MountainCon!
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agilebritI met fun people! I got signed swag! I got re-energized for my writing!
YAY!
Seriously, y'all, it was a fun con. Tiny, yes, but it's only in its third year, and I'm...unmixy with crowds, so it was good for me. And as small as it was, it gave me a lot of one-on-one time with some absolutely fabulous people, such as:
New people:
Paul Genesse: I swear, that man has enough energy for three people. I saw him at CONduit earlier this year, but didn't get a chance to really "meet" him. He's very encouraging, took me to lunch, and we were on a couple of panels together. His book, "The Golden Cord," (Whee! Dragons!) is coming out in May 2008.
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difrancis, Diana Pharaoh Francis: Super-nice lady, fabulous author, writer of the "Path" series (soulbonded animals! What's not to love?). Her first novel in a new series, "Cipher," is coming out in November. She read some excerpts from it, and it's really good. And I have a signed ARC!
Patrick Tracy: A friend of Paul's, runs a website called "Nasty, Brutish, and Short," which is a home for dark flashfic. Go check it out!
Jake Black: Comic book writer who wrote the comic book adaptation of Orson Scott Card's "Wyrms," which I picked up the first two issues of. He also works on "Smallville" and wrote the comic book adaptation for the new TMNT movie. He's a very busy fellow.
Renewing old acquaintances:
kenrand: I was so glad to see Ken make it to the Con. He's a hell of a nice guy who enjoys mentoring new writers, and he's written LOTS of stuff. He tends toward fantasy western, such as "Fairy Brew-ha-ha at the Lucky Nickel Saloon" and "The Golems of Laramie County," which are brilliant. He's won Writers of the Future too, and his life's work "Port Chicago Isn't There Anymore (But We Still Call It Home)" is coming out soon.
ericjamesstone: Writers of the Future winner, getting short stories published all over the place, notably in Analog and the Intergalactic Medicine Show. He's been a huge encouragement to me and solidified my notion that my next WotF sub should be the longer story rather than the shorter one.
Dan Willis: He writes books for Dragonlance's YA division. He kept me company when I went to eat on Saturday and is taking a look at the CatFeet and A&tS stories for me. Hopefully he can tell me what's wrong with the A&tS story before the end of the week when I'm shipping it off to Writers of the Future.
howardtayler: Writer and artist of Schlock Mercenary, a brilliant online comic. This guy quit a six-figure job at Novell to to cartooning full time, and has never regretted it. He has one of the few self-publishing success stories out there, and his third book "Tub of Happiness," is coming out in November or December. This one takes us all the way back to the beginning of the strip. You can pre-order a sketch edition (where you can get the character of your choice drawn on the last page, left blank for the purpose) up until tonight at 9pm. The quality of these books is fabulous, they're in full color, you get tons of extras...
Er. I'm gushing, aren't I?
Anyway. I had a fantastic time, I'm looking forward to seeing all these folks at LTUE in February, and a bunch of us discussed getting together as "Utah Authors" once a month to eat and shoot the breeze about our latest things. Yay, I get to be social.
Oh, and I heard the actors were really nice too. I...didn't actually interact with any of them.
YAY!
Seriously, y'all, it was a fun con. Tiny, yes, but it's only in its third year, and I'm...unmixy with crowds, so it was good for me. And as small as it was, it gave me a lot of one-on-one time with some absolutely fabulous people, such as:
New people:
Paul Genesse: I swear, that man has enough energy for three people. I saw him at CONduit earlier this year, but didn't get a chance to really "meet" him. He's very encouraging, took me to lunch, and we were on a couple of panels together. His book, "The Golden Cord," (Whee! Dragons!) is coming out in May 2008.
difrancis, Diana Pharaoh Francis: Super-nice lady, fabulous author, writer of the "Path" series (soulbonded animals! What's not to love?). Her first novel in a new series, "Cipher," is coming out in November. She read some excerpts from it, and it's really good. And I have a signed ARC!Patrick Tracy: A friend of Paul's, runs a website called "Nasty, Brutish, and Short," which is a home for dark flashfic. Go check it out!
Jake Black: Comic book writer who wrote the comic book adaptation of Orson Scott Card's "Wyrms," which I picked up the first two issues of. He also works on "Smallville" and wrote the comic book adaptation for the new TMNT movie. He's a very busy fellow.
Renewing old acquaintances:
kenrand: I was so glad to see Ken make it to the Con. He's a hell of a nice guy who enjoys mentoring new writers, and he's written LOTS of stuff. He tends toward fantasy western, such as "Fairy Brew-ha-ha at the Lucky Nickel Saloon" and "The Golems of Laramie County," which are brilliant. He's won Writers of the Future too, and his life's work "Port Chicago Isn't There Anymore (But We Still Call It Home)" is coming out soon.ericjamesstone: Writers of the Future winner, getting short stories published all over the place, notably in Analog and the Intergalactic Medicine Show. He's been a huge encouragement to me and solidified my notion that my next WotF sub should be the longer story rather than the shorter one.Dan Willis: He writes books for Dragonlance's YA division. He kept me company when I went to eat on Saturday and is taking a look at the CatFeet and A&tS stories for me. Hopefully he can tell me what's wrong with the A&tS story before the end of the week when I'm shipping it off to Writers of the Future.
howardtayler: Writer and artist of Schlock Mercenary, a brilliant online comic. This guy quit a six-figure job at Novell to to cartooning full time, and has never regretted it. He has one of the few self-publishing success stories out there, and his third book "Tub of Happiness," is coming out in November or December. This one takes us all the way back to the beginning of the strip. You can pre-order a sketch edition (where you can get the character of your choice drawn on the last page, left blank for the purpose) up until tonight at 9pm. The quality of these books is fabulous, they're in full color, you get tons of extras...Er. I'm gushing, aren't I?
Anyway. I had a fantastic time, I'm looking forward to seeing all these folks at LTUE in February, and a bunch of us discussed getting together as "Utah Authors" once a month to eat and shoot the breeze about our latest things. Yay, I get to be social.
Oh, and I heard the actors were really nice too. I...didn't actually interact with any of them.
