ACQUIRING: Wiscon Books & Magazines

Well, it's been a banner week here at the EV Zine Blog. I've been a posting maniac. Hopefully I can keep up something like this pace so that new readers don't get bored by me. :)

In addition to the cool moments I singled out the other day about Wiscon, I also came home with some sweet books:

Here are the books and magazines I came with from Wiscon. They are (from left to right, top to bottom):
Sybil's Garage #4, Say...What's the Combination?, LCRW #20, Swans Over the Moon by Forrest Aguirre, The End of the Story by Clark Ashton Smith, The Door to Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith, Precious Dragon by Liz Williams, Strange Birds by Lisa Snellings-Clark and Gene Wolfe, The Princes of the Golden Cage by Nathalie Mallet, Fantasy edited by Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay, Living Shadows by John Shirley, and my badge, which is not a book.

Then I got to thinking; picking one highlight from each day just doesn't do the convention justice. And it isn't fair to all the amazing moments that I took part in. For example, taking Karen Joy Fowler (who had a super-cute haircut, IMO) out to lunch and just chatting about...well...nothing in particular was incredibly awesome. Meeting Maureen McHugh for the first was great, too. Being told that I was a selling point for Think Galactic Con (which I'll have to miss this year due to moving...but YOU should go, it's run by some amazing people; I mean, how often do you get to go to the inagural year of a convention?) was very humbling and egotastic at the same time.

I've had some moments lately where I've been the target of schmoozing. This is not bad, just different. Normally I'm the one schmoozing and wooing authors and the life. It's strange to have hit a moment in my career where people are seeking me out.