Thus, Sunday.
Mar. 22nd, 2009 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanI am home from Lunacon, after a surprisingly busy and quite lively signing *waves at the peoples!* wherein the LJ-less DennisMcC was a Hero of the Revolution for fetching me coffee, then a very good and informative panel on on-line fiction, and a probably too-much-fun-to-be-moral panel on Twilight the Phenomena where we determined that it's okay to enjoy dreck so long as you're properly embarrassed by the fact, and the following exchange was uttered:
"The sparklepires could just as easily have been fey."
"Oh, man, yes! A homoerotic "Twilight" would have been awes...oh. You meant fairy, not gay."
I'll let y'all decide which line was mine.
And the term "SparkleFail" was used, but not by me.
EtA: oh, and I forgot to post about the Saturday panels! I read from both BLOOD FROM STONE and FLESH AND FIRE, and people seemed to respond well to both. *whew* "What Editors Want" dispensed with the basic question (they want good books that sell well) and went on to the more interesting and useful question of what makes us sit up and take notice, what makes us roll our eyes and give up, and what makes an author career-appealing vs career-killing. It also gave me the idea for a zombie werecat story. The "Urban Fantasy" panel delved into using your setting as a POV character, and the need for significant research in order to lie convincingly, among other useful things.
Both panels were extremely well-attended, and had excellent questions asked -- you guys made my job as moderator so much easier, and for that I thank you.
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And now I have a headache, and a roast beef and chopped chicken liver and cole slaw sandwich (don't knock it till you've tried it... om nom nom), and a kitchen to paint. But I came in and caught the felines nose-to-nose in quiet companionship, and all's well at Chateau Felidae.
How was everyone else's weekend?
"The sparklepires could just as easily have been fey."
"Oh, man, yes! A homoerotic "Twilight" would have been awes...oh. You meant fairy, not gay."
I'll let y'all decide which line was mine.
And the term "SparkleFail" was used, but not by me.
EtA: oh, and I forgot to post about the Saturday panels! I read from both BLOOD FROM STONE and FLESH AND FIRE, and people seemed to respond well to both. *whew* "What Editors Want" dispensed with the basic question (they want good books that sell well) and went on to the more interesting and useful question of what makes us sit up and take notice, what makes us roll our eyes and give up, and what makes an author career-appealing vs career-killing. It also gave me the idea for a zombie werecat story. The "Urban Fantasy" panel delved into using your setting as a POV character, and the need for significant research in order to lie convincingly, among other useful things.
Both panels were extremely well-attended, and had excellent questions asked -- you guys made my job as moderator so much easier, and for that I thank you.
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And now I have a headache, and a roast beef and chopped chicken liver and cole slaw sandwich (don't knock it till you've tried it... om nom nom), and a kitchen to paint. But I came in and caught the felines nose-to-nose in quiet companionship, and all's well at Chateau Felidae.
How was everyone else's weekend?
