Worldcon update: Day 2
Wow, what a day.
Started out with a panel on why publishing takes so long, with David Hartwell. Great guy with lots of experience. Throughout the day, I hung out with a bunch of cool people including Aliette de Bodard, T. L. Morganfield, Lawrence Schoen, Mary Robinette Kowal, Shannon Page, Jay Lake, Brenda Cooper, Keffy Kehrli, Gisele Peterson, Matt Rotundo, and more names I’m sure I’m forgetting.
Then, after a lovely dinner, the parties began.
What a night. First of all, the SFWA suite was not on a party floor, so we got unceremoniously ejected from the 20th floor. They were allowed to have exactly 5 people in that room at any given time. Pretty unfortunate. Good crowd, great Asimov’s party. Sheila was absolutely lovely. I hope she got through the evening intact. Cakes looked great. Didn’t get to see them cut.
Then Matt and I found the Tor.com Rock Band party. Walk in to Jeremy Lassen singing, John Joseph Adams on lead guitar, and the place was rocking. I made my way upstairs (nice suite) and ran into Irene, the art director at Tor, who introduced me to Dan Dos Santos…. The amazing artist who is doing the cover for Black Blade Blues.
What a great guy. We talked for about 45 minutes. He really gets the novel, which makes me very happy. Turns out he liked the novel (yeah!), loves painting the cover, and plays video games. We talked Fallout for a while before Irene and crew took off for a walk.
The room was toasty. I went downstairs to watch Matt sing Aqualung on Rockband — he did an excellent job. Then I headed out to call the family and make my way back to my hotel.
Now I’m about to sleep.
It’s been a pretty enlightening day. Lots of realizations recently about the whole… I’m an auther… thing. Still hard to believe at times, but speaking with the Tor folks, and Dan, and everyone else… It’s exhausting in a GREAT way.
And, I had someone come up to me after my first ever Worldcon panel and ask me for details about Black Blade Blues so she can look for it.
ROI is strong with this one.
More tomorrow
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