Gaylaxicon schedule and assorted

Yay! Only seven more days!
Friday, October 5th - Midnight
"Fantasy Lovers and Erotic Aliens: Queer Erotic SF/F/H"
Caro Soles, Catherine Lundoff

Saturday, October 6th - 4PM
"Lesbians in Red Shirts: Is the Lesbian Mortality Rate in SF/F/H Too High?"
Jane Fletcher, Selina Rosen, David B Coe, Catherine Lundoff

I'm also a nominee at the Spectrum Awards on Saturday night. :-D

And of course, I'm lucky enough to be reading with the fabulously talented Steve Berman and Eugie Foster at Outwrite on Thursday night, 8PM.
Very pleased about that. :-)
Also looking forward to hanging out with various and sundry cool folks, including my pal from long ago college days, Mark and his delightful partner, who I don't get to see often enough because they live in Florida.

Apart from this, I'm getting over a cold and the thought of yet another midnight smut panel makes my geriatric self groan. But then we wanted to be a professional author, now, didn't we? This is apparently something akin to being a vampire.
But hey, gruesome release at work is done without me having to go in and babysit it tomorrow at the crack of dawn. And I had a marvelous conversation with my publisher today which included the following exchange (paraphrased)-
Him: "So have you thought about going to the Lambdas next year? Seeing as "Crave" should make the nominees list?"
Me, slightly garbled, "Ah, no. I thought I'd wait and see...."(drifts off into babble). Because it hadn't really occurred to me that it might happen and I might need to plan for it. But very pleased at the notion. :-)