I was extremely fortunate to be able to squease the fiftieth Pennsic War into my summer schedule. This is the biggest annual convention of the biggest medieval recreation group in the US. Long story short: the midwest fights the upper east coast over ownership of Western Pennsylvania. Or as we Read more
Wew! I got to take a nice break after all those events in July and August and … oh, bother, is my break over already? It is? I have upcoming events? Well, better make a blog post so people know where to find me and I know where I’m going. Read more
Part of what drives me, that drives most of us, to science fiction is the desire to explore. To see new places and meet new people. Because some number of people really liked a particular story I wrote, I got to fly halfway around the world to a country I’d Read more
You might wonder why I spend so much time going to science fiction conventions. Is it really worth the entrance fee, the driving, the exhaustion, to talk about science fiction all weekend long with various fellow-nerds? I mean… YES. But there’s more to it than that. Networking If you want Read more
Since the very first convention I attended, I wanted to be on programming. This was partially because I saw how BAD some people were at it, and I knew I could be GOOD. I knew how to keep a conversation moving, how to stay on topic, and I had interesting Read more
This past weekend, I was Author Guest of Honor at Cleveland ConCoction! I never expected this to happen, or at least, I expected it to be something that would come after… well, after what? Winning a major award? Getting a “big five” publishing deal? Being a “GoH” was firmly in Read more
At WorldCon, I got to meet up with one of my Clarion Classmates, Kodiak Julian, who asked me, “What’s it like, attending a convention like this, now that you’re this successful, published author, I mean with multiple books and everything?” I wanted to say it wasn’t different at all from Read more