Wiscon Thoughts

[adelynne]

Wiscon was not what I expected. Much like rosefox, I'd heard "Readercon, only bigger" and expected it to be that.

On the other hand, I did adapt enough to have a good time. Seeing people was wonderful, and probably the highlight of the trip. Met mroctober for longer than 15 minutes, and he had no idea who I was. Saw matociquala and truepenny at the Gathering, buymeaclue, nihilistic_kid around here and there, ellen_kushner and deliasherman flitting like busy butterflies to and fro, sdn after her second panel, wherein we had a brief chat about fanfic, and blackholly when she crawled out of bed recovering from whatever bug she had. Met grahamsleight and desayunoencama, as well as Maureen McHugh and her lovely spouse. Learned a lot.

Heard people diss the Kushiel trilogy on multiple levels, which was highly entertaining, as they expressed most of the problems I had with the book aside from the massive culture rape.

Cleaned up nicely for the parties, and had the joy of Doyle walking around in leather pants (which prompted grailquestion and yuki_onna to explain to justbeast that he needs to obtain a pair), and generally hung around parties. Parties were not what I expected - entirely too much standing around and chatting and not enough, well, partying. When we came down to say goodbye to people on Sunday night there was a dance party going on, and that was great - I wish we could have stayed.

Monday was entirely a day of travel. We planned our England trip from Midway airport and panicked about having two days to do it in. We've mostly accomplished the task now, though. All packed and stuff, and off to England at 10pm Eastern.

I do have panel notes, and I do want to write them up, but I'm not sure I'll have the time before we leave. In that case, they'll wait until I get back.

Did I mention that I read books? Well, I did. Fiction, even! I read Valiant on the plane to Chicago, Vintage and the ARC of So Fey at the con, finishing the former on the plane to Atlanta, then The Theif by Megan Whalen Turner on the plane back. queenofthorns reviewed the series some time ago, so when I saw the first two in paperback I snagged them up. Gen certainly hooked me, so I read The Queen of Attolia yesterday, and pre-ordered The King of Attolia paperback, which comes out June 12th. I've packed a bunch more to go, and hopefully I'll have time to write about them more after we return. I'm so happy to be reading fiction again!

Also, justbeast asked meaningful questions about Glamour, and prompted me to crack open the Honour draft. It's not as bad as I feared, which is almost always the case. I'm truly looking forward to beginning the revisions to the first book when I get back from England, now. Just a reminder, that if you want to help critique it, answer this poll.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're in England? Direct from a con?

Brave girl!

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

Not yet - we're leaving tonight at 10pm. But yeah, it may have been a foolish move.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I went to Wiscon direct from finals, once. I don't recommend it, but I survived.

Oh, well. Have fun! Sleep on the plane. ;)

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

Not direct here. I passed my 1st qualifier (2nd is a year from now) on Tuesday morning. We flew to Chicago Thursday afternoon.

In retrospect, probably not one of my best decisions. But yuki_onna won a Tiptree, and I think my family would gang up and kill me if we tried Wiscon less than a month before the wedding.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! Congrats on the pass-age, and have a good trip!

[hamsterwoman]

Have a good time in England!

Heard people diss the Kushiel trilogy on multiple levels, which was highly entertaining, as they expressed most of the problems I had with the book aside from the massive culture rape.

Dissing the Kushiel trilogy is a highly entertaining pursuit :) (Actually, I finished Kushiel's Scion a couple of weeks ago, and was very pleasantly surprised by how it compared to the original Phedre trilogy.)

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

I'd skimmed Kushiel's Scion when it first came out (I refused to buy hardcover, and finding a library seemed like too much trouble). It was much better, I admit, though it does annoy me to no end how a virgin Imri doesn't, beg pardon for the crassness, blow his load in the first two seconds of his first willing sexual encounter.

And thanks!

[lunaratu.livejournal.com]

you're in england till when? em invited me to her graduation party on the tenth and i was thinking about getting coverage at work to try to come in ^_^ and I miss you! it would be very good to hang if you are indeed back in boston

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

We'll be back on Thursday, June 7th.

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

I happen to be both absent-minded and a ditz. So mea culpa on not recognizing you. Sigh. That said, it was wonderful to meet you.

And, be glad that you did not save Vintage for the plane. I'd hate for you to get sick on a transatlantic trip.

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

I didn't honestly expect you to - we'd met once, for about 15 minutes, at the very end of Readercon two years ago. That's hardly a memorable moment. ;)

And please. I read Vintage in the hotel, on a plane, and in an airport. If I'd gotten sick, you'd have heard about it. :)

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Well, when you are back from the UK and the festivities, if you have a chance to share your thoughts, I would love to hear them.