I survived Lunacon, even if it meant moderating four panels officially, teaching a class on using acting technique to improve your fiction writing, participating in the Broad Universe reading, doing a signing and ending up moderating one panel by accident. Additionally, I survived several parties, hugs from strangers, a presence in the dealer’s room and a weird 3am phone call from the hotel staff that somehow thought I was con staff and asked me to deal with a noise problem on the other side of the hotel (I said no and got cranky with the front desk in the morning). The whole thing was pleasing, even if I am entirely exhausted now.

Highlights include getting to moderate two panels with the fabulous Jacqueline Carey, listening to the wonderful Ellen Kushner read from The Privilege of the Sword, and chatting happily with the guy who makes fresh bread in his room through numerous East Coast cons (I am charmed by this, despite being unable to consume gluten myself).

I saw many friends, old and new, didn’t spend hoards of money despite the presence of Robert Quill, who I commissioned to draw a lovely piece of me at last year’s Lunacon.

Anyone else go? Have fun? Have a comment on the utter lack of hall costumes or the smallness of the Masquerade (which at least included a lot of great/clever pieces)?

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