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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cons’
A Day at GeekGirlCon
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, GeekGirlCon on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Norwescon in a Nutshell
Posted in Writing, tagged Cons, Norwescon, NWC34, Seattle on April 27, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Last weekend was Norwescon, Seattle’s largest and longest-running science fiction convention. Now that I live in Seattle, it’s my “home con,” geographically, so I pretty much had to go. I had even planned to go home each night rather than stay at the hotel, but a second look at the logistics convinced me to find [...]
A Few Hours At Emerald City Comicon
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, ECCC, Seattle on March 6, 2011 | 3 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 [...]
Orycon Report: Portland, Panels, and Puns
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, Geek, Panels on November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This weekend I drove about 3 hours south to Portland to attend Orycon, a small-ish science fiction con of around 2,000 people. It felt like a good-sized con, although I’ve come to realize that what makes a con feel “big” or “small” is not so much the number of attendees, but the ratio between the [...]
Dragon*Con Part 4: An Affirmation of Insanity
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek on September 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When I woke up on Monday (hangover-free, although certainly not fatigue-free), my “costume” was still mostly intact, so after re-attaching the ear I slept on, I headed out to Monday panels. I wanted to squeeze what remaining drops of Dragon*Con essence I could out of the day before embarking on the 6-hour drive back to [...]
Dragon*Con Part 3: No Sleep ’til Labor Day
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I met Dan Wells at Mary Robinette Kowal’s reading, I was carrying a hardcover copy of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I had planned to get it autographed earlier in the day, but missed the signing, so the title page was still sadly devoid of a signature. When Dan saw it, he immediately asked if [...]
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