While most of us are girding ourselves for family and turkey, the folks in Timonium, Maryland are getting ready for Darkover Grand Council XXX with guests like C.S. Friedman, Esther Friesner (has anyone other than me read her incredibly creepy Pslams of Herod and Sword of Mary?), Tamora Pierce and Jacqueline Carey. Also on the schedule: music, an art show, a range of religious and spiritual programming and a Regency ball. If anyone manages to get down there, please let us know how it was.