a linkful Armadillocon post
Aug. 18th, 2008 09:49 amPersonal highlights of ArmadilloCon '08:
~time spent with...
Steven Utley (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
impatientape)
Camille Alexa (camillealexa)
Mary Hobson (mkhobson)
Deborah Layne (wheatland_press)
Sheila Williams
carolineyoachim
tacithydra
ellevate
These folks in particular, for various reasons, made this a particularly good con for me. Thank you to all of them.
~seeing lots of other folks, albeit much too briefly. (iwas kind of focused on the out of town visitors, to the sad neglect of a number of local people I like a lot and see too infrequently.) Though I missed a number of readings I would have liked to catch, I caught some good ones, including M.K. Hobson's, Steven Utley's, Caroline Spector's, andmarthawells'. Steven's story blew the whole audience away and will be out in the October/November F&SF ( I think; he'll correct me if I have that wrong, I hope). Caroline read from her story in the first book of the new Wild Cards trilogy, and it rocked. Mary read from her novel The Native Star, forthcoming in 2010 from Bantam Spectra, and Martha from her newest novel, The Cloud Roads, which better be coming out sometime in the not too far future, because I want to read both of these novels.
~the closing reading, which is traditionally Howard Waldrop. This year, the 30th Armadillocon, which finds Howard recovering from major surgery in the hospital, nine of us tag-team read "The Ugly Chickens," the story Howard read at the first Armadillocon. Howard read the final few paragraphs by phone, amplified for the hall. I felt privileged to be one of the readers ...and had my awe of Howard's particular and unique brand of brilliance renewed.
My own reading and panels, and the Broad Universe rapid fire reading (thanks to excellent moderation by Nancy Jane Moore) all went very well, I think.
I've just taken Camille to the train station. It's been raining lightly off and on, which is lovely. Though I sincerely hope it pours a good deluge sometime soon. I have pages and pages of friends' posts to catch up on...it may take me awhile. Today is recovery, laundry, and a massage, however. Back to the regular grind tomorrow.
~time spent with...
Steven Utley (
impatientape)Camille Alexa (
camillealexa)Mary Hobson (
mkhobson)Deborah Layne (
wheatland_press)Sheila Williams
carolineyoachimtacithydraellevateThese folks in particular, for various reasons, made this a particularly good con for me. Thank you to all of them.
~seeing lots of other folks, albeit much too briefly. (iwas kind of focused on the out of town visitors, to the sad neglect of a number of local people I like a lot and see too infrequently.) Though I missed a number of readings I would have liked to catch, I caught some good ones, including M.K. Hobson's, Steven Utley's, Caroline Spector's, and
marthawells'. Steven's story blew the whole audience away and will be out in the October/November F&SF ( I think; he'll correct me if I have that wrong, I hope). Caroline read from her story in the first book of the new Wild Cards trilogy, and it rocked. Mary read from her novel The Native Star, forthcoming in 2010 from Bantam Spectra, and Martha from her newest novel, The Cloud Roads, which better be coming out sometime in the not too far future, because I want to read both of these novels. ~the closing reading, which is traditionally Howard Waldrop. This year, the 30th Armadillocon, which finds Howard recovering from major surgery in the hospital, nine of us tag-team read "The Ugly Chickens," the story Howard read at the first Armadillocon. Howard read the final few paragraphs by phone, amplified for the hall. I felt privileged to be one of the readers ...and had my awe of Howard's particular and unique brand of brilliance renewed.
My own reading and panels, and the Broad Universe rapid fire reading (thanks to excellent moderation by Nancy Jane Moore) all went very well, I think.
I've just taken Camille to the train station. It's been raining lightly off and on, which is lovely. Though I sincerely hope it pours a good deluge sometime soon. I have pages and pages of friends' posts to catch up on...it may take me awhile. Today is recovery, laundry, and a massage, however. Back to the regular grind tomorrow.
