{"id":491,"date":"2010-09-04T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=491"},"modified":"2010-09-04T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T12:33:17","slug":"dragoncon-success-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/dragoncon-success-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon*Con Success on Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set a modest goal for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\">Dragon*Con<\/a> this year: to buy and have signed two specific books. I achieved that goal yesterday, so the rest of the con will entail working at Jim Minz&#8217;s behest at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen<\/a> road show, attending whatever-the-heck-I-want, and making some progress on the short story I&#8217;m writing.<\/p>\n<p>The books I came in pursuit of were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Shades of Milk and Honey<\/em>, the first novel by Mary Robinette Kowal, one of my writing friends from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codexwriters.com\/\">Codex writers group<\/a> who also happens to be the winner of the John W. Campbell Award for the Best New Writer of science fiction and fantasy, and the current VP of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/\">Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America<\/a> &#8230; I was determined to buy it here because all the copies sold out too quickly for me to get one at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reconstructionsf.org\/\">NASFiC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Moonbase Crisis<\/em>, the first volume of Rebecca Moesta &#038; Kevin J. Anderson&#8217;s <em>Star Challengers<\/em> middle-grade SF series, which I talked up to whomever I could when I was still involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncai.ncsu.edu\/\">NC Aerospace Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nBoth are now signed and safely stowed in the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether I buy anything else here &#8230; the expression &#8220;kid with a credit card in a candy store&#8221; doesn&#8217;t begin to cover it.<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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