World Fantasy Con I spend the weekend at World Fantasy Con in Saratoga. I used to go to a lot of SF conventions, but once Lisa started performing in the school play, it became difficult since most of the local conventions took place during "play season." Then, with Lisa in college, we saved our travel money to visit her. I've been going (and helping run) Albacon, and that's been fun, but plenty of people don't get there. So WFC was a nice way to renew old contacts (as well as make new ones).
It's a major event: 1200 people, with a very high percentage of professionals in the field: writers, editors, artists, etc. Here's a picture of the Guests of Honor:
Left to right: George Scithers , Carol Emshwiller, unsure, Lisa Tuttle, Jean "Moebeus" Girard, Kim Newman, Christopher Roden, Joe Bruchac, Barbara Roden, Guy Gavriel Kay.
Scithers bought my first published story, many years ago at
Asimov's. I also met Eric Flint, who just bought a story for
Baen's Universe. Turned out he didn't want to buy it, but was overruled by the other editors. (So much of getting published is luck.)
I'll add more later.
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