Will Write For Chocolate (and OVFF highlights Part 2)

Will Write For Chocolate has been updated.

Caught up with adminstuff and approved an article galley for Writer's Digest magazine yesterday before finally finishing unpacking from the weekend. I have two illustration jobs due tomorrow, plus I want to get back to my novel writing. To sum up: I'm not going to be able to post a proper report of OVFF this year, sorry. Instead, I'll be posting occasional highlights over the next couple of weeks.

Me, Allison, Taunya, Adam and Jodi.

Besides, there are already a ton of convention reports out there. Rob Wynne is compiling a comprehensive list, for those interested. For an Urban Tapestry perspective, please do check Allison's Livejournal and her OVFF Flickr pics.

And hey, there are even photos of ME in there. :-) I generally don't get pics of me in my own OVFF Flickr set unless they are posed close-ups ('cuz I'm holding the camera out in front of me and another person). Here are a few of my favourite Allison shots:

-- Group pile on the 'girl bed:' Taunya, me, Seanan, Becca, Michelle, Erin.

-- Me stealing some of Jodi's mousse: After the 'Torch Song' segment of the Pegasus concert, Mark Bernstein generously offered participants decadent chocolate mousse. Congrats to Talis Kimberley for winning with her song, X Libris! You can read the lyrics here. Since Talis was unable to attend the convention, Erica Neely did a marvellously sultry performance of the song.

-- My temporary tattoo: Courtesy Beckett Gladney with her tattoo markers.


-- Seanan teaching me a clapping game: One of my con highlights, by the way, was the amazing Seanan McGuire. Though I had heard rumours and seen pics, nothing could adequately prepare me for the massively slimmed-down dynamo that is Seanan. HOLY COW, she looks fantastic. I have huge admiration for Seanan for deciding to do something and then sticking with it.

Her singing and songwriting have also taken off since I first met her years ago. She was a delight to hang out with at OVFF, wherever she went: always enhancing the con atmosphere...and she wasn't even a guest! :-D

Seanan WILL be a guest, however, at Conterpoint 2007 on June 22-24 next year, in Rockville, Maryland. GoH: Wild Mercy, Toastmaster: John Hall, Interfilk Guest: Seanan McGuire. Lordy, I wish I could afford to go to this...with the guest roster, it sounds like it's going to be an amazing convention!

During OVFF, Seanan and I had a schtick going where we would fall into "lovestruck lovers" mode and compete to see who could be the most effective. Seanan creamed me...that woman has an incredible talent for improvisation, and would launch into impassioned flights of poetic fancy that would have me in hysterics within seconds, unable to come up with even a single coherent phrase. I adore Seanan.

:-D

Urban Tapestry's next convention: GAfilk in Atlanta, GA (just over 2 months away!) At this point, it looks like it will be the only out-of-town convention that all three of us will be attending next year. Woohoo, and we're Guests of Honor!

Below: Tanya Huff fending me off. I love Michelle Dockrey's Flickr comment: "Wow. You look like you were drawn by Shel Silverstein. :)" Allison took this photo.



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