Bill

To be added.

Derek

To be added.

Gloria

1:00pm Improv Story Telling

Guests: Allison Lonsdale (Erotic SF, fantasy, and horror. Singer.), Terry Pratchett (Discworld Series author), Tad Williams (Writer Guest of Honor--author of two series and one stand alone), Phil Foglio (SF, comics, gaming, art)

This was a total hoot! Terry Pratchett is a ham and Tad Williams was pretty funny as well. For a complete transcript of the actual improv story, see Melanie Fletcher's comments on this panel. Too funny. And, I'm happy to say, I was actually able to give a suggestion on this one. An old in-joke with my hubby and some of his gamer friends--biker nuns. Heh.

Terry Prachett kept setting Tad Williams up with the most horrific plot spots.  Not that Tad wasn't doing as mercilessly a thing to Phil Foglio. Heh. And Terry kept bringing back the nuns! Whoohoo!

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Melanie

It's amazing, how a full night's sleep can make you feel human again.

Yes, I'm pretty much back to normal, which is a frigging relief, since I had to stagger out of bed and over to the convention at an ungodly hour to do some shopping before my brace of panels and other assorted duties. During my shopping binge, I took pictures of Notre Captaine Elizabeth Moon and Laura J. Underwood signing autographs at the SFWA table (someday, someday), then went in search of these, well, flashy thingies. Everyone's been wearing them this con -- they're colored flashing LED pins with magnetic backings so you can wear them pretty much anywhere, and I wanted at least one set. After rambling round the dealer's room with Lyndon trying to find them (oh, we did make a stop at the leather booth where he showed me the doublet he's going to order in a couple of months -- nice), we finally located them and I bought a red/white/blue and purple set while Lyn sprang for a green set. I'm wearing them in as earrings my first day back at work.

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