{"id":2282,"date":"2011-02-27T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T02:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2011-05-07T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T18:44:14","slug":"mysticon-2011-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/mysticon-2011-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"MystiCon 2011 wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/universal_monsters.jpg\" alt=\"Not Urban Fantasy\" title=\"Not Urban Fantasy\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">This is not urban fantasy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We are home, safe and sound, from MystiCon 2011. We had a good time, and we are glad we went. Here are some thoughts in no particular order.<\/p>\n<p>I liked Brinke Stevens. I can&#8217;t recall (offhand) ever enjoying a guest of honor as much at a con. I wish her luck with her writing.<\/p>\n<p>It annoys me that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horror.org\/horror-is.htm\">&#8220;horror&#8221; is apparently no longer a genre<\/a>, and that all of these vampire romance novels are called &#8220;urban fantasy&#8221;. WTF. I have an easy test for anyone wondering if a book is &#8220;urban fantasy&#8221;: if the protagonist or antagonist in your novel is one of the Universal Studios classic movie monsters, <strong>it&#8217;s not fantasy<\/strong>, much less &#8220;urban fantasy&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451457811\/rpglibrary\/\">Storm Front<\/a> is urban fantasy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0425197549\/rpglibrary\/\">Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter<\/a> is not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0765300346\/rpglibrary\/\">War For The Oaks<\/a> is urban fantasy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441019331\/rpglibrary\/\">Dead Until Dark<\/a> is not. This is not rocket science.<\/p>\n<p>We really enjoyed hanging out with Carla and Brian. Fun folks. I hope they come to RavenCon some day (although they won&#8217;t this year). We met several other fun people, as well, but I am terrible with names, so I can&#8217;t tell you theirs.<\/p>\n<p>The character sheet for Greg Porter&#8217;s new Verne game is simply amazing. Also, CORPS has been replaced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btrc.net\/html\/eaba.html\">EABA<\/a>&#8230; as of eight years or so ago, which shows you how out of touch I am.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast thing worked out pretty well, I think, but I have learned something in the process: I am painfully tedious. There are some people who are so tedious that I can barely stand to be in the same room with them when they are talking. I am one of those people. I don&#8217;t know how anyone else stands me. Aside from my annoying nasal voice, I combine the worst aspects of someone who can&#8217;t string together two coherent thoughts and someone who appears convinced of their own brilliance. If I was in the audience for a panel I was on, I would probably just leave. No accounting for taste, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I need to find a way to tether my phone to my laptop, so that I won&#8217;t be dependent on a malfunctioning hotel internet connection. I know that there are Android tethering apps; I am just not sure if my phone can do it.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to play in a superhero LARP some time. We were too busy for me to participate in one this time.<\/p>\n<p>Having pizza in the con suite Friday night was awesome. Having a hotel room across the hall and one door down from the con suite was doubly awesome.<\/p>\n<p>In general, I am glad we went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not urban fantasy We are home, safe and sound, from MystiCon 2011. We had a good time, and we are glad we went. Here are some thoughts in no particular order. I liked Brinke Stevens. I can&#8217;t recall (offhand) ever enjoying a guest of honor as much at a con. 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