I posted this discussion as members-only a month ago and got no replies, so I guess I'll try it publicly.
Feels like it's time to start talking about this, yeah? Travel plans are being made, events organized, liver-stamina bolstered, lingerie purchased. Got my hotel booked, within walking distance of the convention center. As with the past several years, I'm not attending the conference proper, just all the offsite hangs. It's an excuse for me to vacation with my litmates. So what's the haps? What are you looking forward to?
I'll wait to have a look at the listed offsite events on the AWP site a little closer to the date. Currently I'm excited about our podcast-versus-press dodgeball game (I just hope I'm not picked last). The other must-attend events I'm aware of at the moment are the Broken River one, the Bizarro one, and there's a Menacing Hedge dinner-party reading on Friday.
See you there?
I'm waiting for Obama to make it free along with E3 and Comic-Con.
Seriously though, I've thought about going to AWP but I'm unclear as to what you do besides pick up swag and talk to people. Is that basically it? (Not that that couldn't be reason enough.)
Gord! I used to go to wordstock instead of awp for the same reasons, as well as attending classes, but now that wordstock is defunct maybe I need to shift my gaze. So many of my favorite people/writers in one place...
Not this year though. Too many other trips already in the works.
I'm with ya on L.A. being a wallet-raper. I'm hoping I can crash with a local.
I'll be around there somewhere (and I have an offsite reading!). Maybe I'll get to one of the events you mentioned.
I gotta say, Gordon, seeing that first photo keeps tripping me out: "Is THAT what the back of my head looks like?!"
Looks like a good time. I really want to make it one of these years. Probably not L.A.
I enjoyed coming by the booth. I've posted a few times about it (on social media) that you guys were one of the few reprieves for genre writers. You guys and Eraserhead Press/Lazy Fascist's booth.
Justin - too funny. I went to the Noir panel and it was the last panel of the conference, on the sub street level floor, waaaaaaaay over in a completely different wing from all the other panels. Now, I'm not saying they did that on PURPOSE, but it was a pretty hilarious illustration of how the entire conference felt for genre folks.