Wordweaverlynn asked a good question on her LJ.
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Tell me about your worst experiences at a convention. (SF, mainly, but I’ll gladly listen to stories about professional conventions, political conventions, whatever.)
I’m especially interested in issues of accessibility, but also curious about anything that makes a convention unwelcoming or miserable.
If you’d rather not make your story public, feel free to email me.
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…I’m following wordweaverlynn’s thread with great interest. So if you have a story to tell, please post about it here. Especially things that the organizers could have fixed, or at least planned for. Thanks!
Apparently I also got an Honorable Mention for Pointing at the Moon. Wow. Now I feel extra-happy. 
This story is a Launch Pad influenced story. And I’ve always loved the artwork.
Hi! Just a reminder. I’m reading one of my stories at Borderlands Books on Thursday evening, along with some other excellent writers:
Clarion West reading with Amelia Beamer, Vylar Kaftan, Pat Murphy, Tim Pratt, and Rachel Swirsky, Thursday, July 23rd at 7:00 pm. Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia Street in San Francisco (in the Mission, close to 16th & Mission BART).
I’ll be reading “What President Polk Said,” which is a warm snuggly story about Gold Rush miners and it’s got lots of bunnies and sunshine. You know how I am.
All of these writers are great–some have won Hugos, and others are up-and-coming folks you’ll be hearing more from in the next few decades.
A quiet house with wood floors, somewhere in a forest. It has a basement for Shannon and an attic for me. He codes and builds things. I write and dance. We both work from home, so we’re able to keep our schedules as we like them. The house has great temperature control, so we can keep our workspaces at our preferred temperatures. We meet for lunch and dinner, of course, and on the ground floor we have a spacious kitchen and a large TV for playing our favorite videogames.
Outside, there’s long forested trails for me to walk along and think. Nearby, we’ve got lots of our friends as our neighbors. I can drop in and see what’s happening, or find people to play board games. They’re welcome at our place too. Some of them are writers or artists or programmers, and we create our work together in the same place. Maybe we even collaborate.
We’re committed to local, sustainable farming–so we share food communally with our neighbors and frequently have common meals. Some of our neighbors have kids, and I consider them all family.
Nearby, there’s a town for supplies, but it’s far enough away that we’re free from traffic and city noise. We connect to the world through the Internet, and participate in lots of online gatherings and conversations.
And of course there are cats, which I am no longer allergic to.
What’s in your daydreams?
Disarm received an Honorable Mention from Gardner Dozois in the Year’s Best Science Fiction. Yay!
So the swine flu is spreading so quickly that WHO can’t keep track of it all anymore.
I’m fascinated by pandemics in a morbid way. I know my epidemiology pretty well, but there’s something I’m not sure of.
Swine flu hasn’t been as bad as many people feared (thank Hypnotoad), but it could mutate into something more deadly. Given the current strain attacking the world, many people have already had it.
If the virus mutates, will those people who already had swine flu:
a) have better resistance to the new strain
b) face the same risk as the rest of us
c) unknown; we can’t tell unless we know exactly how it mutates
In other words, will the current bout of swine flu offer the world any protection against a more dangerous one? Anyone know? Akaba, I’m looking at you. But if anyone else knows, tell me. I believe the answer is c, but I’m not positive.
Break the Vessel is now available at Pseudopod for your listening pleasure.
I got the best fan mail about this one. He had lots of nice things to say about the story, including that it made him cry at his desk. Reading that letter nearly made me cry at my desk.
July 26, 2009 3:44 pm | 
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