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Gaylaxicon con report
Oct. 9th, 2012 06:54 pmI had a blast. :-)
More detailed version: Friday night, I got to the hotel in time to meet my friend Mark (who've I've known for 31 years, as of last month) for dinner. We had a fun-filled dinner, then whisked me back to the con in time for Meet the Pros. I chatted with a bunch of folks, including Julia Rios, Kyell Gold, Warren Rochelle, Rhea Ewing, Kim Long-Ewing, Eric Heidemann, JoSelle Vanderhooft, and local pals Carrie and Sage. After that, I headed off to the Broad Universe reading, where I filled in for someone who couldn't make it and read with Kathryn Sullivan and Kim Long-Ewing. It went quite well and we had a surprisingly large and appreciative audience. After that, I spontaneously moderated a panel on Strong Female Characters, which was reasonably lively. None of us agreed on any of them, which is always interesting. :-)
I headed home after midnight, then came back the next morning for the Minnesota Writers panel. I did fill-in moderating on this one, too (audience feedback was that I'm entertaining even with no prep :-). We gave the MN writing life a massive plug. :-) After that, I chatted with various folks, then went off to lunch with Julia, JoSelle, Ginn Hale, Mark, Carrie, Sage and Rachel Gold. Afterward, we headed back to the con and I hung out in the bar with Barbara Schultz and Rachel, which was quite entertaining. We did our lesbian protagonists panel after that and it was lively and well-attended - I plugged Xena and a bunch of titles (hopefully someone made a list) and Barbara talked comics and Rachel and Jolene plugged some of their favorites. Then it was off to the Spectrum
Awards for best novel (see the blog at www.outeralliance.org for results).
After that, Jana joined Warren, Betsy, Julia and me for dinner. By that point, the mild crud I'd had all week and the hours caught up with me and we headed home. A whole night's sleep later, I was back at the con to meet Julia and Mark for breakfast.
Then I hung out with Ginn, then Anton and Eleanor Arneson, and sundry other folks, then the lovely guys from Sofawolf Press. Somewhere in there, I visited with Larry Sanderson at the Art Show, then went to a trans characters panel, which had definite moments. Rachel wasn't feeling well, so I took her place on the Romance panel, which I...spontaneously moderated (we have a theme!) and got to talk paranormals with Lyda, Ginn and Nicole Kimberling. Then I headed off to do a werewolf panel with Kyell, which was really fun. Then fell down, went boom and came home.
All in all, one of my favorite Gaylaxicons (I've been to the last 5) to date. I had lots of good chats (my apologies to anyone I forgot to name drop :-), did some fun programming, and learned a bit about Furry fandom. An excellent con to end my 7 con run for 2012.
More detailed version: Friday night, I got to the hotel in time to meet my friend Mark (who've I've known for 31 years, as of last month) for dinner. We had a fun-filled dinner, then whisked me back to the con in time for Meet the Pros. I chatted with a bunch of folks, including Julia Rios, Kyell Gold, Warren Rochelle, Rhea Ewing, Kim Long-Ewing, Eric Heidemann, JoSelle Vanderhooft, and local pals Carrie and Sage. After that, I headed off to the Broad Universe reading, where I filled in for someone who couldn't make it and read with Kathryn Sullivan and Kim Long-Ewing. It went quite well and we had a surprisingly large and appreciative audience. After that, I spontaneously moderated a panel on Strong Female Characters, which was reasonably lively. None of us agreed on any of them, which is always interesting. :-)
I headed home after midnight, then came back the next morning for the Minnesota Writers panel. I did fill-in moderating on this one, too (audience feedback was that I'm entertaining even with no prep :-). We gave the MN writing life a massive plug. :-) After that, I chatted with various folks, then went off to lunch with Julia, JoSelle, Ginn Hale, Mark, Carrie, Sage and Rachel Gold. Afterward, we headed back to the con and I hung out in the bar with Barbara Schultz and Rachel, which was quite entertaining. We did our lesbian protagonists panel after that and it was lively and well-attended - I plugged Xena and a bunch of titles (hopefully someone made a list) and Barbara talked comics and Rachel and Jolene plugged some of their favorites. Then it was off to the Spectrum
Awards for best novel (see the blog at www.outeralliance.org for results).
After that, Jana joined Warren, Betsy, Julia and me for dinner. By that point, the mild crud I'd had all week and the hours caught up with me and we headed home. A whole night's sleep later, I was back at the con to meet Julia and Mark for breakfast.
Then I hung out with Ginn, then Anton and Eleanor Arneson, and sundry other folks, then the lovely guys from Sofawolf Press. Somewhere in there, I visited with Larry Sanderson at the Art Show, then went to a trans characters panel, which had definite moments. Rachel wasn't feeling well, so I took her place on the Romance panel, which I...spontaneously moderated (we have a theme!) and got to talk paranormals with Lyda, Ginn and Nicole Kimberling. Then I headed off to do a werewolf panel with Kyell, which was really fun. Then fell down, went boom and came home.
All in all, one of my favorite Gaylaxicons (I've been to the last 5) to date. I had lots of good chats (my apologies to anyone I forgot to name drop :-), did some fun programming, and learned a bit about Furry fandom. An excellent con to end my 7 con run for 2012.