After a couple months of dithering, I have finally officially registered and paid up to attend this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York. As this convention is more geared toward professionals than newbies, I doubt there will be much on how to get published or changes to meet agents in pitch sessions or anything like that. Instead there will be panels on different literary topics, lots of published authors and publishing professionals around and books galore. At least that’s what I think it will be like. The theme this year is ghosts, which isn’t that relevant to my work, but perhaps I will be inspired to write something. I’ve gotten ideas from stranger places. 🙂 I’m hoping to enjoy the atmosphere, meet interesting people and talk about books.

I’m still waiting to hear that my hotel reservations will be confirmed, but hopefully they will call me soon. I put my credit card number in and everything, so if I don’t get word soon, I’ll have to call them, which will not make me happy.

I signed up to go to the awards banquet and have added almost all the nominees to my booksfree.com list. It will take some work to read them all before the convention, but I’d like to at least be informed about one category. I’ll probably have to buy some of them, since booksfree isn’t really good at sending me books in the exact order I want to read them. But that’s ok. They’ve all been nominated, so they should be really good, right? I might do a post on my pre-read impressions and then maybe follow-up with post read impressions. Definitely be on the look-out for a post or two about my experiences at the WFC.