{"id":3332,"date":"2011-07-15T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T18:02:11","slug":"my-readercon-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/15\/my-readercon-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"My Readercon Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

As per usual for me and Readercon, my Readercon experience didn’t begin<\/em> at Readercon. Instead of flying to Boston and bussing it to Burlington, I flew to Providence for a morning with Paul Di Filippo and Deb Newton, which this year also meant some pre-con time with Liz Hand and Michael Dirda. We got a tour of the new Di Filippo\/Newton castle and ate a Chinese\/Thai lunch before heading out mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n

Because programming wasn’t starting until 8:00 p.m., the afternoon and evening was spent in the usual lobby schmoozing followed by a massive dinner for 15 with me and Liz at the heads of the table (though I guess one of us was really the foot) and 13 others between us, including Howard Waldrop, Rose Fox, John Clute, Graham Sleight and many others.<\/p>\n

But then\u2014a quandary. My 9:00 p.m. reading was scheduled against one of the two panels I most wanted to see at the con, “The Influence of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency.” Luckily, there was a solution. I decided my iPhone had a sufficient microphone to record me reading solo, and yielded over my Flip camera to Paul Di Filippo so he could record the Meredith panel. Which meant I could be in two places at once.<\/p>\n

And now, you can also be in two places at once.<\/p>\n

So first, here’s my reading of “Things That Never Happened,” which will be out later this year or early next in an issue of Postscripts<\/em>.<\/p>\n