Bill

Well, here I am, reporting live from Sunny Cal-iforn-i-a. The day time temps have been great, maxing out in the low 80's.

The Con is great so far -- I attended two panels yesterday and part of a third, then last night went to a party hosted by EOS, the Sci Fi arm of Harper-Collins. It was fun, loaded with big names in the SF world, most of the big editors, even David Brin was there. I wanted to ask him if I could get my picture taken with him (Denise had the digital camera,) but I chickened out. Then we went to an Peruvian restaurant for a late dinner. It was really good, too.

Well, I'm off for another day of immersing myself in the world of SF.

Derek

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Gloria

10:00am The Art of Writing Fight Scenes

Guests: Sean McMullen (10 books, four dozen short stories, 11 awards. Karate Instructor, also does fencing, and teaching) Mark Tiedemann (writer and award winner), Fiona Avery (Does anything from Prose to Screenwriting to comic books), Keith R A DeCandido (Author/editor-Spiderman Novels, Star Trek, etc)

This one we had a lot of discussion and a number of demonstrations from Sean McMullen. (I really enjoyed him.) Will put down notes and comments made during the panel.

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Melanie

I probably should have figured out that something was wrong when I woke up last night at 4:15 AM feeling like I had the worst case of flu in the world. I was shivering, nauseated, and aching because the bed was so frigging uncomfortable, so I staggered into the bathroom, had a long hot shower and drank a couple of glasses of water. The glasses of water were because I recognized these symptoms -- I was dehydrated, although Cthulu only knew why (it's not like I'd been doing serious aerobics or heat work the day before).

Finally I wrapped up in the complimentary bathrobe, pulled cushions from the loveseat and chair in the room and arranged them on the floor, and went back to sleep. Not the most comfortable, but it's still better than the bed.

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