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Nov. 8th, 2008 10:25 pmEveryone found me who had to find me, I think, despite my lack of owlishness or turtlelike looks. Nyssa brought with her the cover of my out-next-year book, and it looks fabulous. It looks so wonderful that I keep forgetting all the fascinating things I was going to tell you about all the fascinating people I spent the day with.
There are nine writers at the Freecon tis year and the others are all exuberantly talented. I have no idea if I'm exuberantly talented or not, and it doesn't really matter, because the others are so cool I'm going to give you a little list so you can hunt out books and see what I'm talking about. The names are in order according to where I was sitting at 3 pm, because I'm too lazy to alphabetise. My feeling is that I need to read works by each and every one of these people. in some cases I've already read a bunch, in which case I must read more. This list proves that I can read, but can't count, BTW.
Alan Baxter - who knows Chinese martial arts and horses as well as turning a mean phrase.
Bruno Bouchet - had some cool teaching tips for getting kids to think about gender,
David Cornish - I've been in love with his art for a bit and with his books since the first. Now I've discovered the man has a sense of humour and can think. Why must I wait so long before his next book comes out?
David Kowalski - who proved to me that medical doctors have less untoward shyness than PhDs. He has asked Geoffrey Blainey to help with a timeline, where as the most I can claim is sitting on Blainey's office floor (and many years ago at that - I wonder if Geoffrey remembers stray undergraduates? I wonder if I'll ever be confident enough to ask?)
Angela Freeman - she always has interesting things to say. I need to find out how her trilogy is shaping up (very nicely, by the sound of it). Time to get hold of volume 2.
Richard Harland - who is ever-awesome. I gave him a hard time today and did a "It will make you sick but your life will be less if you don't read it" introduction for The Black Crusade. It's quite true, but not fair on Richard. Mind you, he's not fair on me. He read from his next book and it isn't out till next May and it sounds like the sort of thing I love. Sort of steampunk Joan Aiken. Why isn't this fair? Because I want to read it NOW.
Gerry Turcotte - read from his screenplay - vampires in Australia. I didn't get to do more than shake his hand.
There was one burning question left unanswered today. Is Mel Gibson a vampire? No-one seemed to know. Maybe it's something we will discover tomorrow.
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sartorias and eneit- Garry - the Freecon organiser - gave me time and space to introduce Flycon, so I did.
PPS I get to do a reading tomorrow. Pity the audience, because I was nice today, which means they may well have to endure evil Gillian.
There are nine writers at the Freecon tis year and the others are all exuberantly talented. I have no idea if I'm exuberantly talented or not, and it doesn't really matter, because the others are so cool I'm going to give you a little list so you can hunt out books and see what I'm talking about. The names are in order according to where I was sitting at 3 pm, because I'm too lazy to alphabetise. My feeling is that I need to read works by each and every one of these people. in some cases I've already read a bunch, in which case I must read more. This list proves that I can read, but can't count, BTW.
Alan Baxter - who knows Chinese martial arts and horses as well as turning a mean phrase.
Bruno Bouchet - had some cool teaching tips for getting kids to think about gender,
David Cornish - I've been in love with his art for a bit and with his books since the first. Now I've discovered the man has a sense of humour and can think. Why must I wait so long before his next book comes out?
David Kowalski - who proved to me that medical doctors have less untoward shyness than PhDs. He has asked Geoffrey Blainey to help with a timeline, where as the most I can claim is sitting on Blainey's office floor (and many years ago at that - I wonder if Geoffrey remembers stray undergraduates? I wonder if I'll ever be confident enough to ask?)
Angela Freeman - she always has interesting things to say. I need to find out how her trilogy is shaping up (very nicely, by the sound of it). Time to get hold of volume 2.
Richard Harland - who is ever-awesome. I gave him a hard time today and did a "It will make you sick but your life will be less if you don't read it" introduction for The Black Crusade. It's quite true, but not fair on Richard. Mind you, he's not fair on me. He read from his next book and it isn't out till next May and it sounds like the sort of thing I love. Sort of steampunk Joan Aiken. Why isn't this fair? Because I want to read it NOW.
Gerry Turcotte - read from his screenplay - vampires in Australia. I didn't get to do more than shake his hand.
There was one burning question left unanswered today. Is Mel Gibson a vampire? No-one seemed to know. Maybe it's something we will discover tomorrow.
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sartorias and eneit- Garry - the Freecon organiser - gave me time and space to introduce Flycon, so I did.PPS I get to do a reading tomorrow. Pity the audience, because I was nice today, which means they may well have to endure evil Gillian.