The World Fantasy thing is coming together. There’ll be a HUGE Aussie Bash party on the Thursday evening. If you’re at the convention in Saratoga, it’s on at 9pm and you must come. It’ll be fun, there’ll be FREE booze, and lots of good folk to talk to. If the party is half as good as the Madison party, it will be awesome. I can now also announce my one panel appearance for the convention. It is:
SATURDAY, 4 PM. City Center C
Survey of the Field: 2006.
Charles N. Brown, Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Stephen Jones, Jonathan Strahan (m)
I have no idea how I ended up moderating this puppy, but there you go. I imagine Ellen and Stephen will want to talk horror, Paula will want to talk paranormal romance, and CHARLES will want to talk about 2007. And me? Well, I’m moderator, so I guess I get to push them around and try not to dominate things too much. It should be fun. Where else will I be during WFC? Well, apart from meal times, I guess around the dealer’s room, and hanging out. If you want to say hi or catch up, please come up and say hi. I’ll even wear the badge so you know who I am, and I hateses the badges. Actually, come to the Aussie bash and say hi, and then we can chat over the weekend. Saratoga should be fun.
Dude, I am SO there Thursday night.
Cool! We’ll save a drink for you.
Not just any old booze, either. The Aussie Bash will feature many very fine Australian wines, I’ve just run the tentative list past Jonathan, Trevor and Deb and got the thumbs up. Amazing the range and quality of Australian wine you can now buy just about anywhere in the USA. I don’t mean just the usual suspects, either, there’s stuff available close to Saratoga that would be hard to find in Sydney.
Absolutely true. The wine will be good Australian stuff, and the party should be terrific. We don’t need Akubra’s, though. Do we?
Ha, no! Just any old hat with corks hanging off it should do.
Yum. I’ll be there!!
Fine Australian Wines = is there any other? It’s about all my wife and I drink.