But here goes. So. First I should mention I had the fabulous luck to spend Wiscon as roommates with
Because I drove (yeah, 8-hour drive. I'm a little crazy), I brought a cooler, books to give away, some books to get signed by GoH Ellen Klages and Tiptree winner Nisi Shawl, and what felt like too many clothes but turned out just about right. I also brought a book with a story in it to get signed by my friend Doselle Young but it somehow ended up on top of the TV so I forgot about it until we cleared out the room on Monday and by then I had to go and I think he was already gone. I'll have to catch him another time. Worldcon maybe.
Let's see. What to say. I met some awesome folks, including Nisi Shawl, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Ben Rosenbaum, with whom I had never interacted before, and some people I knew online but not in person like Candra Gill (who absolutely rocked my world on the Better Living Through Technology panel), Jed Hartman, Claire Light, and N.K. Jemisin. Also some influential journal writers in recent genre race discussions, like
Eileen Gunn pointed me to
I had some good meetings/talks with Terry Fong about Anticipation, including about how RaceFail and other related discussions should influence Anticipation programming. Saturday evening I took
There were a fair number of people I already knew at the con, and I didn't get to spend enough time with pretty much any of them, especially author
For now, to sleep some more.