Back from Conversion XXII plus extended holiday in which we visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Heritage Park and the Calgary Zoo. David will have pictures up before long. In the meantime, the breathless summary will have to do: stayed with Edge Publisher Brian Hades and his wife Anita who made us feel like family; saw a draft of the cover for Righteous Anger when Brian and I met with artist David Willicome; met Richard, the editor for Righteous Anger; had the pleasure of selling a copy of Courtesan Prince and Throne Price to David Weber's wife, Sharon, when she and her celebrated husband (who was guest of honor at the con) stopped by the Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy table in the dealer's room; embarrassed myself by not recognizing R. Scott Bakker prior to the opening ceremonies; listened to my husband, David Lott, and media guest of honour Jeremy Bulloch reminisce about Corona Academy, the acting school in London, England that they both attended; socialized with Edward Willett; signed some Okal Rel Universe books; attended the annual Robyn Meta Herrington BBQ where I met Robyn?s parents and niece (a copy of In Places Between, an annual writing contest held in Robyn?s honor, came with the con bag of goodies) and read the remarkable eulogy she wrote for herself; socialized with writer-friends Rebecca Bradley and Marie Jakober; Robert Sawyer was also at that party; also socialized with IFWA members Randy McCharles and Sandra FitzPatrick, who have placed stories in the ORU anthology; saw and socialized with other friends like Clayton and Tammie, and Allan and Katie, and Karl and Stephanie the intrepid masterminds behind Neo-Opsis magazine (to which I subscribe); pleasantly surprised to find a quote from my review featured on the brochure for Leslie Carmichael's book Lyranel's Song

; oh, and gave away some buggy copies of the Guide to the Okal Rel Universe to people I trusted to pardon the typos in that run, which are entirely mea culpa :-(

On the Anthology front, I met once with Steve Swanson, the artist for the next Okal Rel Universe anthology, and spoke more than once with John Preet, the editor for the same anthology.

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