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Whilst fording a creek to go climbing today, I got my phone wet*. Reader, it drowned. The good new is, my new iPhone is in the mail already. The bad news is, all my contact list seems to have drowned with the phone. So if I've ever called you, or texted you at a convention or whatever, and you don't mind that happening again, please send me your number. exoblivione AT gmail DOT com
*For seconds! Seconds only. Apparently my phone can survive being dropped at industrial concerts just fine, but melts at the slightest moisture.
My Readercon schedule, now with more detail:
Friday 2:00 PM, VT: Reading (30 min.)
from her forthcoming novel, The Bone Palace.
Friday 5:00 PM, Salon G: Panel
On the Beach on the Beach. Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Amanda Downum, Peter
Straub, Sonya Taaffe (L).
We tend to think of comfort reading as not so far off from the beach book -- by
definition reassuring, non-taxing, a return to the familiar at a stressful moment in
time. But what if your first encounter with a favorite book was less milk and cookies
than five-alarm chili? Come and compare notes with fellow readers on the books you
love dearly that initially puzzled, unsettled, or took you by surprise (and may
still). Statistically, you can't be the only person in the field who opens up Pale
Fire on a bad day.
Friday 7:00 PM, Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch
Sunday 2:00 PM, ME/ CT: Talk / Discussion (60 min.)
The Appeal of Lovecraft. Mike Allen with discussion by James L. Cambias, Michael
Cisco, Amanda Downum, Theodora Goss, Donald G. Keller, John Langan, Faye Ringel,
Diane Weinstein.
Let's face it: Lovecraft was a racist and an anti-Semite, and if you don't believe
his writing is atrocious, try reading it aloud. But these days that gaunt young man
from Providence is more popular than ever. What gives?
*For seconds! Seconds only. Apparently my phone can survive being dropped at industrial concerts just fine, but melts at the slightest moisture.
My Readercon schedule, now with more detail:
Friday 2:00 PM, VT: Reading (30 min.)
from her forthcoming novel, The Bone Palace.
Friday 5:00 PM, Salon G: Panel
On the Beach on the Beach. Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Amanda Downum, Peter
Straub, Sonya Taaffe (L).
We tend to think of comfort reading as not so far off from the beach book -- by
definition reassuring, non-taxing, a return to the familiar at a stressful moment in
time. But what if your first encounter with a favorite book was less milk and cookies
than five-alarm chili? Come and compare notes with fellow readers on the books you
love dearly that initially puzzled, unsettled, or took you by surprise (and may
still). Statistically, you can't be the only person in the field who opens up Pale
Fire on a bad day.
Friday 7:00 PM, Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch
Sunday 2:00 PM, ME/ CT: Talk / Discussion (60 min.)
The Appeal of Lovecraft. Mike Allen with discussion by James L. Cambias, Michael
Cisco, Amanda Downum, Theodora Goss, Donald G. Keller, John Langan, Faye Ringel,
Diane Weinstein.
Let's face it: Lovecraft was a racist and an anti-Semite, and if you don't believe
his writing is atrocious, try reading it aloud. But these days that gaunt young man
from Providence is more popular than ever. What gives?
