ComicCon and Readercon are now over, and surprisingly, I still managed to have fun at the latter even with the sad conflict that kept me away from it while working the former.

How is that possible? I had a solution.

Check out the fun I had, as dear friends and colleagues did their best to help me forget I was missing my first Readercon ever.

Rose Fox

Thank you, committee, for providing me with a name badge!

Connie Hirsch

Diane Weinstein

Josh Burson

Robert van der Heide’s back and Josh Burson

Kathleen Ann Goonan

R. B. Wood

Mark Walsh

Steve Dooner

Victoria Jannsen

Leah Peterson

Kathy Morrow and Kathleen Ann Goonan

Resa Nelson

Faye Ringel

John Clute and Elizabeth Hand

Nicholas Kaufmann

Glenn Grant

Michael Dirda

B. Diane Martin

Paul Di Filippo and Paul Witcover

At the Cordwainer Smith Rediscover Award ceremony

Watching over the Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose competition

By now, those of you who’ve never been to a Readercon are probably asking, what’s with all the stickers?

Each year, Readercon holds a Meet the Pros(e) party Friday night, at which guests hand out stickers emblazoned with their favorite sentences, whether from a work in progress or a book they happen to love, and we all trade. It encourages mingling, because it gives even the shy a valid excuse to speak to anyone.

I guess after some people took the sentences I provided on sheets of address labels, they were moved to give me one of theirs. I don’t know who wrote the sentence that was placed over my brain, but it does seem apt, as it sums up my feelings about missing Readercon.

If you took a photo with me there that I’ve yet to see, please send it along. I can’t wait to find out how much further fun I had!