Foolscap 2010
Sep. 26th, 2010 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsIt was a lovely Saturday at Foolscap. We could only go for one day, our finances being what they are. I spent most of it talking with publishers about the state of the publication, and a relatively strong rant on how self-publication is never going to match "the big houses." Especially not for genre because people will always trust editors over the guesswork of a cover art and back cover blurb, i.e., when you buy Baen or Tor, you know, more or less, what you're getting.
There was good dinner with Ed & Amy Thompson and their kid at an awesome Mexican place. Kouryou-chan got roped into being the voice of "Wesson" in a radio play edition of Buck Godot, Zap Gun For Hire, and she did an awesome job of playing a fast-talking, snark-filled laser pistol.
Sadly, what I did not find at Foolscap was my writing mojo. Several other writers confessed a similar feeling: the general mood of the country ate too many brain cells with neurotic concerns for our own personal futures, and writing about other futures had become that much harder. I wonder if a decline in the quantity of SF written can be an economic marker?
There was good dinner with Ed & Amy Thompson and their kid at an awesome Mexican place. Kouryou-chan got roped into being the voice of "Wesson" in a radio play edition of Buck Godot, Zap Gun For Hire, and she did an awesome job of playing a fast-talking, snark-filled laser pistol.
Sadly, what I did not find at Foolscap was my writing mojo. Several other writers confessed a similar feeling: the general mood of the country ate too many brain cells with neurotic concerns for our own personal futures, and writing about other futures had become that much harder. I wonder if a decline in the quantity of SF written can be an economic marker?
