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• mikecotton commented on Where's Charlie?
  I discovered Mary Robinette Kowal when I saw her read at Writers with Drinks a few years ago. She read a haunting short that has stuck with me, and then took off one of her black knee-boots, put it on her hand and used it to give a puppetry demo. It was awesome. Catch her reading if at all possible....
• scott-sanford commented on Where's Charlie?
  So the moral is that we should pour alcohol into authors? I can live with that....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Where's Charlie?
  Well, I had a 20+ year gap in going to cons - finally made EasterCon last year, will be at WC Docklands in 2014 ......[MIGHT make NovaCon?] But all this travelling can't be cheap. I'm treading on delicate ground here ... but who pays for this - I assume some of it, Charlie pays for, & some of it comes out of publishers' promotional budgets? Where he isn't a GOH, of course! Please do tell .......
• Charlie Stross commented on Where's Charlie?
  I'm a business; I pencil it in under marketing and sales. (When I'm a GoH, the convention pays. You will note that of the four up-coming conventions, I'm a GoH at three of them. The fourth just happens to be my usual annual recurring venue for doing lunch with my editors and agent, who all live relatively nearby, to discuss business.)...
• andrei.tuch commented on Where's Charlie?
  Offtopic to the post at hand, but: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121383-See-the-First-Image-of-a-Giant-Squid-2-000-Feet-Underwater How do BLUE HADES feel about this invasion of privacy?...