Readercon was AWESOME. Awesome, I tell you. I always have fun at cons, but I had a particularly good time at this one. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the guests of honor were two of my favorite contemporary writers, James Morrow and China Mieville. (Just imagine if they’d had George R. R. Martin as a third guest of honor … but then my head probably would have exploded, so perhaps it’s just as well.) Overall it was just a great group of people, and small enough that it felt like a family gathering. By Sunday afternoon some of us were too exhausted/wound up to sit still anymore, so we blew off some steam with a no-holds-barred round of frisbee tossing. Check out the photos.
Something else cool happened this weekend. Back in the spring, I had a few classes taught by director Ted Post, whom you can see has had a long career in Hollywood. I had just finished writing “Blood of Virgins,” so I gave him a copy to read. He said he’d call me with his comments. I didn’t hear from him, and figured he was busy, and sort of forgot about it as I wrapped up the semester and packed to go to the Netherlands. My cell phone didn’t work in the Netherlands, but when I just got back to New York I found a message waiting for me. It was Ted Post. He’d read my story and was extraordinarily enthusastic and complimentary. He said, “Do you have an agent? Have you done anything with this? What about Disney? I think they might really be interested in this.” I called him back yesterday and chatted with him, and he suggested a few things I should try to get my stuff read by the right people. He said, “With your talent you should be being read and reviewed by all the top critics. You should be making lots of money and spending every day telling stories.” I promised I’d call him back in the fall and let him know what I was doing with myself. Overall it was just a tremendously exciting and motivating conversation.
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