Monday, April 13, 2009
Norwescon 32, the PKD Awards, and more
Yeah, I'm still alive. Probably I should have brought my laptop and made a post or three from the con. Lou Anders, the devil of technology himself, is in fact encouraging me to buy an iPhone so I can Twitter my happy thoughts live to the masses at all hours of the day. That sounds exactly like what we need! "I am now picking my nose." "Who votes I should get the French Dip instead of the cheeseburger?" "I just saw Chewbacca in the hallway."Norwescon was awesome!!!!! Even not winning the PKD was okay. I'm not kidding. It really is an honor just to be nominated, most of my panels were fantastic, and I made a lot of new friends and good contacts and even just enjoyed the crap out of sprawling on my clean white bed in front of the massive flat screen in my hotel room watching stupid TV at midnight as the Pepsi slowly fizzled out of my blood stream after hours upon hours upon hours of babbling excitedly about things that I love like agents, books, biotech, and fen.
More soon.
I really, really, really have to get Zone to my editor. The photo is of myself with David Walton, co-winner of the 2008 PKD Award, split in a tie with Adam Troy-Castro's Emmissaries For The Dead.
No, I'm the guy beside Terminal Mind. David's the guy beside Plague War. It's the switcherooni. We're all about twisting your brain with big concepts, right? :)
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You know, it's funny you bring up twitter, because there's a different @jeffcarlson on there, and I've been tricked a couple times into thinking you'd gone crazy and gotten a Twitter. ;)
That said, Twitter's about more than that (of course, says the person whose last Twitter reads 'doing my taxes'), but it does tread dangerously close to dentist territory at times. OTOH, it's mostly short bits about what's on one's mind. On the gripping hand, I've seen several people whine about information overflow, so in all honestly, twitter is probably not recommended for Jeff. *grin*
Awesome big cover of your book, and I like that you switched it up to make it confusing to the adoring part of your fanbase that hasn't met you yet.
One of these days, I need to make the trip up to NorWesCon, I hear it's pretty nifty. Right now, Baycon looks like it'll be my only con of the year, although I'm glancing towards Montreal if I can find a flight cheap enough. So far, no dice.
(And yes, kat will stop writing essays in Jeff's comment section again.)
-kat
That said, Twitter's about more than that (of course, says the person whose last Twitter reads 'doing my taxes'), but it does tread dangerously close to dentist territory at times. OTOH, it's mostly short bits about what's on one's mind. On the gripping hand, I've seen several people whine about information overflow, so in all honestly, twitter is probably not recommended for Jeff. *grin*
Awesome big cover of your book, and I like that you switched it up to make it confusing to the adoring part of your fanbase that hasn't met you yet.
One of these days, I need to make the trip up to NorWesCon, I hear it's pretty nifty. Right now, Baycon looks like it'll be my only con of the year, although I'm glancing towards Montreal if I can find a flight cheap enough. So far, no dice.
(And yes, kat will stop writing essays in Jeff's comment section again.)
-kat
"Crazy dreams about intelligent raccoon people." That's all I heard, Kat. ;)
As for Norwescon, you know I'm not Super Con Man, but I have been to at least 10, and I thought Norwescon was probably the best-organized event I've ever attended. Enthusiastic crowd. Well-read. Highly recommended.
As for Norwescon, you know I'm not Super Con Man, but I have been to at least 10, and I thought Norwescon was probably the best-organized event I've ever attended. Enthusiastic crowd. Well-read. Highly recommended.
The con organizers wouldn't *give* us the artwork! Can you believe it? I mean, sure, *they* paid for the blow ups, but, wow, I was tempted to whack someone with the easel, grab the foam board poster and run for it... ;)
Apparently they have an archive from all of the PKD Award ceremonies and occasionally trot out the previous years' artwork for various displays. So I forgive 'em.
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Apparently they have an archive from all of the PKD Award ceremonies and occasionally trot out the previous years' artwork for various displays. So I forgive 'em.
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