Everything Good Must Come to an End – The Baltimore Bookfest Edition
It’s over.
I was glad I decided to come down to the Inner Harbor on Saturday to meet some of my colleagues in SFWA. I was able to catch the last 15 minutes or so of the Black Sci Fi panel before attending the “Second Breakfast to Snozzberries” panel all about food.
My apologies to Fran Wilde for a slight derailment of the panel due to a discussion of casu marzu. The resultant explanations of how the Sardinian cheese is made and eaten was hilarious.
I got to speak with Sam J. Miller, and was surprised when he remembered a story I’d sent him more than a year ago. On Sunday, while on the Short Stories panel, he referenced my story again, and said every rejection like that is a little bit of pain an editor carries with them.
I was floored by his kind words, and if that had been the only panel I’d been scheduled to attend, I’d have gone home happy.
However I went on to moderate two panels after that.
In any case, this is one of the reasons I love this community–we do strive to be encouraging to each other, and I thank Sam for his kind words.
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