Serious drinking is still going on down in the bar, but I appear to have consumed at least one bottle of wine over the course of today so I’m wimping out and answering email instead.

The live coverage of the BFS Awards went very well. We didn’t get an enormous crowd, but I was able to do it interactively and that’s a huge amount of fun. Hopefully World Fantasy will be just as much fun and with lots more people.

The reaction to the winners appears to have been fairly positive. Obviously people outside of the BFS will raise eyebrows at Neil Gaiman and Stephen King both losing in two categories, but the electorate here is fairly small and tends to reward people it knows rather than people who are famous. Joe Hill they know and love — he came to FantasyCon as a newbie PS Publishing author long before the news of his parentage broke. His father, they think, doesn’t need their awards, and they are probably right.

I’m off to bed now. I have the new Rob Holdstock to read. G’night.