Many high spots but I'll try to mention a few....
Meeting and enjoying Barbie Wilde's company and then looking down and seeing the cenobite photo. Penny dropped.
A big thank you to Charles Rudkin for taking us for cocktails and the curry house on the first night. Sitting next to F Paul Wilson and helping him choose a curry...wonderful man with a great sense of humour.
Finding Lisa Tuttles' Nest of Nightmares in the dealers' room and looking for Lisa to sign it. When I found her, imagine my surprise when she pulled Bull Running for Girls out of her bag and asked me to sign that. Reading what she wrote to me and thinking I will treasure those words forever.
THE party on the pier. What a wild time we all had that night...Simon C and Paul were drinking triple whiskies and beer. Getting back to the hotel and Simon Clark dashing over to us saying he'd found another party, so we started all over again. Dancing until 2a.m. I managed to get Rob Shearman to dance for 30 seconds!
Sitting next to Ellen Datlow on the femme fatales panel the morning after with a killer of a hangover thinking I'll never be asked to another panel again and then being asked to be on the same panel at Alt. Fiction.
Getting hammered with Conrad, Shaun Hamilton, Zed ...at which ever launch party it was and staring at Zed in astonishment when he repeated something he had said earlier to someone. The waiter nearly had to scrape me up off the floor after laughing at that one. Going to Sarah Pin's birthday party and having cake and champagne.
Ashtree Press will be held responsible when my husband realises I took my credit cards to Brighton...
Tried twice to get to John and Kate's performance but failed each time...so apologies for that but I did manage to get John's AGAINST THE DARKNESS when I worked out that I just had enough money left (still trying to read what you wrote John : >).
On the journey home I had one of those strange twilight moments when I though what a shame I didn't meet up with Roberta Lannes (Simon Bestwick had asked me if I had met her) then I glance down and see the WHC book bag and ask the lady next to me if she had a good time and sure enough it was Roberta on her way to Derby to meet relatives (she lives in L.A.).
It was a great convention and will be talked about for years!
