I started out with attending the last ebook panel; this one focused on specific ebook-only publishers and stressed how ebooks could be good for authors.
I tried to go to a panel on fantasy world-building but George R.R. Martin was on it, so I could not get in the door. Instead I hit the dealer's room and worked on my notes for my afternoon panel.
Next I went to a good reading by
My afternoon panel on "Why are there no cross-genre hard SF stories?" was not in the program guide/grid at the correct time, but we still got a respectable crowd. Moderator Peter Watts is a vastly entertaining and well read writer who kept things moving at a good pace. Hard science fiction author Karl Schroeder offered some scientific insights, and romance author Jo Beverly took more of a human approach than a scientific one. I found the panel fun and entertaining.
After hanging out a bit, my husband, my friend Karen,
And so (to paraphrase Samuel Pepys) to blog and then to bed.