Gaylaxicon part 2

[catherineldf]

The rest of Saturday was a whirlwind of reading with the talented and fascinating Joselle (upstart_crow), several interesting panels and hanging out with new friends poet Dan Vera and Ginn Hale, author of The Wicked Gentlemen, among others. I shall refrain from listing them all since I am bound to forget someone; sufficith to say, I enjoyed talking to everyone. :-)
Skipping ahead to the Spectrum Awards Banquet on Saturday - yummy food, good conversation and oh yes, a snippet of early news - my cyberpunk story from Crave, "Medusa's Touch," made the shortlist for short fiction. Catherine grins huge Cheshire Catlike grin. :-D
This one was quite unexpected (by me, at least) and I'm quite psyched about it; it's my first stab at a cyberpunk story. And hey, 2nd time on the shortlist, third time's the charm? We'll see...

I don't remember everyone who got shortlisted (they'll update the site soon) but Ginn Hale won for her terrific novel and Joshua Lewis won for his great story "Ever So Much More Than Twenty" from So Fey: Queer Fairy Fictions, edited by none other than Mr. Steve Berman. So Fey was a winner in the "Other" category, and two other stories from the collection also made the short fiction shortlist - huge congrats to Craig Gidney and Holly Black! Joselle made the short fiction shortlist for one of her stories in a different antho and Steve made the novel shortlist for Vintage. Ginn gave the best stunned author acceptance I've ever seen and a jolly time was had by all.

And then we did an erotica panel. Cecilia Tan, Victoria Jansen and I batted around the question of "Is Sex a Viable Plot?" for the amusement of the folks who attended and each other, then it was off to try and sleep. The morning was spent having brunch with Melissa Scott and bidding our adieus before flying home without incident.
Excellent convention. I'm getting quite enthused about next year when it's here in the Minneapple. :-)

Comments

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had a good time. I um, slept, pounded more sudafed and cough syrup, napped and had some soup.

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-) Hope you're feeling better!