Booked!

I've booked a flight. After Travelocity screwed with me the same way Orbitz and Priceline did, I gave up on travel sites altogether. I just went with Southwest. Maybe it wasn't the best possible deal ever, but Southwest prides itself on offering cheap flights, so I can't have gone too wrong by going with them. Would it have gotten cheaper if I waited until the last minute? Maybe, but I didn't want to take the chance.

So I'm flying out on Friday. Which means I need to find a place to stay for one night. It'll at least mean I should be rested on Saturday instead of being awake since 3am Eastern on Saturday. This gives me an extra day to acclimate, and extra time for flights to be delayed. It also means I get to lug luggage around more than I wanted to. Oh well. Pack light!

Reading the Clarion Writers

I wish we knew which order the writers were going to be at Clarion. Is it the order they're listed on the site? Maybe. It would help me prioritize my reading if I knew for sure.

The writers are: Gregory Frost, Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Joy Fowler, Cory Doctorow, Ellen Kushner, and Delia Sherman.

I'm most read up on Doctorow, Kushner, and Sherman. I'm trying to get up to speed on everyone. There should be an anthology with short stories from all of them!

I'm reading what I can from the library and from what I already have on hand. I may stop at a bookstore to pick up a few more, but I don't want to be lugging a bunch of books to California. So my plan is to buy most of them there, and then perhaps ship them back here. Especially if I've somehow acquired waaaaay too many books. Which is not outside the realm of possibility.

So far the one book I'm pretty sure I'm bringing to California is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. Not so much because Cory Doctorow co-wrote it (though that helps!), as because it's a good reference.