The rest of the weekend is now about to start and will see how it goes.
Saturday evening
Book Launch –
Brave New Girls
So it was off to attend another book launch and this one was for a
collection fo sci-fi stories featuring brainy young heroines. The
actual book isn’t going to be out until August but three of the
authors were doing reading from their stories that are part of the
book.
Masquerade
Now the Masquerade is sort of a competition for amateurs and this
year the show was only about half an hour which worked out really
well considering as you can guess there were other things to attend
in the evening. I do like attending as I like to see some of the
costumes even if I don’t know who the person is suppose to be or
anything like that. Seeing the amount of work some people put into
their costumes is amazing.
Book Launch –
Matthew Bin
One more book launch was on our schedule and again this was Saturday
evening. The books sounds really amazing so we picked up a copy of it
and now to see when we have the time to actually read it along with
everything else that we have to read.
Remainder of the evening
So the remainder of the evening was off to another party which was
the GenreCon party and then head back to the room to get some sleep
and recharge for Sunday which is the last day of the convention.
Sunday
Of course, by Sunday the energy level is starting to wear out and
that is for most of the attendees as we are trying to do a lot of
things all weekend long and don’t have a lot of time to relax and
recover between the various events.
Project
Management for Writers
This panel was to show writers have to move forward on their writing
projects. The panelists all used different methods to track their
projects and how they were getting things done so it was nice to hear
what they all had to say. The two things that I really got out of
this session were:
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Time management is also brain management and needs to be managed
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Stop starting and start finishing
Brandon Sanderson
– Reading
Once again it was time to get into this panel early to ensure that we
could get a seat and that is what we did. The session that was before
our panel wasn’t as full so it meant that we could get a good seat
and once it was over we moved up right to the front of the room and
really enjoyed the reading.
Brandon again did the q&a’s and another reading. Now this
reading was really interesting because he told us very little about
where the book was part of or anything about it. The reading was
great and what he did tell us was the book was very new as it was
written on the plane on the way to Toronto from Salt Lake City. It
was amazing to hear a reading from a book that was just being
written.
Robert Sawyer –
Reading
Now this was my final panel of the weekend and again it was a reading
by an author that I enjoy reading. Robert Sawyer also did a q&a
section and then did a reading from a book that he is currently
writing. What is interesting is finding out that this book may never
actually come out so we may be the few people that actually got to
hear anything about it. Robert Sawyer also apologized about now being
at the book signing when he was suppose to be there and once again it
was due to the wrong time being on his badge for the signing.
Final notes and observations
The overall convention was a lot of fun and I have to admit that we
were both very tired by the time we headed for home. It is always
great to see all the friends that we have made and only see at this
convention. We see other friends that we see during the year as well
so it is a nice mix of friends.
The hotel is great because they deal with a lot of people running
around in costumes and also parties that go well into the evening.
Now to see how next year’s convention is because it is going to be
held in July instead of the normal April or May.
We picked up a couple of other books that were available at the
convention but we did keep the number of books down this year which
was something for us. Normally the two of us come out of the
convention with a pile of books and then realize that we may not have
a chance to read them. I did buy one book on Sunday and part of the
reasoning with this book was I could get it signed by Brandon
Sanderson as soon as I bought it without having to deal with a line
up. Now I have a book that is over 1,200 pages so will see when I get
to read it.
Conventions can be extremely exhausting like this one is but it is
also a lot of fun and I hope that it continues and next year the
problems with the panelists schedule won’t happen.
