So I’m up in Santa Clara at BayCon with my husband. We come every year; I used to live in this area before I got married, I’ve been to every BayCon and worked the first twenty-some of them. It’s a cool con and I get to see friends I don’t see anywhere else, which is always great.
I was particularly looking forward to this year, though, because Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon are co-Writer Guests of Honor. I’ve liked their work for twenty-some years, and though I don’t fanatically grab every single thing they publish nowadays the way I used to, they’ve still produced some of my favorite fantasy and urban fantasy books and stories. Misty Lackey and Charles De Lint are the reasons I like and write urban fantasy, in fact. I even brought a book with me — a hardcover copy of Black Gryphon — to get autographed, and I hardly ever do that.
Well, we just found out at dinner that Misty and Larry aren’t actually here. 🙁 Misty has the flu, so they couldn’t come after all. Massive suckage. The Fan GOH already couldn’t make it, so we’re down to the Toastmaster and the Artist GOH. [laugh/flail] Talk about bad luck! And of course it’d have to be one of my favorite writers who gets sick just when I was all jazzed up to meet her.
I’m sure I’ll still have a great time, just because I always do, but… crud. :/
Angie
