a spindle splintered sneak peek alix e harrow

I sold a lot of books at City Lit (I mean, not to brag, but: a lot of books), did a lot of work for events there, and contributed a lot of staff picks to their 2022 picks, speculative and otherwise. It was rewarding and interesting and I don’t think the con-running bug has exactly bitten me. And I caught a lot of great events and readings around Chicago, including some great panels at the American Writers Festival and Printers Row Lit Fest.Ĭhicon (which was last year’s World Science Fiction Convention) was a massive amount of work I worked on the Outreach team, became the Literature Area Head for programming, kinda sorta mostly took over Fringe, and did a lot of triage/troubleshooting for Program Ops through the con itself, as well as appearing on a few panels.

It was great to be back at Wiscon in person had some great panels and conversations. The Depaul Pop Culture Conference, as usual, was energetic and delightful-on Sherlock Holmes this last year. Spoil the Conference was one of the best academic conferences I’ve been to in ages, transformative and enriching. I attended quite a few clubs-Think Galactic, Chicago Nerds, and a handful of Weird & Wonderful meetings-and organized and ran a staggering number of Hugo clubs for Chicon. I’ve still been reviewing for the Chicago Review of Books, and started writing for Locus towards the end of the year. Personally, bookishly, it was pretty good.

A spindle splintered sneak peek alix e harrow