WisCon 30’s over. Between managing the computer volunteers, and being on five panels, I never had a chance to write a substantial post, and our flight from Madison to Minneapolis was canceled Tuesday night because of a fault on the aircraft.
Some Highlights:
- Laura Quilter ran informal ‘how to wiki’ workshops every morning in the computer area.
- The idea is to train people to use the FemSF wiki.
- Cynthia and I bid mumble dollars for an uncorrected proof of Ellen Klages’ first novel The Green Glass Sea.
- Ellen’s run the Tiptree auction at WisCon for several years.
- Her editor, Sharyn November, threw her off the stage so she could auction the proof.
- The novel’s based on a short story published in Strange Horizons.
- Joanna Russ told Samuel R. Delany that she is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan.
- Jane Yolen’s remembrance of her late husband.
- Susan Vaught, who won the Carl Brandon Society’s Kindred award, donated her $1,000 check to the Society’s Clarion Workshop scholarship fund.
- Catching up with Pat Cadigan, who I’d not seen since she moved to the UK.
A couple of things that bothered me:
- The moderator of one of my panels was trying to turn it into a seminar on how they could market books through a blog.
- I had proposed a panel on marketing your books through blogs.
- This wasn’t that panel.
- Political panels need to be narrowly focused.
- The same three people show up in all the political panels.
- They suck all the air out of the room.
- Liz/Badger also noticed this.
- I still need to work on “yes, and/but” when I’m responding to hostile questions from the audience.
And an idea. WisCon’s good at generating those:
- I want to apply the Barcamp/Woolfcamp model to a SF convention.
- Cyn was approached by a Southern California fan who’d like to hold a WisCon-like convention on the West Coast.
- Liz wants people to work on the FemSF wiki.
- Someone’s already interested in running hospitality.
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