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Had a lovely night last night chatting people up at WisCon. Went out to eat and had a few drinks with Clarion homegirls Tenea Johnson and Rebecca Rowe and had some great conversation about the boundaries of sci-fi, fantasy, slipstream, China Mieville, Octavia Butler, genetics, babies, foreign wars, European football, and probably a lot else. Gosh, I love our Clarion crew.

On to the party suites where we got to talk to superwoman Nina Kiriki Hoffman, our Clarion instructor from week one, for a nice spell. I spent a good long time talking with bud John Joseph Adams of F&SF fame, mostly about his new anthology Wastelands which is slated to come out in February 2008. It’s fascinating to learn about the publishing side of things and all the work JJA went through to secure the reprint rights and get the anthology sold. Good on him!

This afternoon I’m heading back over the convention in just a little bit. Editor Stephen Segal invited me to sit awhile at the Prime Books table and sign some copies of Weird Tales #344 for the legions of adoring fans.

More updates as they happen…

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