World Fantasy
I know there’s at least three of you hot to read my next Writing to Sell post, but it’s been a busy week with work and house guests, and tomorrow I am off to Canada for the World Fantasy Convention in majestic Calgary.
(Er… is Calgary majestic? I assume so, because they held the Olympics there, but you never know. I just needed an adjective. Maybe I’ll come back with a better one after I see it for myself.)
Jay Franco and I leave at 5am for a 7:55 flight out of JFK, returning Monday morning (at dawn, after flying all night). WFC is probably our favorite con in a lot of ways, because it is all industry folks and networking. I dig a fan con as much as the next nerd, but I am still new to the professional side of things, and like to meet as many people in the industry as I can. I learned a great deal last year, and this year promises to be even better.
First off, they are giving away boxes and boxes of free copies of my first novel, The Warded Man, at the convention. That is fucking awesome. In addition, I will be doing a reading from the book on Friday at 11am, and am sitting on a panel Saturday at 8pm entitled “Vampire Elves and Other Lines That Should Never Be Crossed”.
The rest of the time I will be at the bar.
Slightly nervous about the reading. I am generally okay with public speaking and reading, but I’ve never read my own work in public before, and I have only 30 minutes to read a piece that took 32 in my last trial run. I cut out a page and a half in my teacher’s copy, so hopefully that will fix the problem.
Tell you all about it when I get back. Have a great weekend everyone, and anyone in Calgary please stop by and say hello!
*sigh* I wish I were going to be there. You guys have fun for me. 🙂
I am still quite cross with you for not going.
Make that four eagerly awaiting the next Writing to Sell post. I’ve just found your blog and am really enjoying it. Have fun at the con.
George R.R. Martin:
If you are reading this, please go to Peat’s reading and sit right up front.
Do this small thing for me and I will be the happiest man on earth. It will totally make up for me going out 2 turns before him in our last RISK game. Or that time he beat me in Scrabble by 124 points.
“and am sitting on a panel Saturday at 8pm entitled “Vampire Elves and Other Lines That Should Never Be Crossed”.”
Oh to be there for that…