L’s DisCon III Schedule

I am currently scarce and battling burnout (my body let me know before I knew) but hope to be recovered in time for some festivities next month! I will be live and in color at this year’s WorldCon in DC from December 15-20. I will also be in a mask (and probably in my room/elsewhere…

L’s 2021 Eligibility Post

It's that time of year again! Was 2021 somehow more absurd than 2020 for anyone else? I've had new, good things: two Hugo nominations, ran my first Nebula Conference and didn't break anything or get fired, started working with Lambda Literary, adopted two extremely photogenic kittens, started on my Electric Mayhem sleeve... But also I…

FIYAHCON 2021 Retrospective

Hi everyone! Long time no post. Now that FIYAHCON is—for the most part—behind me, it's time to revisit where exactly all those months of my life went. Let's look at some numbers: 1072 total registrations / 956 active attendees83 total programming items (including Aquarium Calm Rooms)22 booths / 2316 booth visitsFunding in ticket sales: $20,720Funding…

An Extremely Brief Eligibility Post

In 2020, the year that was actually twelve years, I published.... basically nothing. I wrote plenty, mostly novels and panicked screeds on Twitter, but not much in the way of award nominateyness. I created FIYAHCON with Brent Lambert, which was probably responsible in equal parts for Twitter screeds and my lack of writing output. And…

A FIYAHCON Retrospective

FIYAHCON has come and gone for most, but I’m still plugging away, getting videos uploaded to the archives and sending our payments and the remaining Ignyte Award trophies out to finalists. I can’t wait to get my dining room table back. This started out as a mission, as most things do. It was sort of…