"The Year is Half Over: What I Should Have Read" is a traditional panel at ArmadilloCon, where a bunch of avid and discriminating readers recommend recent must-read books in the science fiction / fantasy...McMullen: Time Engine Steve Erickson: Toll The Hounds In addition to all this, Willie mentioned "Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse" by Victor Gischler . I'm not sure which category it falls into.

This is a little morality tale about how you never know which seemingly insignificant thing that's happening in the present will turn out to be meaningful somewhere way up there in the future. At Readercon...would ever know it wasn't mint. This point seems to me the very least remarkable one about our story, which I pass on as an oddity whose meaning remains obscure. Though it does seem to have one.

The writers' workshop started with advice panels on writing. Some of the advice the pros gave was debunking common writing myths , so in a way it was metaadvice. Sheila Williams , the editor guest of...writer should suck as hard as he/she can. :-) The whole article can be found in my web site . The pictures from the writing workshop and the rest of ArmadilloCon 2008 can be found on my web site

High Mistress Sheila Williams from the other side says hello. And she also said to read a real magazine.

Mistress Sheila Williams from the other side says hello. And she also says to read a real magazine.