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Conventions are great fun!

Del Rey Books editor-extraordinaire Chris Schluep has supplied Suvudu with a diary of sorts cataloging some of his adventures at last weekend’s World Fantasy Con.

Want to know how an editor spends some of his time?

Below is his account! Enjoy!

Greetings from San Jose!

World Fantasy 2009 is now in the books, and I am leaving, tired and slightly humbled by other people’s energy, but with spirits high. What a great time! After a several-year hiatus, I found that little has changed on the World Fantasy front (other than the host city). There were still lots of writers, editors, and agents on hand. There were fans and pros. There were seemingly endless conversations, meetings, parties, drinks, ad hoc meetings at parties, meals, meetings over meals, and more drinks. To be honest, I feel like the weekend lasted about a week and a half.

I flew into San Francisco on Friday afternoon, where I met my friend and fellow editor Fleetwood Robbins. We had decided to take CALTRAIN down to San Jose together. But first, there was time for the initial Mexican meal of the weekend. I have included documentation.

Welcome to California!

After carnitas, a short train ride, and an even shorter cab ride, we got to the Fairmont hotel. Almost immediately, we began to see old friends. We spent the afternoon catching up, and then a dozen or so of us headed out to find dinner. we ended up sitting outside, enjoying a pleasant evening, and eating Moroccan food. I have included a picture I took from the evening.

Authors and editors frequently become good friends. Both know that the professional relationship may not last forever—either can change publishing houses—but I’ve learned never to say a final goodbye, because the winds of change can bring people back together just as easily as it parted them. So has it been with me and Elizabeth Moon, whose Paksenarrion series (The Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold) I edited at Baen Books lo these many moons ago.

These days Elizabeth is a Del Rey author, and recently she spent several days in Brooklyn with my husband and me. Elizabeth lives in a small town in central Texas, so New York was one big chocolate box to her. When she wasn’t running around the city, we talked. Aside from fine-tuning her new novel, which returns readers to the Paksenarrion universe (Oath of Fealty, coming next March), we discussed, and certainly not in this order: baking bread, Greek food, adoption, the New York subway system, attack squirrels, prairie management, restoring old houses, and visions from God.

And horses! Lots about horses! Take a look at this quick flick in which she tells us a bit about her own horse, Mac, and some of the horses that will appear in Oath of Fealty.