Friendly plane travel

[mrissa]

There will probably be a series of random-ish entries as things occur to me and I have five minutes to sit down and write them. My cousin and her husband and kiddo have been in town all weekend, and they're leaving today. I will get to see them -- briefly at least -- on their way out.

I am mightily amused at the phone conversation we had, though, because Kari asked me if I'd had a good conference, and when I said I had, she said, "Great! Well, we'll have to hear -- uh -- a little more about it when we see you." I'm pretty sure this was an on-the-spot editing of "we'll have to hear all about it." I could hear the proofreaders' marks in her voice. Because they don't want to hear all about it, and frankly neither do you, because, "And so-and-so's room party was serving brownies and champagne and X and Y liked my boots and and and," is rather tedious. And I do know it. That's not the kind of con report I mean to write.

A quick story most of you at the con already heard, though, because I was putting the provoking volume away and I am still amused at myself:

I was getting on the plane from DFW to Austin on Thursday morning, and I was carrying the book I was reading so that the cover faced out. And so many people were smiling at me! I was getting such happy looks! And inside my head I was doing a little groovy happy dance: goin' to the con, goin' to the con, everybody's goin' to the con! So many fantasy lovers! Goin' to the con! Then I sat down to read the book I was carrying: Geoff Ryman's Lust. Which has a zucchini and two cherry tomatoes strategically placed next to the word LUST on the cover.

So possibly not so many fantasy lovers as I thought. Or at least a different kind.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That would definitely be one of those covers designed to actively put off a large portion of the potential readership for the actual book. *sigh*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, well. I probably wouldn't have read it if I hadn't read other Geoff Ryman stuff first. From my perspective it was not at all erotic but was endearingly geeky -- I suspect that people who went, "Ooh, lust!" would not get what they were looking for.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I thought it was really quite impressive to have that much sex in a book and keep it so unerotic, particularly given the sort of premise that makes one think of the lower ends of alt.sex.stories.*

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Dan Simmons used to be able to do that, before his brain was eaten.

[gwynnega]

Hee. I have that book (haven't read it yet) and never even noticed the cover art!

[aimeempayne.livejournal.com]

You did indeed have some very cool boots. I'm sorry that I didn't have a chance to say hi.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I didn't see you -- or rather I didn't recognize you if I saw you -- or I would have said hi.

[aimeempayne.livejournal.com]

I saw you, but you seemed like you were on your way somewhere and I figured I'd have a chance to catch you later, then the weekend sped up and was over before I knew it. ;)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Cons are like that. I was sure I'd get to converse with zellandyne and 1crowdedhour and at least half a dozen other folks more than I did, just among the people I actually saw.