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Rainbow Con: Saturday
Jul. 18th, 2015 09:33 pmBy some quirk of scheduling, I wasn't on any panels today and there weren't panels that strongly drew me (these are, of course, related). So I took a bit of a slow day. The Queer SF facebook group was doing a group photo at 9:30 and I didn't get up early enough to do my workout before that.
10am - "Author Etiquette" - Always interesting to see what the micro-cultural attitudes are. Attitudes around reviewing seem to be most variable. In the self-publishing communities, there seems to be this idea that reviewers are providing feedback to the authors, in addition to providing information to readers. There also seems to be a perception that this author feedback is often driven by negative motives. I'm still a bit baffled by this (and encounter both assumptions in several of the facebook groups I frequent). The panel provided lots of good, basic advice which mostly boils down to "don't react and don't be a dick."
There wasn't anything I felt strongly about in the 11am slot so I hit the gym and then got a salad in the cafe where I was approached by someone I'd met on Twitter who I didn't even know was going to be present and we had a nice chat. (Good thing she approached me, because her badge name was entirely different from her Twitter name.)
1pm - "The Appeal of the Fairy Tale Retelling" - Trading examples of reworking fairy tales from various cultures.
2pm - Guest of Honor speech - The two guests of honor work in graphic novels, which isn't really my thing (although thanks to the Hugo packet, I'd been able to have an intelligent conversation with one of them in the dealers' room yesterday). But I figure it is a Good Thing to attend GoH speeches.
Nothing really drew me in any of the afternoon sessions, so I took the opportunity to sit in the lounge and finish putting together notes for my panels tomorrow. Had someone drop by to chat, which was nice.
But as 5pm passed, I decided I needed to take positive action if I didn't want to eat alone again. Passing through the dealers' room, I stopped to chat with a trio of women I'd interacted with several times previously and--without giving myself time to talk myself out of it--asked if they had dinner plans. They did. So I jumped off the cliff and asked if I could possibly join them. I could. (Which was an enormous relief because I realized at that point that if they'd said no, I wouldn't have been able to hold it together long enough to ask anyone else.) Well, I hit the jackpot. Lovely, entertaining company with wide-ranging interests that intersected my own in all sorts of odd ways. And fortunately they felt they'd made a good choice too! (Oh, and I think I sold a couple more books over dinner. But it would have been great even without that.)
And with that, I'm tapping out for the evening again. (Evening entertainment was a masquerade and then the usual "adult" panels and readings.)
10am - "Author Etiquette" - Always interesting to see what the micro-cultural attitudes are. Attitudes around reviewing seem to be most variable. In the self-publishing communities, there seems to be this idea that reviewers are providing feedback to the authors, in addition to providing information to readers. There also seems to be a perception that this author feedback is often driven by negative motives. I'm still a bit baffled by this (and encounter both assumptions in several of the facebook groups I frequent). The panel provided lots of good, basic advice which mostly boils down to "don't react and don't be a dick."
There wasn't anything I felt strongly about in the 11am slot so I hit the gym and then got a salad in the cafe where I was approached by someone I'd met on Twitter who I didn't even know was going to be present and we had a nice chat. (Good thing she approached me, because her badge name was entirely different from her Twitter name.)
1pm - "The Appeal of the Fairy Tale Retelling" - Trading examples of reworking fairy tales from various cultures.
2pm - Guest of Honor speech - The two guests of honor work in graphic novels, which isn't really my thing (although thanks to the Hugo packet, I'd been able to have an intelligent conversation with one of them in the dealers' room yesterday). But I figure it is a Good Thing to attend GoH speeches.
Nothing really drew me in any of the afternoon sessions, so I took the opportunity to sit in the lounge and finish putting together notes for my panels tomorrow. Had someone drop by to chat, which was nice.
But as 5pm passed, I decided I needed to take positive action if I didn't want to eat alone again. Passing through the dealers' room, I stopped to chat with a trio of women I'd interacted with several times previously and--without giving myself time to talk myself out of it--asked if they had dinner plans. They did. So I jumped off the cliff and asked if I could possibly join them. I could. (Which was an enormous relief because I realized at that point that if they'd said no, I wouldn't have been able to hold it together long enough to ask anyone else.) Well, I hit the jackpot. Lovely, entertaining company with wide-ranging interests that intersected my own in all sorts of odd ways. And fortunately they felt they'd made a good choice too! (Oh, and I think I sold a couple more books over dinner. But it would have been great even without that.)
And with that, I'm tapping out for the evening again. (Evening entertainment was a masquerade and then the usual "adult" panels and readings.)
