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A Con Primer for Authors and Artists
Feb. 22nd, 2007 05:13 pmhttp://cfyork.blogspot.com/2007/02/dont-be-pinhead.html
Chris York posts some tips to writers attending first conventions, or first time at a type of convention -- thought it would interest folks.
YMMV, but these rules have done well by me since I started using them. I dodged a huge accident lawsuit because I KNEW I was not under the influence of alcohol that night -- I had a chance to meet Roger Zelazny, and I was NOT going to mess it up with alcohol. I also said something too loud once at a con, and spent a lot of time repairing the mistake.
Please, no posts on "being yourself". You must be yourself by remembering what the traffic will bear at a specific convention. What goes at say, Conestoga, may hurt you at World Fantasy, and walking into any SFWA suite with either a costume on, or wearing clothes that are sexually blatant, may earn you a mental "amateur" thought, or the "Looking for sex, not contacts" thought. (Even accepting a dinner offer with a new acquaintance can cause an awkward moment.)
You've already screwed up? Fine -- pretend it's the Regency, and you have been "rusticating" in the country until there's another scandal to take over the gossip circuit. And start following "The Writer Rules"!
Good luck!
Chris York posts some tips to writers attending first conventions, or first time at a type of convention -- thought it would interest folks.
YMMV, but these rules have done well by me since I started using them. I dodged a huge accident lawsuit because I KNEW I was not under the influence of alcohol that night -- I had a chance to meet Roger Zelazny, and I was NOT going to mess it up with alcohol. I also said something too loud once at a con, and spent a lot of time repairing the mistake.
Please, no posts on "being yourself". You must be yourself by remembering what the traffic will bear at a specific convention. What goes at say, Conestoga, may hurt you at World Fantasy, and walking into any SFWA suite with either a costume on, or wearing clothes that are sexually blatant, may earn you a mental "amateur" thought, or the "Looking for sex, not contacts" thought. (Even accepting a dinner offer with a new acquaintance can cause an awkward moment.)
You've already screwed up? Fine -- pretend it's the Regency, and you have been "rusticating" in the country until there's another scandal to take over the gossip circuit. And start following "The Writer Rules"!
Good luck!
