All of my panels so far have been awesome, and I keep getting great feedback. <3 "Take Back the Sci-Fi" was made of win this time! Strong ground rules and firm moderation were exactly what it needed.
Reading went great. :) Full house again, second year in a row! I read "Spaces Between" first, and several people were tearing up; a few have actually pressed their hands to their hearts when telling me what it was like to hear it. I am very squee about that. :) When I am less utterly exhausted, I'll take a look to see if it even really needs any editing, and it gets sent out. I followed up with "The Library, After" (which a certain editor is hanging onto) and "Nine Things About Oracles" and "And to my Wife", which will be in the next issue of Electric Velocipede. "Spaces Between" and "The Library, After are both fairly wistful, though the latter has some funny, and "Nine Things has sharp edges, so I finished with "And to my Wife" because I figured everyone could use a laugh, and it has maybe my best final line ever.
Um. Brain is. Tired.
Remind me to tell you all about Worldwide Fornication Day.
That and getting my IAF auction winnings - the art yarn by Emily and the mask by Mandy - and I am just continually gobsmacked by how completely amazing my friends are. How talented. How everything. My refrain for much of today was "Wow. I am so incredibly lucky that these people are in my life."
And I got to see
And my only real complaint is that there are so many fantastic people here and so many "whee!" things constantly going on that I am running myself ragged. Sorta hanging by a thread right now, and would totally just go to sleep if I didn't have evening plans.
Tomorrow afternoon I rest. After frantic packing and a final panel tomorrow morning.
And... more details when I can think straight, which I totally cannot right now.