzel's celebration for the twentieth anniversary of the release of AGENT OF CHANGE, the first published novel in the Liaden universe. In an odd fit of synchronicity, I was living in Boston in February 1988, and still remember my reaction to seeing the book cover in the store--I just knew it would be something fun and different, and indeed it was.
And that's all for now!
matociquala who was rumored to be at the con on Saturday, but as I did not see her, I can't confirm her alibi.One of the highlights was the panel on "Mining Your Obsessions." All of us admitted to obsessions that members of the general public might have found a tad unusual, but as genre writers at a sci-fi con, you really have to go pretty far to stand out on that bell curve. After revealing a minor obsession with lake monsters, to the point where I'd killed off Nessie in one of my books (DEVLIN'S LUCK), Tamora Pierce turned to me in horror. "You killed Nessie!" she exclaimed, with a truly awesome pout. "Yes, and it was fun!" I answered.
Tammy kept muttering about sharing a panel with a Nessie-murderer, and I bounced enthusiastically as I described how much fun it had been, giving my best impression of a cheerfully deranged killer (or a hyperactive squirrel on speed, it's really hard to tell the difference.) If I'd had copies of DEVLIN'S LUCK with me, I could have sold a dozen on the spot.
At Friday night's DEATH TO PEEPS event, my "Death of a Peep" murder book was received quite enthusiastically. If I get time I'll post excerpts up on the web.
Being wiped out from a grueling week at the day job, I hit only a few parties, but I was glad I could stop by
rolanni and kinzel's celebration for the twentieth anniversary of the release of AGENT OF CHANGE, the first published novel in the Liaden universe. In an odd fit of synchronicity, I was living in Boston in February 1988, and still remember my reaction to seeing the book cover in the store--I just knew it would be something fun and different, and indeed it was. And that's all for now!