From a personal perspective, this year’s Norwescon was probably the most complete and rewarding convention I’ve ever been to. Over the course of four days, I switched between the roles of writer, cosplayer, and photographer. I hung out with old friends, met new ones, mingled with professional authors, and hung out far too late at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cons’
Norwescon: Best Con, or Best Con Ever?
Posted in Writing, tagged Cons, Cosplay, Geek, Norwescon, NWC35 on April 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Basking in the Crowd at Emerald City Comicon
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, Cosplay, ECCC, Geek, Photos, Seattle on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday was an excellent day. After spending the morning at Writers Group, and getting feedback on Chapter 1 of a new novel, I headed over to the Washington State Convention Center to spend the afternoon at Emerald City Comicon. This was the second year in a row I spent a day at ECCC, and I [...]
A Day at GeekGirlCon
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, GeekGirlCon on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This weekend was the first annual GeekGirlCon, a new convention in Seattle dedicated specifically to the girls and women of geekdom. And even though I’m not a geek girl, I decided to spend a day there on Saturday. (After all, I go to Dragon*Con every year despite not being large, green, and scaly…) And sure [...]
Halcyon Dragon*Con Days (or Was That “Daze”)
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Photos on September 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard to believe this was my third year at Con. I can distinctly remember the night over two years ago, when I was talking with some friends about this awesome-sounding thing called Dragon*Con, and decided to drive down to Atlanta pretty much on a whim and check it out. Since then, it’s been a [...]
What Happens in Reno, Gets Blogged
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, Networking, WorldCon on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I went to the World Science Fiction Convention, aka WorldCon, in Reno, Nevada. Most cons are held each year at the same venue in the same city, but WorldCon moves to a new city each year. It’s a bit like the Olympics, in that groups from potential host cities put together bids, which [...]
Prepping for WorldCon
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Novel, WorldCon on August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow morning I catch a plane from Seattle to Reno for the World Science Fiction Convention– four days of soaking up wisdom from professional writers and editors, meeting lots of cool people, and in general having fun and reveling in pure geekery. I spent some time going through the program, marking off stuff I’d particularly [...]
A Few Hours At Emerald City Comicon
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, ECCC, Seattle on March 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It pains me to admit that, by and large, comic books are a gaping hole in my geek-cred. I’ve only bought a handful over the course of my life, and while I’ve certainly seen my share of comic book movies, in general I prefer my stories to be of the wordier variety. But I still [...]
RustyCon Report, and Related Ramblings
Posted in Writing, tagged Cons, RustyCon, steampunk, twitter on January 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On Saturday, I spent the day at RustyCon, a small science fiction convention hosted near the Seattle airport. By small, I mean probably not more than 500 attendees, which makes it easily the smallest convention I’ve ever attended. However, it still felt reasonably dense, because it was pretty much clustered into one wing of conference [...]


