Eastercon Report

Filed under My Writing • 08-04-2007 •

I’m writing this at home after the long drive back from Chester. I’m tired and I haven’t slept much – but this year’s Eastercon was a great success, and I had a great time.

I got to meet and spend time with all the people I was hoping to – people who I’ve only previously communicated with via email, such as:

Paul’s already posting reports and photos on his Velcro City Tourist Board site. I was intending to have some pictures of my own to put up, but my camera was misbehaving and all I’ve got are some uninspiring shots of the hotel’s exterior…

The highlights of the weekend for me were:

1) Seeing one of the manga-style illustrations SMS has done to accompany my story ‘Ack-Ack Macaque’ when it appears in Interzone.

2) Debating the future of British science fiction with Jetse over a late night dinner in a local restaurant.

3) Hanging out in the hotel bar having freewheeling, lager-fuelled conversations with the people listed above.

4) Sitting next to Charles Stross at the BSFA Awards ceremony – especially interesting for me, as my short story ‘The Last Reef’ was nominated in the Best Short Fiction category but didn’t make the final short list.

5) Participating in a discussion panel this morning – and managing to get though it without saying anything inflammatory or stupid.

6) Hearing from Focus editor Martin McGrath that he’s going to publish three of my poems in the next issue of the magazine.

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3 comments on “Eastercon Report”

  1. Gareth D Jones • April 10th, 2007 at 11:29 am •

    Hi Gareth,

    Had a great time at Eastercon too. I looked for you before I left, but I guess you were in one of the lecture rooms.

    Hope to meet up again next year!

    Gareth

  2. Dr Ian Hocking • April 11th, 2007 at 9:25 am •

    Hi Gareth

    Good to bump into you – congratulations again on the short story collection.

    Keep in touch,

    Ian
    http://ianhocking.com/thiswritinglife.html

  3. Jetse de Vries • April 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pm •

    Good to see all you people in Chester!

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