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[Mon, 03Jul06 1134] From: "Jean Lorrah" <jean@simegen.com> To: simegen-l@simegen.com, sgstaff-l@simegen.com Cc: juamfalme@aol.com Subject: [Simegen-L] Westercon Report Typing on a PDA with a portable keyboard--will be brief. Expect book news soon, after plans are definite. Productive meeting with new publisher yesterday, but nothing is sure till it's in writing. Workshop went very well--good students with good ideas ready to work on them. Panels and kaffeeklatsch today. Later! Jean ----------------------------------- [Wed, 05Jul06 1525] From: "Jacqueline Lichtenberg" <jl@simegen.com> To: sgstaff-l@simegen.com, simegen-l@simegen.com Cc: Writers Guild Workshop WRITERS-L@simegen.com Subject: [Simegen-L] Westercon Folks: A whirlwind 5 days in San Diego. The convention topped out at just over 600 people, with more than 500 attendees present. A number of program participants didn't show up, so there were the usual last minute panel reassignments, but all mine and Jean's went just as listed in the pocket program. The weather was benign, some fog, but mostly sunny and humid. Cool compared to Phoenix. The convention hotel was about a block from a shopping center with a Sears and a group of small restaurants that did takeout. The Sears had a convenience mart's type of food supplies. There were a few more small restaurants nearby, too, and one of them had a free hotspot. The convention ran it's own wireless hotspot, contracted for the entire 5 days and free to attendees -- but you had to be close to Registration where the antenna was located. The con used it to check credit cards, but Jean and I used it to log on with our PDA units (much lighter than the computers we used to carry about cons) and check email. I didn't have a keyboard, but Jean had one of these tiny keyboard attachments which she used to drop that very quick report you saw a couple days ago. We're hoping worldcon will have it's own free wireless! There were a lot of children at this convention -- and children's programming had a Harry Potter theme. The first event was when they hatted all the children and assigned them to schools. Soon afterwards you saw children running around with the most incredible assortment of magic wands! I had a room on the side of the hotel facing the ocean and the area where the theme park that has fireworks is -- so I had a view of the 4th of July fireworks (which I saw 2 or 3 bright explosions of as they rose over the range of hills between us and the ocean) -- and the daily fireworks, which I never did get to see but I heard them. Saturday Jean and I cruised the convention, talked to many people, had many interesting conversations in the dealer's room, signed a bunch of our books they had sprinkled around, nibbled fruit and nuts in the green room, and talked our heads off in the con suite, and hallways. Jean had 2 panels which came off very nicely. We managed to make it to several parties that night, too. Most evenings we spent an hour or so in the big bidding parties held by various committees. Sunday we did panels and talked and talked. We presented the new writing workshop that we developed just before the con, and had 11 or 12 hard working students who got through most of the material in our handout in the 2 hours of the workshop. After my last panel, we had dinner with an acquisitions editor who stopped me as I was leaving the panel room and just started talking. That several hour long conversation may eventually lead to some book news which we will rush to you as soon as we have anything concrete. And we did more panels Monday (by which time I had laryngitis but not really badly) and Tuesday we did more -- the convention ran through the afternoon of the 4th. I got supporting memberships in some other conventions -- Westercons and Worldcons. Las Vegas, not Phoenix, won the bid for 2008's Westercon. Jean was rooming with Kaires but we usually met for breakfast together -- and started spinning more tales we want to write and talked at length about marketing strategies. I have some interesting notes I've brought home to work on. A really splendid high point of the con was late Monday -- I walked out of a panel into the hallway and got hatted myself! I have a Temporary Student ID card to prove it. I made HUFFLEPUFF! (whew! at least it isn't Slitherin). Live Long and Prosper, Jacqueline Lichtenberg http://www.simegen.com/jl/ "The Vampire's Friend" Audio http://www.simegen.com/writers/audio/ ----------------------------------- [Thu, 06Jul06 0428] From: Annpiccolo@aol.com Subject: Re: [Simegen-L] Westercon To: simegen-l@simegen.com In a message dated 7/5/06 6:29:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jlists@simegen.com writes: >A really splendid high point of the con was late Monday -- I walked >out of a panel into the hallway and got hatted myself! I have a >Temporary Student ID card to prove it. I made HUFFLEPUFF! (whew! >at least it isn't Slitherin). Well, now you're not the only Hufflepuff out there. I'm pretty sure I'm one too. Ann -----------------------------------
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