Bubonicon 44.

[SheilaT]

It's in Albuquerque next weekend. Anyone here going? I am.

[getting old in mke]

1. Wrong edge of the country

But with a name like that, how could you not, assuming you were close? Well, assuming you had an excellent supply of antibiotics...

[SheilaT]

2. If I had the money and the time, I'd go

to lots of the cons, travel the country for them.

[getting old in mke]

3. I know, right?

If you talk to Mr Sanderson, make sure he's done with WoT's last volume and if not send him home.

[SheilaT]

4. Mr Sanderson? Who he?

The list on the con's website of attending authors does not include a Sanderson. What has he written that I might check out?

[getting old in mke]

5. Uh, the Guest of Honor?

Elantris, Mistborn, and finishing the last several books of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (final one is due out in January 2013)?

Also the deep and moving "Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians"

[SheilaT]

6. Arrgghh! I'm an idiot.

Because I am totally one hundred percent unfamiliar with his work (if you ask nicely I can show you the cave I dwell in ) I looked for his name under the confirmed participants part of the Bubonicon website and didn't see his name.

I'm much more of a hard s-f girl, and I tend to avoid series. Sometimes even I'm amazed at my ignorance.

[SheilaT]

7. I'm back from Bubonicon!

It was great. I didn't talk to Sanderson mainly because I'm totally ignorant of him and his work, and there were other authors I wanted to connect to instead.

First was Connie Willis. I've read just about everything she's written, and she's a wonderful, wonderful human being as well as a great writer. I got to talk with her two or three times over the weekend, and she was lovely.

Steven Gould (Jumper, Wildside, and several others) was also there and I got to talk a bit with him. He has a new book coming out in January, called Impulse which is a sequel to Reflex which is itself a sequel to Jumper. If you have only seen the dreadful movie of the last, forget you ever saw the movie and get the book.

George RR Martin was also there. I'm not a huge fan of his work, just because I don't like that sort of thing, but he seemed quite nice.

[getting old in mke]

8. Just checked out _Blackout_

from the library (audio book). Looking forward to it--I really like her writing. Though each one I read for a while becomes my favorite, I have a certain enduring fondness for the foolishness of _Bellwether_.

And how many authors that you hadn't heard of have you now discovered. That's one of the amazing things with cons: there are always more people writing more stuff than I will ever have time to read, and each time I come back determined to read it all

[SheilaT]

9. Yes, there were several such but they all write

high fantasy series, which I am totally not interested in. But I did chat with a couple of those authors and they were like pretty much all authors at a con, very nice. I had breakfast yesterday with Caroline Spector who writes high fantasy and collaborates with George Martin in the Wild Card books. We discussed writing, and I'm very grateful to her for being willing to chat with me.