It’s hard to believe, but Readercon is only a few days away. I will be getting up at the buttcrack of dawn on Friday to drive to Toronto, where I will meet up with Simon Strantzas, pack our stuff in his car, and then head off to pick up Richard Gavin. Then we make for the border and do our best not to get strip-searched. My wife is very worried about me at the U.S. border. I have promised not to tell the officials that I am a horror writer, or in general be a smart ass. I think this is a wise choice. I’m all for adventures on our trip south, but I don’t think I want to spend my time detained without council.
I am not a panel person, but there is one on short horror fiction that should be amusing if not informative, so I will be there for that one. Other than that I plan to wander around socializing, putting faces to names and internet handles. I’m hoping to meet up with Liz Hand, Adrienne Jones, Paul Tremblay, Laird Barron, Kurt Dinan, and a slew of others.
I will be participating in one event of a sort, an ad hoc signing of Bound for Evil that I believe is happening because of an unexpected coincidence that the editor, Tom English, and some of the contributors, myself, Simon Strantzas, and Orrin Grey, all happen to be attending the con. Lucky us, and lucky you if you happen to own a copy of the book and want it signed.
So if you’re in the Massachusetts area, come on out and say hello. It’s going to be a blast.
