DWJ

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Okay, Venice was terrific, but the Diana Wynne Jones Conference was sublime.

It's hard to summarize three days of non-stop intellectual stimulation, book-talk, meeting of friends, and general Good Times^TM. The papers were wide-ranging and of very high quality. For me, there was added delight in the fact that long-time and very dear LJ friends like owlfish, gillo and of course lady_schrapnell and steepholm were there. I got to meet the latter two in person for the first time, which was thoroughly delightful. I also got to meet newer friends like heleninwales and emmaco, and made new friends as well.

Oh, and I think my paper went pretty well :-)

My Penzance hotel internet access is about to expire, so more later...

Comments

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Charlie, Edward and Farah sat down on Sunday and did preliminary planning for a proceedings, though of course nothing is certain at this point! But everyone seems to want one very much, and they're definitely working on it. (Well, Charlie's here in Lampeter at another con and F&E will re-emerge after WorldCon, but the process is started already!)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I'll watch out for further information appearing in due course.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Yay :-)