My parents and
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Dad and Mom

Jersey Girl, Dad, Me, Mom
There was a comic convention going on next door, so some crossover happened.

These are not the SF writers you are looking for
Still we had fun.

Me and Jersey Girl, who'd never attended an SF event before
And though I did not win, I got to give away the Best Short Story Nebula to a charmingly shocked Aliette de Bodard.


I'll post more later about the emotional experience of this weekend, and how it has intersected with my illness. For now, suffice to say I had an amazingly good time. My family was pretty happy to be there. My thanks to chair Dave Gallaher, SFWA President John Scalzi, and everyone who worked so hard to make this all come together as fantastically well as it did.
Photos © 2013 N. Schaadt and others. All rights reserved, reproduced with permission. As usual, more at the Flickr set.