And, back!

[annathepiper]

A longer post is to follow this one, but as it will take me a while to compose it, I'll just say here that this year's Writer's Weekend was absolutely fabulous! High points:

• Getting to meet seimasin face to face, do extensive Great Big Sea geeking and Carbon Leaf geeking, swap brainstorm ideas on both our projects, and last but not least, see her dive headlong into the same fabulous world of dealing with people in the industry that so bowled me over when I attended my first Writer's Weekend last year;
  
• Getting mizkit to sign my copy of her shiny new book and a copy for my boss, not to mention just getting to see Kit in general (and by the way, Kit? You look FABULOUS!);
  
• Meeting casirafics and learning that not only is she local, she's also a GBS and Carbon Leaf fan AND a flute player;
  
• Meeting alg and sitting in with her and all the other great ladies in the Fanfic/Slash reading Saturday night, and having the immense satisfaction of getting loud cheers when I started reading a scene from my Virtuosity fanfic sequel (and also, by the way, alg can write!);
  
• Seeing dr_pretentious again and swapping extensive storygeeking with her;
  
• Lots of wonderful conversation with many folks whose names I have not successfully retained, but who nevertheless greatly impressed me with their own story ideas and their various passions, including the woman I parrot-geeked with this morning before lunch;
  
• Getting a fabulous new messenger bag as a souvenir of the conference, a bag which I will in fact likely be using now on a daily basis because it's incredibly cool;
  
• Last, but not least, pitching Faerie Blood to two, count 'em, TWO agents and having both of them ask me to send them partials to see if they'd be interested enough in my work to represent me just in case Luna says yes!

Huge, huge thank-yous go out to writersweekend for organizing yet another fabulous conference, and I am thrilled that it turned out to be such a great experience for seimasin as well. mizkit pulled me in last year; I pulled seimasin in this year, and I feel like I've done my duty in passing the Good Karma.

Karen, you did very, very well. THANK YOU! (And can I say 'fabulous' enough?)

P.S. Big hellos go out to casirafics, now joining my Friends list, as well as fenton, who I see picked me up over the weekend! Also, anyone else who happens to come in courtesy of Writer's Weekend this year as well, pre-emptive hellos to you! :)