MediaWest Wrap-up

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Seeing as I'm leaving at 10:30 tomorrow morning for a flight to Vancouver (I'll be M.I.A. for a little more than a week) I've realized that there's no way I'm going to get an actual report of MW done. So, instead, here are a few select highlights.


Having a long discussion with Kath Moonshine about Aragorn/Boromir slash, the scarcity of such slash in zines and, finally, RPS. One thing I love about fandom is meeting like-minded people that you click with, and Kath is definitely one of those. I can't wait to get my hands on Eternally Bound, the A/B novel she and Glow wrote. I'm picking it up at ZCon, though it is available for order now. (Their contact info can be found at http://www.moonglowzines.com/)

Meeting up with Linda Cabrillo, S&H zine publisher extraordinaire, and talking S/H, LotR and whatever else took our fancy. Oh, and I introduced her to my best pal, m. butterfly, who just happens to have an S/H story she's nearing the end of. Publisher-friend meet writer-friend. Go me.

Being pulled up to the UNCLE party suite by the lovely Di K for "UNCLE fan photos", only to discover it was actually a wedding congrats party for me and my roomie, Sandra. No, we didn't marry each other. (The big guy will be relieved about that.) But Sandra is getting married over Thanksgiving, and the UNCLE gang knew I'd gotten married last fall. Owing to the fact that we're both slashers, the inscription on the cake was to "Pauline/Sandra" Heh. Photos of the two of us cutting the cake will go up in this space as soon as I've taken them in for developing. (Note to self: get a freaking digital camera already.)

Meeting up with Carolyn Golledge, whose lovely zine, Warriors of Gondor, marked a return to me writing gen. In my defense, it's an all-Gondor zine, focussing heavily on Boromir: I would have written het to be in it. Well, okay, maybe not het, but gen was definitely not a problem. Carolyn is a lovely woman, and a pleasure to write for. I just hope that at my next MW we get to sit down for an even longer, proper discussion. (Info on Carolyn's zines, all gen, is at http://www.ltljverse.com/embassy/zines/)

Hanging out with UNCLE fan Vicky Loebel and company, and watching Galaxy Quest. I adore that movie anyway, but it's even more fun when you're hanging out in a fannish context. And it was nice to spend some time with Vicky, since until now, we just seem to have had the occasional, brief conversation at the never-ending MW UNCLE parties. Oh, and Vicky's sister, Dusky, does the most beautiful fused glass jewellry. I got one of her pendants with Chinese characters that is utterly gorgeous.

Spending tons of time with the UNCLE crew in general. st_crispins, Di K, Pat B, Brenda D, Kate D, Nan M and all the others that I'm no doubt fogetting. Oh, and not forgetting my other roomie, the lovely and talented Marian Kelly, who is the best publisher I've ever worked with. I've got a new story in her latest issue of Relative Secrecy. (Order info for all Marian's UNCLE zines can be found at http://users.frii.com/wanderer/mfuzines.html)

Last but not least, sharing the Duran Duran love with ndannais. And being extremely jealous of her plans to see them multiple times this year. Culminating with a Christmas gig in London. Very cool.

In the wake of the con, I've made a few resolutions that I'm going to include here to focus my attention.

1. I am going to finally finish my April Dancer story for Kate D's new gen UNCLE zine. (Just don't tell Kate that Illya and Napoleon are still totally doing each other in the story universe. I'm just not going to talk about it.)

2. I am vowing to finish my UNCLE story cycle by February next year. Because given the change of lifestyle we're going to have then, there's no way I'll get it finished for several years if it ain't done by then. There's going to be 11 stories total, 6 are done, the remaining 5 are in various stages of half-finishedness and outlining. If I get the sucker done, it'll be the one time I publish a standalone zine of my own stuff. Which is reason enough to finish it.

3. I am not going to do a premiere vid for VividCon this year. Getting Bohemian Like You ready for MW put me in a slough of sleep debt that I am still crawling out of. I'm not going to do that to myself again so soon, and for a con I'm not even attending.

4. If the stars align, I'm going to try and write a S/H story for Linda C. Because she's swearing the next zine will be her last, and I've always thought her zines were the classiest in the fandom.

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[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

2. I am vowing to finish my UNCLE story cycle by February next year. Because given the change of lifestyle we're going to have then, there's no way I'll get it finished for several years if it ain't done by then. There's going to be 11 stories total, 6 are done, the remaining 5 are in various stages of half-finishedness and outlining. If I get the sucker done, it'll be the one time I publish a standalone zine of my own stuff. Which is reason enough to finish it.

Great news! I certainly hope you manage to get the stories done because I'm really looking forward to reading them. And a standalone zine at that! But does that mean that "The Das Vadanya Affair" and "Lovers and Other Stangers," are not part of Zedverse?

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Yeah, they're part of the Zedverse. (Your story is the only one that isn't, since the Zedverse already had a first time.) What I should have said was that it's the first time I'll have a zine of just my own stuff.

Cross your fingers that it all gets done. I'm optimistic, at the moment, but then I always am after MW.