sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-07-11 11:48 pm

You skipped my queues and my lines

I got to Readercon and Fiona Maeve Geist greeted me with a copy of the Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine in the Time of Nazis (2015), so nothing about this weekend can be all bad.

Actually my first panel was a lot of fun; we discussed all kinds of ambiguity in horror, from vagueness to liminality to dislocation, and only in the last thirty seconds clarified the idea of horror as a genre of concealment and revelation, which I would like someone who isn't me to write about. Afterward I hung out with [personal profile] rushthatspeaks, [personal profile] handful_ofdust, and [personal profile] ashnistrike, talking Indonesian horror and Canadian politics. I may or may not spend tomorrow on either side of my reading literally in bed; it seems that I am not just in pain, I am in fact sick. Immune system, this is not what I asked you to do. We'll see how much sleep I can get tonight. At least I have central air on my side.

My phone remains a flip phone, profoundly not designed for photography; you point it faceward and hope for the best. I decided I liked this attempt despite the blur.



After the fact it occured to me that I might be less blurry with better lighting. I am more often photographed with my hair loose than braided, but that's what it looks like at the end of a day.



I hope there are copies of my collection in the dealer's room. Three people have asked me so far. That's nice. It makes me feel less like my book is over.