I have a con schedule this year! There are definitely three on the slate so far this year and I’ll be doing press stuff at another couple. These though involve me doing things where I actually stand up and talk about stuff to people.
So, over the weekend, genre fiction Twitter basically burned to the ground. The announcement of Jonathan Ross as celebrity host of the Hugos led to one of the fastest, and nastiest, flame wars in a very long time. Inside eight hours, he’d stood down but the bad feeling on both sides of the debate was, …