(blushes at the previous posts)
GREAT time at WFC this year! No real pictures that anyone would be interested in, and no real new news. Steve was pretty tired from the book tour, but recovered quickly when his daughter joined him. He's looking forward to getting back to writing - as I'm sure we all are!
One of the highlights for me was the three hour lunch with Caam. I sure wish you could have spent more time at the con!
It was great seeing Mark again as well. He read from his (fantastic!) new book for the writers group at our Saturday night party (which we all finally staggered out of at 2am), and it sounds like he made a lot of great contacts to help launch it even further. It's strange being around someone who is so business savy - that's one part of things that I just can't do. (so I overcompensate by over-doing everything else - heh heh)
I got all the books signed that I took along, and signed bookplates for Jay and Dustin. The only downside is that Steve really doesn't like to do quotes or passages as part of the autograph - so they all just contain the first name of the person they're signed for, and then his signature and date. Sandy - I just dropped yours in the mail today and you should have it in two days (sorry for the delay - I thought I could get it in much sooner, but I didn't get it signed until Sunday - tomes of stories behind THAT three-day delay!).
So - when's a good weekend for "Elohimbrunch 2 - The Search for More Bacon?" Any of the next three weekends should work for me, but the one after that is Thanksgiving weekend (which will probably be hard for everyone). My son has a fencing class near the Springfield Mall on Saturday mornings from 10 - 11am, so if noone else has any time constraints, maybe we could do 1130ish or so on a Saturday morning? Syl - you probably have the harder schedule to cater to. Let us know when you can fit brunch into the watch rotation.
Or lunch or dinner - whatever works for everyone.
And then the ravens pecked out his eyes.