Well, Continuum 5 has wound to its inevitable conclusion, and I'm sitting here mucking about on the net when I ought to be in bed sleeping, cos man, I am exhausted!

I had a great time.

My Guest of Honour speech went well. I'm both relieved and pleased about that, because when I wrote it I feared it was a bit dumb. I was attempting to answer taht question I get asked from time to time - "where do you get your ideas?". A couple of people spoke to me later to thank me and said they found it useful, or entertaining (and I was going for at least one or the other) so that was lovely. Some people came to the reading I did from The Opposite of Life, and due to time constraints I had to leave them at a cliffhanger! One person said she bought it and went straight to the page I left it as so she could find out what happened next. heh heh. And then I spent ages talking to everyone who was kind enough to bring books for me to sign. Then I talked about fanfic on a panel with the charming Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and learned some things I didn't know, so that was valuable as well as fun.

I had a wonderful time. I talked a lot. A whole lot. I mean, seriously, I talked A LOT. About ... well, pretty much everything.

I managed to shamelessly plug: my own book, Tim's book Mind the Gap, sharpest_rose  's The Wolf House, tomoffinland74  's Look Who's Morphing, the Boxcutters podcast, and the Outland Institute.

(You see what I did there? Smooooooooth with the plugs, Harris.)

And I sang FOB's Lullabye to dalekboy  's boy Lex - who has the most wonderfully wicked grin and little teeth which make me think of Sunny from The Series of Unfortunate Events.

Thank you to everyone involved in the creation of Continuum 5, and for asking me to be a guest. Thank you to everyone who came to my talks and panels and readings, and who bought my book, and spent some time talking with me.

Thanks too to everyone at the Con or on my LJ who commented on my costume. I've passed those comments on to Julia, who made it for me and is the reason I looked so good on the night!