lagilman | WorldCon's End...

Well, not really, not yet, but this will be my last posting from Anaheim. Yesterday was a day of constant movement -- from the 10am signing at the SFWA table to my 5pm reading, and thanks to those of you who found your way through the maze of the Lido floor -- the response to the ending of the story was suitably satisfying to the author, and I hope you like the finshed product even more. For those of you who missed it... well, you're just going to have to wait a year or so to discover P.B's secret.

The "Editing" panel was great fun -- any time you get to hear Peter Beagle and Tim Powers Tell Stories, it's going to be a good time -- and I think the "care and feeding of the creative process" was helpful to a lot of folk, from the responses we got, after. So I feel like I earned my keep this weekend.

And then there was a lovely dinner with fellow pros, and a lovely post-Hugo party with most excellent plum wine courtesy of next year's Worldcon (first time ever in japan, and sorry I am to be missing it). I ended the evening in the SFWA suite, collapsed tiredly into a wing chair and lamenting the fact that all I really wanted to do was curl up in bed and sleep for six hours. So that was what I did.

Today I will be working the SFWA table this morning, then the EMF auction, and then I will finally get a chance to do some damage in the dealer's room. My credit card is already whimpering...

And then I get to sit on a plane that will take me home.

Those of you who were not here were missed, those of you who were here and I didn't get a chance to see (looks in