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I had a great time (even before Terri and I won the award). My only complaint is that I couldn't sit down and talk to everyone I wanted to because the convention was more like a mini Worldcon than a usual WFC-1100 members or so. I got in Thursday afternoon after driving up with Paul Witcover and Rick Bowes. The trees, alas, were not as colorful as we'd hoped but the drive was still fun and pretty.
I remember a blur of meals, drinks (the Aussie party was especially good, the first night of the con), conversations, gossip (with Serena Powers, who I never get to hang out with long enough at cons, and who looked gorgeous and mysterious at the banquet--she was wearing a hat low over her eyes--I didn't get a photo of her but someone else must have). Sunday right after the banquet I drove over with Patricia McKillip, David Lunde, and Delia Sherman for a signing at Albany's Flights of Fantasy that we'd committed to. So if anyone was wondering where I disappeared to after the banquet, that's where. The staff members were really nice (they had been in the dealer's room during the con) and a bunch of us (there were 12 at the signing) went back to Maria's for a quick bite of dinner before heading back to Saratoga. Sarah Monette had to leave at an ungodly hour in the morning so we and Elizabeth Bear (driving)got back to the hotel around 9:30 or so. Where I partied for a few more hours, saying my goodbyes.
Aside from the delight of winning the award, the new, Prime Books edition of Black Thorn, White Rose made it in time for its debut at the convention. It's a trade paperback and looks good, despite my qualms about frogginess vs sexy female on the cover as a selling point.
So many people have already posted reports that I don't feel the necessity to do my own (which is a good thing, since I've a lousy memory) but the photos should do the trick. There were lots of folk I would have loved to have photographed but didn't get to or got such lousy shots of that I deleted them. I'll post photos some time in the next few days when I get caught up (or bored).
The cats were very happy I was home yesterday. Bella wouldn't leave me alone begging for hugs and pets and being a total nuisance. Dinah asked for a lot of petting, too. I missed them too though so that's ok.
Still sorting through papers, notes, things I have to take care of and follow up on. If I think of anything else interesting, I'll add it later.
I knew I forgot something. I won a Sony e-reader at the Orbit party raffle! Very exciting. I could tell that everyone else there coveted it ;-) I hoping I find it useful--I may need someone to help me set it up to see how it works.
I remember a blur of meals, drinks (the Aussie party was especially good, the first night of the con), conversations, gossip (with Serena Powers, who I never get to hang out with long enough at cons, and who looked gorgeous and mysterious at the banquet--she was wearing a hat low over her eyes--I didn't get a photo of her but someone else must have). Sunday right after the banquet I drove over with Patricia McKillip, David Lunde, and Delia Sherman for a signing at Albany's Flights of Fantasy that we'd committed to. So if anyone was wondering where I disappeared to after the banquet, that's where. The staff members were really nice (they had been in the dealer's room during the con) and a bunch of us (there were 12 at the signing) went back to Maria's for a quick bite of dinner before heading back to Saratoga. Sarah Monette had to leave at an ungodly hour in the morning so we and Elizabeth Bear (driving)got back to the hotel around 9:30 or so. Where I partied for a few more hours, saying my goodbyes.
Aside from the delight of winning the award, the new, Prime Books edition of Black Thorn, White Rose made it in time for its debut at the convention. It's a trade paperback and looks good, despite my qualms about frogginess vs sexy female on the cover as a selling point.
So many people have already posted reports that I don't feel the necessity to do my own (which is a good thing, since I've a lousy memory) but the photos should do the trick. There were lots of folk I would have loved to have photographed but didn't get to or got such lousy shots of that I deleted them. I'll post photos some time in the next few days when I get caught up (or bored).
The cats were very happy I was home yesterday. Bella wouldn't leave me alone begging for hugs and pets and being a total nuisance. Dinah asked for a lot of petting, too. I missed them too though so that's ok.
Still sorting through papers, notes, things I have to take care of and follow up on. If I think of anything else interesting, I'll add it later.
I knew I forgot something. I won a Sony e-reader at the Orbit party raffle! Very exciting. I could tell that everyone else there coveted it ;-) I hoping I find it useful--I may need someone to help me set it up to see how it works.