Friday, April 17, 2009
!!! THE GREATEST POST EVER !!!
That's right--I'm going to talk about BOOBIES! Whoo hoo! It's sure to get me in trouble, but, hey, these are important issues.
First to the main topic at last: our Norwescon 32 Insider Report.
I'm not exactly Captain Con-Goer, but I have been to more than 10 writers' and/or genre conventions, and here's what I think. Norwescon was among the best-run I've seen. For a regional con, it was also well-attended. Something like 3500 badges were sold in total, which is great. Of my half-dozen events, none had less than 15 people in the audience, and two were standing room only with 40 or more. That's awesome. Even the rather heavy duty "Biotech In Interstellar Travel" panel, which began at the ungawdly hour of NINE A.M., was packed with enthusiastic, educated, engaged people. Shazam.
The photo on top is of my final panel, "All About Agents," with Richelle Mead, Lizzy Shannon, and Gordon Van Gelder. Like most of the panelists whose time I shared, these folks were stone-cold professionals, prepared, excited, informative, and articulate. Me like that a lot.
In the meanwhile, I've gotta ask. What in the world is up with the fantasy fen and their magnificently squashed but nicely presented bosoms? Honestly. I must have seen 50 ladies in painful but naughty-looking corsets. Not that I noticed. I mean, I'm happily married. I don't even know where this photo came from.
Also... Is it just me? How wrong is this? Wasn't the female Han Solo just about the hottest thing you've ever seen in your freaking life right down to the laser blaster strapped low on her thigh gunslinger-style?
Seriously. I need to get out more.
And, finally, here's another shot from the awards ceremony. Go buy David Walton's book! I was glad to make a new buddy, glad to be included in the line-up, and above all I recommend Norwescon as a good time and a smooth-running operation chock full of mind-croggling smarts, fun, and interesting people.
First to the main topic at last: our Norwescon 32 Insider Report.
I'm not exactly Captain Con-Goer, but I have been to more than 10 writers' and/or genre conventions, and here's what I think. Norwescon was among the best-run I've seen. For a regional con, it was also well-attended. Something like 3500 badges were sold in total, which is great. Of my half-dozen events, none had less than 15 people in the audience, and two were standing room only with 40 or more. That's awesome. Even the rather heavy duty "Biotech In Interstellar Travel" panel, which began at the ungawdly hour of NINE A.M., was packed with enthusiastic, educated, engaged people. Shazam.The photo on top is of my final panel, "All About Agents," with Richelle Mead, Lizzy Shannon, and Gordon Van Gelder. Like most of the panelists whose time I shared, these folks were stone-cold professionals, prepared, excited, informative, and articulate. Me like that a lot.
In the meanwhile, I've gotta ask. What in the world is up with the fantasy fen and their magnificently squashed but nicely presented bosoms? Honestly. I must have seen 50 ladies in painful but naughty-looking corsets. Not that I noticed. I mean, I'm happily married. I don't even know where this photo came from.
Also... Is it just me? How wrong is this? Wasn't the female Han Solo just about the hottest thing you've ever seen in your freaking life right down to the laser blaster strapped low on her thigh gunslinger-style?
Seriously. I need to get out more.
And, finally, here's another shot from the awards ceremony. Go buy David Walton's book! I was glad to make a new buddy, glad to be included in the line-up, and above all I recommend Norwescon as a good time and a smooth-running operation chock full of mind-croggling smarts, fun, and interesting people.
Labels: Norwescon 32 insider report
Thursday, April 16, 2009
It's Done! It's Done! PLAGUE ZONE Is Done!!!
I still intend to bang out a more informative post about my wild adventures at Norwescon, but I've been obsessed with a final polish of Zone. You'd think it was the end of the world or something. Ha. The book is in my editor's hands at last.Off subject: I lost the PKD but here's my cosmic boobyprize. Minotauro has declared La Plaga a bestseller in the Spanish market, which means my American publisher is now changing my byline for Plague Zone to read "Jeff Carlson, International Bestselling Author." I do like me the sound of that! Wow!
To our left, we have a little book porn -- not pornography of people, but porno for book lovers. Look at those tasty muffins sitting in the window display. Must... buy... them... Touch... them...
Also fun, here's a link to charts compiled by one of Spain's book chains, which has Antidoto at #1 today on the very top of the heap. And that's in hardcover as a mainstream novel.
More soon.
Labels: International Bestseller, La Plaga, Minotauro, Norwescon 32 insider report
Monday, April 13, 2009
Norwescon 32, the PKD Awards, and more
Yeah, I'm still alive. Probably I should have brought my laptop and made a post or three from the con. Lou Anders, the devil of technology himself, is in fact encouraging me to buy an iPhone so I can Twitter my happy thoughts live to the masses at all hours of the day. That sounds exactly like what we need! "I am now picking my nose." "Who votes I should get the French Dip instead of the cheeseburger?" "I just saw Chewbacca in the hallway."Norwescon was awesome!!!!! Even not winning the PKD was okay. I'm not kidding. It really is an honor just to be nominated, most of my panels were fantastic, and I made a lot of new friends and good contacts and even just enjoyed the crap out of sprawling on my clean white bed in front of the massive flat screen in my hotel room watching stupid TV at midnight as the Pepsi slowly fizzled out of my blood stream after hours upon hours upon hours of babbling excitedly about things that I love like agents, books, biotech, and fen.
More soon.
I really, really, really have to get Zone to my editor. The photo is of myself with David Walton, co-winner of the 2008 PKD Award, split in a tie with Adam Troy-Castro's Emmissaries For The Dead.
No, I'm the guy beside Terminal Mind. David's the guy beside Plague War. It's the switcherooni. We're all about twisting your brain with big concepts, right? :)
Labels: Norwescon 32 insider report
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