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I attended Gen Con this year as a civilian, in the sense that I wasn't required to show up for any official Wizards function. Despite that, I was super excited to sit on the panels of several D&D seminars, such as the Forgotten Realms seminar, the Gamma World seminar, and several others. 

I attended Gen Con this year as a civilian, in the sense that I wasn't required to show up for any official Wizards function. Despite that, I was super excited to sit on the panels of a few seminars, such as the Forgotten Realms seminar, the Gamma World seminar, and several others. 

But since I attended Gen Con on my own and since I'm also an FR author, I am able to treat the trip as a business expense. For instance, I joined fellow FR authors on a couple different occasions for various author-related events, and was able to hobnob with the likes of R. A. Salvatore, Ed Greenwood, Richard Lee Byers, Jaleigh Johnson, and Erik Scott di Bie, as well as the FR Novel Line editor Susan J. Morris.

I'm not certain how much authorial wisdom was distributed, but it was certainly very nice to swap

Norwescon is a science fiction and fantasy convention held this past weekend. I attended, and as a “Pro” no less, thanks to publication credits, which meant I got to sit on panels and hold forth on various and sundry topics.

Full report here, at WOTC Novels Book Club: bit.ly/cq1cCC

Hey, speaking of the Book Club, I hear that RSS feeds may soon allow us to subscribe to our favorite blogs. Until then, I've discovered that google reader will generate a feed for you for any page; if you're a google reader user, give it a shot! 

Norwescon is a science fiction and fantasy convention held this past weekend. I attended, and as a “Pro” no less, thanks to publication credits (insert shameless novel plug here <FREE sample of City of Torment for Kindle!>). This meant I got to sit on panels and hold forth on various and sundry topics, as the picture below reveals. Rich Baker is to my right, Jeff Grubb to my left; I believe we were talking Forgotten Realms, past, present, and future.

Attending as a Pro also meant I was asked to participate in a couple rounds of group critique for writers brave enough to submit their short stories for review. That was an eye opening experience, especially as one of the other authors providing feedback on my first panel was Brenda Cooper. I first read her when she and Larry Niven wrote

I'll be attending Norwescon 33 this weekend, and sitting in on several panels, plus doing a couple writer's critiques. In my spare time, I hope to attend a few talks by Vernor Vinge, Cory Doctorow, and John Cramer. 

Norwescon is "the Northwest’s Premiere Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention; Norwescon is one of the largest regional Science Fiction and Fantasy conventions in the United States. While maintaining a primarily literary focus, Norwescon is large enough to provide a venue for many of the other aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy and the interests of its fans such as anime, costuming, art, gaming, and much, much more."

If you're interested in stopping by and saying hi, you'll be able to find me at one of the following events, either on the panel, or listening in.

My Norwescon