Malice Domestic
Apr. 30th, 2004 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsThis is the first time I've gone to Malice Domestic, a 16-year-old mystery con in Virginia.
Wow, what I've been missing!
I signed up this year because Marion Babson is a guest, and I love her stuff. Once I had signed up, I started drooling at the panels listed on the website - How to Write a Short Mystery, Historical Mysteries, Crossing Over (authors who write protagonists of the opposite gender), etc., etc., etc. (Go to the website to check them all.)
I didn't stay long today; just long enough to register, shop, and sell my Dresden Files books to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carlacoupe. Like WFC, registration is one of those "here's your badge and stuffed bookbag deals."
And what a bookbag! Nevermind what's in it, we've got hand and shoulder straps, full-length side zip, pen pocket and a cell phone bay.
Unlike WFC, there were fewer books (only one hardback for example). And the general attitude about them was different too. At WFC, people picked through them silently, or dumped what they didn't want on a table and walked off.
At Malice, which is a cozy con (they meant the genre, but it also describes the attitude), women sat around the hotel lobby trading. Although there was the moment when I told someone who had just sat down across from me "I'm trading books! Interested?" only to get the small, nervous response "I hope you're not giving away mine!"
Fortunately, I hadn't even seen her book, much less given it away. So I traded something else for one of hers. Autographed!
Wow, what I've been missing!
I signed up this year because Marion Babson is a guest, and I love her stuff. Once I had signed up, I started drooling at the panels listed on the website - How to Write a Short Mystery, Historical Mysteries, Crossing Over (authors who write protagonists of the opposite gender), etc., etc., etc. (Go to the website to check them all.)
I didn't stay long today; just long enough to register, shop, and sell my Dresden Files books to
carlacoupe. Like WFC, registration is one of those "here's your badge and stuffed bookbag deals."And what a bookbag! Nevermind what's in it, we've got hand and shoulder straps, full-length side zip, pen pocket and a cell phone bay.
Unlike WFC, there were fewer books (only one hardback for example). And the general attitude about them was different too. At WFC, people picked through them silently, or dumped what they didn't want on a table and walked off.
At Malice, which is a cozy con (they meant the genre, but it also describes the attitude), women sat around the hotel lobby trading. Although there was the moment when I told someone who had just sat down across from me "I'm trading books! Interested?" only to get the small, nervous response "I hope you're not giving away mine!"
Fortunately, I hadn't even seen her book, much less given it away. So I traded something else for one of hers. Autographed!
