It got far too crowded and airless for me, so I snuck out and headed over to the SFF.NET suite in the west tower. Paul and Liz were there, and I had the chance to catch up with Raechel Henderson of Eggplant Productions. Vera Nazarian and Tippi Blevins were there in the suite, of course. Paul had introduced us earlier, but I don't think Tippi remembered me. I met NAW journaler Lazette Gifford , and talked with her and West Flanagan about Clarion, among other things.
Clarion turns out to have been a great topic of conversation.
And if there was one thing I could use, it was a conversation starter. So I went from one tower to the other, between the SFWA and SFF.NET suites, a few times. At one point I went with the Julia Blackshear Kosatka and Melanie Miller Fletcher to a Tor party, where we chatted for a while. Eventually things wound down. I helped clean up the SFWA suite, went to bed in the spare room.