Bristolcon: Interactions
Oct. 25th, 2014 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI then went to the interactions session — one of the sessions where I didn't really take notes — but I'm going to mention it because it was such good fun. The panel — Claire M Hutt, Peter Newman, John Baverstock, David Gullen, and Jaine Fenn — talked about convention experiences and how to interact with writers. In the Q&A afterwards, someone mentioned that it sometimes felt hard to go up and talk to groups of writers in the bar. The panelists agreed that this was actually OK — Jaine Fenn & David Gullen agreed that you could do a lot worse than offer to buy them a drink! — while Peter Newman said that he though a lot of writers would actually enjoy being fanboyed by someone in front of their colleagues — "Excuse me for a moment George..."
Inspired enough to get over my chronic shyness, I went up after the panel and rather incoherently fanboyed the Newmans, both of whom were nice as pie — I'm such a fan of Tea and Jeopardy that it was almost responsible for me missing my train to Coventry last week — and enthused about Peter's reading — his debut novel is out next year and on the strength of the first chapter, I'm definitely adding it to my to-read list. It also encouraged me to go and get my book signed by Jaine Fenn later in the afternoon — when I discovered that the session had been John Baverstock's first time as moderator, not that you'd have known from extremely smooth way he led the discussion.
Inspired enough to get over my chronic shyness, I went up after the panel and rather incoherently fanboyed the Newmans, both of whom were nice as pie — I'm such a fan of Tea and Jeopardy that it was almost responsible for me missing my train to Coventry last week — and enthused about Peter's reading — his debut novel is out next year and on the strength of the first chapter, I'm definitely adding it to my to-read list. It also encouraged me to go and get my book signed by Jaine Fenn later in the afternoon — when I discovered that the session had been John Baverstock's first time as moderator, not that you'd have known from extremely smooth way he led the discussion.
