Comments on: Because Scalzi made us do it

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:01:54 +0000

*Sorry be patient not me patient

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:00:58 +0000

Yeah I’m not so in to being a stalker. I can me patient…mostly.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Although, it’s nicer to go to actual signings and such.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:39:12 +0000

Ellie, well, if you’re willing to take the label of “Stalker” and if the con is laid out the same as last year, there’s a lot of walking through the lobby that goes on. The lobby is generally open, including the bar, no admission necessary. But you’ll need to have a good picture to go by, and you’ll need to scan the crowd. You’ll just need to have a badge to get into the conference rooms, or the con suite. Other than that it’s a hotel. Lots of people come in. Last year, as I was drinking with Tobias, I saw a couple on their wedding night (or they were WAY over dressed for shopping) checking in.

Just saying.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:39:51 +0000

Ellie: We’d truly love to, but we’ll be way too busy with the con. Don’t worry though I guarantee we’ll be back in the Detroit area doing free stuff before too long.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:23:31 +0000

Since your going to be in the Detroit area anyway can you do some signings or something that won’t cost me 45 bucks to get into? Because I have no money even if it is something totally cool. There’s plenty of bookstores around just pick one, I’ll be there with all my friends.

By: steve buchheit

steve buchheit — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:07:25 +0000

See you there. Also, as a confirmed NE Ohio kid, I’m also kinda of leery of the weather this weekend.

By: ysa

ysa — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:16 +0000

Hiya Justine and Scott! (am posting this here because you posted the con schedule first and because you have fewer comments for me to get lost in.) But anyway, the workshop thingie about “Gluten free fantasy” reminded me of this fantastic article by Poul Anderson called “Thud and Blunder” which touches on some of the stuff you mentioned. I read it some years ago, and wanted to see it again but no longer have the tattered photocopy that was passed around my ESL literature class. (Yes, they do have those!) I love Google, by the way. Here is a link to it: http://www.sfwa.org/writing/thud.htm

By: Jeff Beeler

Jeff Beeler — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:31:55 +0000

You might add this:

The Juvenalia Panel is ON!

Its on Saturday at 1 PM in Salon G

Juvenilia: Writers dust off the storage trunks, turn off the shame meter, and read from their 5th- through 12th-grade works of unalloyed proto-genius. A great way for young writers in the audience to feel much better about their own efforts Justine Larbalestier (M), Scott Westerfeld, Merrie Haskell, K. Tempest Bradford and Marcy Italiano

By: emily

emily — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:26:50 +0000

i will pay you TWO MILLION DOLARS to wear that dress and post pictures of it. pretty please?

By: kim

kim — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:21:00 +0000

it looks like it is made of green plastic table cloths, like the disposable ones

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:28:09 +0000

Rebecca: Coincidentally that’s about how much the dress costs . . .

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:25:33 +0000

if you wear that dress, i will give you ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:10:54 +0000

Darn it, Justine, I was going to wear that!

By: kim

kim — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:22:29 +0000

that is so not your type justine!!! just joking!!!!!!!!!! i want proof of you in it.

By: emily

emily — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:54:36 +0000

i am open to that dress, a purple jumpsuit, a gold lame suit, or this: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518AGAS8EHL._AA240_.jpg. i do require pictures, though. and now i want more sequins . . .

also, when are you going to do an event in ny? and please announce it here, so i can find out!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:04:38 +0000

You’d better not be joking about that dress. If I don’t see photographic evidence of you wearing it, I’m going to be very disappointed. Also, wheat sucks. That’s right, I said it.

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:47:50 +0000

I would kill (figuratively speaking) to be there! But, sadly, I am in Phoenix, Arizona and have no killing license (figurative or otherwise), so I will be missing it. *sadness*

You must be sure to go about having a really marvelous time for the sake of all us would-be-attendees who can’t get in on it.

~Mary

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:57:59 +0000

Patrick: Don’t be silly! Tracky dacks on the plane; posh frocks are for when you land.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:44:46 +0000

that’s going to be a challenge to wear on the plane. not that i am speaking from experience or anything. no. none.

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:09:56 +0000

Patrick: It’s cool. I checked. Scalzi’s going with sequins.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:59:48 +0000

have you confirmed that’s not what scalzi is going to wear?

i’m just saying… it’d be embarassing if both you and john wore the same dress.

By: adrienne vrettos

adrienne vrettos — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:41:02 +0000

va va va voom! you must buy that dress!

By: dragonfly

dragonfly — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:21:32 +0000

(and what’s with caps being allowed again? it just seems wrong!)

By: dragonfly

dragonfly — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:20:36 +0000

ack! in another life i lived in michigan. for awhile i even lived in a detroit suburb! but now, when cool people are going to be there, i’m in germany. *sigh*

have buckets of fun!!