eviltammy | That was cool! (Reply)

Was on Twitter and Tobias Buckell (SF author) was saying something about the college campus he was on. Well, he's actually at my alma mater, Wofford College - they have a summer writing program for high school students called Shared Worlds, where they write in a shared world (I think - didn't read the whole thing) and Buckell is one of the teachers/presenters. So I said something about it being a nice campus and a good college and joked about stalking him :) and he told me there was a program tonight. He and a couple of the other teacher/presenter/writers were doing a reading for the class and whoever else showed up. So I went.

I've read three of TB's books and enjoyed them. The other two were Jeff Vandemeer, who I had heard of but never read, and Will Hindmarch, who I had never heard of. I picked up a couple of TB's books and one of JV's - Hindmarch has several short stories available on his website. And they each did a reading. Was very cool. JV's upcoming book is fantasy noir and has some fantastic imagery, WH does a lot with gaming and his story was excellent - called Griefer and is on his site. TB read a short story too - very funny. They opened the floor for questions and then JV & TB signed books. So I have autographed copies :) [does that mean I need to kill them now so my copies will be worth big $$?]

And - except maybe the lady from Barnes & Noble who was there selling books - I think I was the oldest person there. Kinda disconcerting.

Was majorly fun.