Orycon was excellent, one of the best in recent memory. I car pooled down with
dbara The new hotel is an improvement. This was the first year I had a table in the dealer room there. For years I've simply thrown books on Lady Jayne's table (and thank you, thank you, Jane, for all the times you've done that for me!) It was a slow first day (although I only did biz from about 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Then to the Endeavor Awards, where Ken Scholes' collection Long Walks, Last Flights was a finalist. The winner was David Levine for Space Magic. Congrats, David!
A better day in the Orycon dealer room on Saturday. Not just in sales, but due to some exciting possibilities. Might tell y'all about it sometime. :) Sunday, the biz in the delaer room was rocking. It's kind of cemented my decision to deal there again next year.
I closed up the table a half hour early and zipped over with
davebara to Powell's Books in Beaverton for a mass SF signing. I was thinking of just driving home, but saw that Barb & JC Hendee were among the 20 writers there, so off I went to surprise them. (Although Barb said she predicted I'd be there.)
We went to eat afterward and throughout dinner I started to droop. It's amazing how fast it hit, but in the parking lot afterward, heading to my car, I got a bad case of chills. My head and throat were already hurting. Dave and I made the 2 1/2 hour trek home, and by then I was full blown sick.
So I'm home from work and in bed today. Just crawled out of bed a while ago to do a few things. We'll see how it goes.