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Sunday, July 30, 2006 Demi Con Day 3 - I'm back

Well, DemiCon is over. Closing ceremoies occured at 3 pm this afternoon, where I won an autographed Kevin J. Anderson book in the volunteer drawing. Also picked up some other freebies, and then Steve and I ate dinner at the Machine Shed. Steak & Shrimp... yummy!!! Then we came home. After letting the kitties tell us how bad we were for abandoning them for two days, we commenced with the mundane stuff of getting back to real life. I'm off work tomorrow, hooray!, so hope to get lots of writing and other stuff done. Will be way too hot to go see the horse. :(

So... we left off with your intrepid writer in the consuite at 1 pm yesterday. I was having a conversation with some lovely ladies who had held a bacon-themed room party the night before. They were doing it again, and they watched me fall as I had one of the most marvelous peanut butter rice crispy squares covered with chocolate (about a 1" square, so not way mega bad), and then watched as I hugged Susan, the maker of said chocolate since that was the first REAL (by real I mean non Weight Watchers, non diet chocolate I'd had in 18 weeks.) I then went to some panels, went to panel of my own, Defining Evil, which I was on with authors Rob Chilson and Ruth Souther whose book Immortal Journey: The Death of Innocence is published by Laruso Publishing. I also happened to meet some folks from Laruso and they're the nicest people.

Spent the night watching the Masquerade in which people with far more time and skills than I display their costumes. Very awesome. Then, hung out visited room parties. Nearly orgasmed from a piece of bacon and waffle at Laura's lovely "bacon party the 2nd day." and then I had my midnight reading, which began by my walking up and down the halls telling people there was erotic science fiction and fantasy being read. A few people left their drinking and partying to come join me, and I had a very nice reading.

Crashed at 3 am. Alarm went off at 8. Decided no swimming for this writer, and I went back to bed until time to wake up, shower, and head downstairs for my panel on Mythic vs. the Mundane, on how we put the mythic into the mundane. Run upstaris, pack, check out, back down stairs for an ebook panel held with Bill, a very nice and cool guy from the local sf club who is way into ebooks. Go him!!!! And then to my book sale where I sold a few books, which I consider awesome considering that I'm selling romance to a science fiction/fantasy crowd... one more tour through the dealer's room to talk to the lady selling Buffy dolls... I want.... I will talk to her later since she's in Iowa City.... and then closing ceremonies and home.

So for those who haven't been to RT, since I liken a sf convention to RT only with less cover models (sniff! sniff!), but lots of readers, authors, and fun to be had by all... I hope this gives you an idea of what happens at a science fiction convention. We're not all geeks running around talking about Star Trek. No, you'll catch me discussing "My hour with Ben Browder's butt" (err.. Farscape), "My hour with Michael Shanks and Ben Browder" (err.. Stargate SG-1), "My hour with...." well, you get the idea. :)

And.... just in time .... lots of pretties.... Here are some nice people and their costumes. Oh, and some photos from a late night astronomy session which I forgot to attend, but got a nice look at the double star in the big dipper and jupiter with some of its moons.




This is Alanna (I think I have her name right). We were neighbors in the dealer's room a few years back, and she's a super nice lady.



This is another very nice lady whose name I missed and a nice gentleman by the name of Steven, I believe, who I've seen at several conventions but never really met.



This is Brian, from our local SF club. Doesn't he cut a dashing figure? Don't ask him about his rapier.



These pictures are of my friend Edward. He's an awesome writer and very nice to boot. The last picture was taken of him in his "pimp hat" which is a staple and a favorite at conventions.



I'm afraid I don't know who this gentleman is, but he was in the masquerade, and he made this costume himself.



These pictures were taken at the late night astronomy session. Just a couple pictures of the twinklies off the parking ramp of the city lights, and of Steve contemplating the twinklies.

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