Portland, Oregon - Wordstock Book Fair

[juniper]

Anyone going to Wordstock Saturday-Sunday October 8-9? At the Oregon Convention Center in NE Portland. The Max light rail has a stop right in front there so if you don't want to drive into the city you can take the rail.

http://www.wordstockfestival.com/

I'm probably going to be there Saturday only. Tickets for one day are $7, for both days $10.

[Rise2theTop]

Man...I'd love to go, too far for me, though. But, I do have a very good friend who lives just north of there I think would enjoy this.
Thanks for posting.

[aadams73]

Oh, cool! I had no idea this was on. Yeah, I think there's a decent chance I'll go. :)

[attacus-atlas]

I'm so there. Can't wait :D

[AuburnAssassin]

I just found out about this yesterday...crawls out from under my rock. I AM going!!!! This'll be my first writing convention evah and I'm so excited. Lots of big names in the line up.

[Elemental Magic]

I'm going. I've been waiting for this all summer! Hitting up some workshops too! Should be a lot of fun!

We should wear a sticker that says "AW" or something, so we can recognize each other. :D

[xXVampyrePrincessXx]

Wish I would've known about this earlier... I would love to go :( too bad I'm stuck in Douglas County for now...

~Amber~

[AuburnAssassin]

I haven't signed up for any workshops but am still pondering such even at this late hour, but it would probably be one of the early AM ones vs. the ones during the day because their times overlap over sessions I want to see. I bought my entry pass online this afternoon!!

I'll put AW on my badge, somewhere, assuming we get those. I'll be ID'd by my pen name Claire Gillian.

[Elemental Magic]

I'm going to the kicking butt & chewing gum workshop at 10:30. It should be interesting.

I'll put "AW" somewhere. I'll keep an eye out for you.

[juniper]

They don't give name badges, that I recall. Just pay your $7 and walk in.

I'll be there tomorrow for several hours, starting around 11. Not going to paid workshops, just hanging out and listening to the readings and other free stuff.

If I can come up with something, I'll wear AW on my shirt. Or maybe I'll wear a little picture of my avatar. I have salt-pepper silver-grey hair.

[AuburnAssassin]

I'm showing up for the first for How to Win Over Agents and Editors at 11 AM Sat, will be there both days, no workshops. I already have my 2 day pass in hand...yay!

I wear glasses and have auburn hair with lots o' grey sprinkled throughout. There's a picture of me on my Claire Gillian web page under the "About" tab. Kat, I've seen your pic on your blog from our blog chain days a few months ago. I'll keep an eye out.

[juniper]

Kat, I've seen your pic on your blog from our blog chain days a few months ago. I'll keep an eye out.

Oh, well, that pic's a couple of years old when I was thinner and, um, less natural with my hair! ;) But I'll take a peek at your Claire Gillian page and maybe see you in the crowd.

[AuburnAssassin]

Well...I'm sorry I missed everybody. I think it would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Those who attended, what did you think? Was it what you expected?

[juniper]

I'm showing up for the first for How to Win Over Agents and Editors at 11 AM Sat

I went to that one too but missed the first couple of minutes and was sitting near the back. Looked for someone with auburn hair but there were quite a few, really, and too crowded to properly see.

I didn't go to any paid workshops. Just went to some of the free ones on Saturday, then walked around getting overwhelmed by the number of booths.

I saw so many small presses, and a lot of companies advertising services for the self-pubbers. Formatting, editing, etc. I don't think I saw anyone offering cover art, though. Hmm.

Some of the small presses were known names and some weren't. Did you see the new printed monthly newspaper about the Portland literary scene? Don't remember what it was called.

I reached info overload early on. What did you think of it all?

[AuburnAssassin]

Yeah, I think it was far too crowed to find a virtual stranger based on vague physical descriptions only. LOL For that agent one, I was near the front. I went both days, but left a little early on day 2, blowing off Maggie Stiefvater (saw her on a panel earlier) and Scott Westerfeld (wah!) but the sessions between when I left and his session weren't my cuppa and like you, I was in info overload.

I wrote a blog post with pictures. If anyone reads, be sure to check out the comments in the second (ROW) link as a couple of the people pictured somehow found my blog through Googling, then commented. LOL

http://clairegillian.com/2011/10/12/2011-wordstock-portland/

and

http://clairegillian.com/2011/10/09/row80-rd-4-wk-1-rpt-2/