Blots from the Debauched Desk

• 23:02 home safe and sound. #

Please to be sweeping them into the wastebasket now
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I had set back a royalty check, because I'd already committed to this con and not going would have left trhree people in the lurch. So, Friday, after work, I grabbed a shower and Youngest and headed out. I paused long enough to check my e-mail and see that "the Ballad of Angelina Calamity" has been picked up by Kerlak for their Dreams of Steam anthology.

We picked up heraldofdarknes  and one of her housemates and began the trek to Nashville. Because GM was late, we made it in about 20 minutes til 7. 

irene_heron paid me a visit and we went for dinner. Lovely to see her. We had a nice visit.

The Xerps room party was on, but I only visited and didn't drink. I did, however, go to the Promoting yourself panel. My take-away: the future is the ipad and adding alcohol to insufferable mansplainers only makes them mansplain more.

Our keycards demagnetized themselves repeatedly.

The next morning I did the usual opening. The booth was pretty dead most of Sat. I made it to the Writer's Block and Time Management panel. Eric Wilson, who also looks insufferable in his headshot, turned out to be smart and funny and sex-obsessed.

I never did find my Aussie hat, so Joy let me borrow her tophat for the steampunk. It changes Angelina's look entirely. (while I know it's Georgie who wears the topper, it makes me look rather like Dim from A Clockwork Orange)

Oli was the Darling of the Dealer's Room and entered the Masquerade as a walking commercial. Some of Loren Damewood's mail, some ears from Aridani and wings from Fairystone creations.  I even entered. A very well done steampunk bounty hunter looked me over approvingly and offered me his flask, I reciprocated.  I also learned I cannot patch my right eye and take off my glasses. I literally cannot see my own face in the mirror when I do.

The Greater Nashville Area Steampunk Hive borrowed our room and threw a party. They brought all thge food and booze. Good party. John Everson and Bryan Smith had BBQ next door and the Aridani boys had their own thing going a few doors down. Good parties all.

Sunday, Oli and I dressed and went to saraphina_marie 's steampunk fashion lecture. She and I have very different definitions. Mine involves an argument with the SF of earlier eras. There is no optimism in my steampunk. The ooh-shiny comes at a cost in my world and the social problems reflect our own.

Did a roaring business, got packed and loaded with no trouble.
After the dealer's room closed and after ridiculously long closing ceremonies, we loaded reannon's car and headed home.

Good con. Good people.

Oli in her fairy and Steampunk outfits

Seen everywhere: women writers meme

Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you’ve read something of (short stories count).
*Star those you don’t recognize
Unmarked are those whose work you have not read

Andre Norton
C. L. Moore
Evangeline Walton*
Leigh Brackett
Judith Merril*
Joanna Russ
Margaret St. Clair*
Katherine MacLean*
Carol Emshwiller*
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Zenna Henderson*
Madeline L’Engle
Angela Carter
Ursula LeGuin
Anne McCaffrey
Diana Wynne Jones
Kit Reed*
Rachel Pollack*
Jane Yolen*
Marta Randall
Eleanor Arnason*
Ellen Asher*
Patricia A. McKillip
Suzy McKee Charnas
Lisa Tuttle*
Nina Kiriki Hoffman*
Tanith Lee
Pamela Sargent*
Jayge Carr*
Vonda N. McIntyre
Octavia E. Butler
Kate Wilhelm
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Sheila Finch*
Mary Gentle*
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
C. J. Cherryh
Joan D. Vinge*
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Ellen Kushner
Ellen Datlow
Nancy Kress*
Pat Murphy*
Lisa Goldstein*
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough*
Mary Turzillo*
Connie Willis*
Barbara Hambly
Nancy Holder*
Sheri S. Tepper
Melissa Scott*
Margaret Atwood
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jeanne Cavelos*
Karen Joy Fowler*
Leigh Kennedy*
Judith Moffett*
Rebecca Ore*
Emma Bull
Pat Cadigan*
Kathyrn Cramer*
Laura Mixon*
Eileen Gunn*
Elizabeth Hand*
Kij Johnson*
Delia Sherman*
Elizabeth Moon
Michaela Roessner*
Terri Windling
Sharon Lee*
Sherwood Smith*
Katherine Kurtz
Margo Lanagan*
Laura Resnick*
Kristine Kathryn Rusch*
Sheila Williams*
Farah Mendlesohn*
Gwyneth Jones
Ardath Mayhar*
Esther Friesner
Debra Doyle*
Nicola Griffith*
Amy Thomson*
Martha Wells*
Catherine Asaro*
Kate Elliott*
Kathleen Ann Goonan*
Shawna McCarthy*
Caitlin Kiernan*
Maureen McHugh*
Cheryl Morgan*
Nisi Shawl*
Mary Doria Russell*
Kage Baker*
Kelly Link*
Nancy Springer*
J. K. Rowling
Nalo Hopkinson*
Ellen Klages*
Tanarive Due*
M. Rickert*
Theodora Goss*
Mary Anne Mohanraj*
S. L. Viehl*
Jo Walton*
Kristine Smith*
Deborah Layne*
Cherie Priest (met her, sat a panel with her)
Wen Spencer
K. J. Bishop*
Catherynne M. Valente (nothing yet, but that will be rectified. I own songs based on her books)
Elizabeth Bear
Ekaterina Sedia*
Naomi Novik (read her fanfic, not her novels.)
Mary Robinette Kowal*
Ann VanderMeer
Patricia C Wrede
Mary Stewart
Caroline Stevermer*
Sharon Shinn*
Ann Rice
Barbara Michaels*
Susanna Clark*
Joan Aiken
Joy Chant*
Susan Cooper
Louise Cooper*
Edith Nesbit (E.A. Nesbit)
Carol Emshwiller*
Rosemary Kirstein*
Tanya Huff
Camille Bacon-Smith
R. M. Meluch*
Joan Cox*
Jane Linskold
Storm Constantine*
Jane S. Fancher*
C. E. Murphy*
Elizabeth A. Lynn*
Anne Bishop
Justina Robson*
Judith Tarr
Tamara Pierce
Mercedes Lackey
Julian May

State of the Sooky

Kids: Bun now has a checking and savings account at the Credit Union. She will be able to register for school.
Oli recovering from being treated as a succubus. "Who is that and why is she hanging around my son?" Grrr. We are reminded why we keep mentioning "Friends help you move, real friends help you move bodies. Real true friends are mixing the BBQ sauce."

Today: grocery, 2 loads laundry, much running about in service of the Credit Union. Made Stephen Zimmer's book signing. Usual suspect from local group did the reading. Inaudible as always.

knees killing me. must remember meds tomorrow