Got some autographs from @scalzi at #FanFusion last weekend
Went to a couple of panels he was on in order to discover some new authors and picked up several books at the booths
Scalzi was entertaining but was also good at actively passing the mic rather than just waiting for the other authors to pipe up
Thanks to @lilithsaintcrow 's Fediverse posts about the industry for getting me to go look for some new authors
@reay @lilithsaintcrow @scalzi I started reading Calculating Stars from Mary Robinette Kowal[0]
The beginning is, um, explosive :)
Heather Fawcett[1] says she writes about dragons, but got me with mischievous penguins
also books from Jo Schneider and Becca Lee Gardner[2]
The latter is a multi-author series
Tobi Ogundiran sold out, but I downloaded the story Levar Burton read, "The Lady of the Yellow Painted Library"
Don't listen to it alone late at night like I did :)[3]
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@reay @lilithsaintcrow @scalzi [0] John mentioned that he is not and never was a 16 year old girl, so thanked Mary, his wife and lots of other women for helping him work out Zoe's World, which happens to be the last book of his I'd picked up and read and the second in the Old Man's War series for me. I picked up another OMW book at the fest
[1] She was also on both the author panels I attended and said she doesn't mean to have dragons in every book, but they show up anyway
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@reay @lilithsaintcrow @scalzi [2] Some other authors, but the books aren't available right now
[3] He mentioned having a story about a librarian's ghost haunting someone for an overdue book[4]. The audience and panel applauded enthusiastically. The panel looked jealous they hadn't written it
[4] It's much more than that simple explanation. Listening to it on headphones while doing yardwork after midnight was less than optimal planning on my part ...
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der.hans
Reay