The participant packets were ready, and mine was OK, except my name tent says "Karen Newton" (one of 6,852 in the US alone*) and not "Karen Wester Newton" (to my knowledge, the only one in the world). I may draw myself a new name tent before tomorrow night's panel. My schedule checked out fine; no last minute changes.
We spent some time walking around the old city, and then went to lunch with
After lunch I was on my first Worldcon panel: Ebooks from the reader and writer's perspective. We had pretty good turnout and some very good questions from an interested audience. It was long! An hour and a half is a long time for three panelists to talk.
We hit the dealer's room after the panel, then raced through a sudden rain storm to get back to the hotel for "free drinks" in the hotel bar. After that we went to a panel on "the long tail" with Gary K. Wolf and
And then we staggered home. Worldcons are fun.
* I made that number up.