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I'm frantically trying to catch up on the things I didn't quite finish before the Con. This is really just one email and just one bit of proofreading. One whole novel's worth of proofreading...

I came online last night had polished off 70 pages and I have until the bathroom is free to do a bit more. I possibly needed more sleep, but it wasn't going to happen. We had another weather shift, you see.

Anyhow, I'm halfway through and I have revised my natty printed timetable. I've negotiated myself off dealer room duties at lunchtime today and onto them tomorrow afternoon instead (when there's a real need for someone), which means I won't be on panels and etc consecutively from 12-3 pm, sans the catered lunch, only from 1-3 and 4-5, with lunch and coffee. Then I get a full two hours before the booklaunch. Somehow I suspect that I shan't see many panels this convention... I shall, however, see many friends (I already am so doing!) and make many bad jokes.

The chocolate is packed. I have a giant coffee. Proofreading time!

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it's been a lovely day, but my goodness, what a long one. I'm polishing off the proofreading now, so that it won't follow me around tomorrow, but I suspect I need to get to bed sometime.

My con day started with the opening ceremony. After that I was supposed to help out on the CSFG table. I sort of did. There wasn't much to do, though, so I chatted. I then had a good long talk to Keith Stevenson, whose press I may well write about on BiblioBuffet soonish.

Lunch was the last of my quiet time, for I had two panels straight after, then a radio interview, then the kaffeeklatsche. Somehow the kaffeeklatsche extended until an hour before the booklaunch. Janeen and Yaritji and Jack and I had a quiet moment in a pub in between.

The booklaunch was hugely fun. Jack is a fine host for any launch. He's entertaining and funny and makes sure that everyone knows what needs to be known. Lots of books were sold. Lots of people talked about the books that were there. Kaaron Warren and Jack Dann did a rather strange theatrical rendition of my cover blurb, with me sandwiched in between then trying not to laugh. It was, I think, one of the daftest and most entertaining book launches I have ever attended.