Darkest Suburbia...and Beyond!

And so another OryCon passes into legend.

From my perspective, things went very well indeed. Got to read a chunk of "Dances With Coyotes". which appeared to have moved several copies of Fantastic Companions (thank you, Lady Jayne!). Did a number of other panels -- more than usual, thanks to all the writers off at WFC; two that went particularly well, I thought, were a small group session on flash fiction (in cooperation with the perennially erudite snarke) and a panel on the hows and whys of critiquing.

The souvenir book and pocket program, both DTPed by yours truly, seemed to be well-received; there were a couple of scattered reports of pocket programs with duplicated signatures, but I never actually saw one, and so the glitch seems to have been isolated.

Then there was filk programming; I suspect I'm going to miss some credits here -- I think there are more Oryfilkers on LJ than I'm immediately aware of -- so bear with me. As music GoH, filkertom was a showstopper (well, actually, a showstarter, but you know what I mean) and in any case a great hit -- if I hadn't already been convinced I'm going to need to acquire the second "24-Hour Project" album, the couple of numbers from it at the Smith-concert convinced me all over again. Also particularly memorable were cflute (correctly observing that it takes four or five people to even attempt to replace a Cat [aka catsittingstill), vixyish (darnit, I still say Mal's Song should have won its category, especially now that I've actually heard it live -- and yes, I'll send along the Peabody filks), and tfabris, who had somehow previously sneaked in under my radar but is clearly too talented not to lure back. I did, in fact, write a minor filk during the Friday night circle, and -- with due blame credit to cadhla for the inspiration -- debuted a lyric recently insta-ed in her LJ in one of the circles.

Then, after all was over, I came home and slept a lot....

Busy busy busy....

Leaving in a few minutes for OryCon, where I am actually pretty heavily scheduled this year (no doubt due to WFC drawing off a lot of potential guests). You can find me on:

Friday 2 pm -- Introduction to Filk (Eugene)
Friday 6 pm -- Reading, "Dances With Coyotes" (Salon C)

Saturday 10 am -- Flash Fiction (Salon F/T1)
Saturday noon -- Writing for YA & Bringing in New Readers (Portland)
Saturday 1 pm -- Electronic Fanzines & Other Time Sinks (Salon F/T3)

Sunday 11 am -- Critiquing Writing: Why & How (Salon B)

And of course at open filking....

Fortunately, so far people seem pleased with the Souvenir Book and Pocket Program, my major contributions as part of the concom this year.