ConFusion Highlights
-Being invited to be Toastmaster for ConFusion 2012. (And quizzing a few friends to find out what the heck the Toastmaster actually does.) Among other things, I get to introduce author GoH Pat Rothfuss and Fan GoH Tom Smith at opening ceremonies. I’ve been going to ConFusion for years, so the invitation … well, it means a lot, and I was both honored and delighted to accept.
-Having my brains eaten by balloon Cthulhu, courtesy of Elder Signs Press.
-Winning $1 from SFWA president John Scalzi by triumphing in the medium-range pen-tossing duel during the mass autograph session.
-I did a lot of panels this weekend, and had a blast. I enjoyed my power trip as moderator, but the most entertaining panel by far was the political correctness panel on Saturday night. Not what I would have predicted, but I laughed more in that hour than I did in any other panel, and I think we had a pretty damn good discussion, too.
-Reading the first chapter of Snow Queen. To everyone who attended the reading … I’m sorry. I had honestly forgotten how rude a cliffhanger that chapter ends on. I hope you enjoyed it, though!
-The people were awesome, as always. Got to spend time with old friends, get to know other people better, and meet some new folks. This is the very definition of conventionwin.
-Coming home to find the on-signing advance for Libriomancer and Enforcer waiting in my mailbox, along with German copies of Mermaid’s Madness. A nice way to wrap up the weekend!
Skennedy
January 24, 2011 @ 10:15 am
It was good to see you there! I wish I could have been there for the reading, but you know how con is, I was lucky to see any panels at all. 😉
Jim C. Hines
January 24, 2011 @ 10:16 am
Thanks, and likewise!
I totally understand. I’ve got a big ol’ list of things I didn’t have time to do, and people I didn’t get enough time to hang out with. Pretty much the same as every other con, ya know? 🙂
Bill Pearson
January 24, 2011 @ 12:28 pm
The cliffhanger is not too bad at the end of the first chapter. Had you stopped at the scene change halfway through that chapter… that would have been torture.
KatG
January 24, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
Any pictures of the pen-throwing duel? Scalzi has one of Patrick Rothfuss nibbling his ear, but that’s just kind of…strange.
Jim C. Hines
January 24, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
Good to know, thank you 🙂
Jim C. Hines
January 24, 2011 @ 1:29 pm
Sadly, no. The pen-throwing duel ended too quickly.
Have you seen the pic of me, Scalzi, and Rothfuss from ConFusion three years ago?
Jer
January 24, 2011 @ 2:55 pm
It was great having you, and we’re really looking forward to next year already! With Pat working the door and you at the mic, it should be a great time! 🙂
Jim C. Hines
January 24, 2011 @ 3:06 pm
Thanks! I’ll do my best to make it entertaining 🙂
Christine Purcell
January 24, 2011 @ 9:54 pm
It was so much fun doing panels with you. Glad you liked the cthulhu balloon hat!
Jim C. Hines
January 25, 2011 @ 7:51 am
I set the Cthulhu balloon on top of our computer desk when I got home. A few hours later, it drifted down as my wife was working. She hadn’t noticed it sitting there, and her reaction was … well, it fit quite nicely with the theme of an elder god descending from the heavens, tentacles reaching out to rip the sanity from your being 🙂