It's my friend A's birthday on the 10th, so I may be a wee bit hungover on the 11th. OTOH, if I can crash in New Haven, I can shave 45 minutes off of the travel time to NYC.

I'm obsessed with Streets BK on Broadway in Brooklyn. They have these amazing chicharrones that are little nuggets of porky amazingness. But, I bow to the wisdom of the locals.

Anyone else going to be at Geek Girl Con in Seattle this weekend?

Me! Me! I'll be there, probably all Peggy Carter, with Tiny Black Widow along for the ride.

I'll look for you! I'll be on my own on Saturday, and Annabel and I will go together on Sunday.

Next week - from the 13th-18th, I'll be in the northeast with authors Seth Dickinson and Ilana C. Myers! (then on the 21st I'll be reading at KGB bar with Nathan Ballingrud for Fantastic Fiction)

If you are in these parts of the woods, you can find me at the following locations at the following times - and I'd love to see a friendly face:

Tuesday, October 13, 7:00p.m. Wellesley Books - Wellesley, MA

Wednesday, October 14, 5:00p.m. Books a Million -South Portland, ME

Thursday, October 15, 6:30p.m. Toadstool Bookshop - Milford, NH [edited - Tor initially said Keene but now it's Milford]

Saturday, October 17, 7:00p.m. Northshire -Saratoga Springs, NY

Sunday, October 18, 4:00p.m. Northshire - Manchester, VT

ETA to change a location

Attention Seattle-istas!

I'm firming up plans for traveling to your fair city the 1st weekend of November. I'm looking at flying in (probably early evening) on Thursday the 5th, and heading out (probably afternoon) of Monday the 9th.

Please tell me some of you will be there!

It turns out my niece is getting married earlier in the week, and Saturday the 7th is just reception/party/pub crawl (after-party-ish). So I'm booked Saturday afternoon/evening, but other than that I'm pretty open and would LOVELOVELOVE to see some/all of you!

I'm also taking recommendations for tourist-y stuff to do and see (seriously, Space Needle may literally be the only attraction I've heard of).

I was thinking of asking to couch surf, but since I'm now looking at 4 nights, plus am allergic to most of y'all's furry friends, I'm looking at hotels. The party is at the Dakota Place Park Building. Any recommendations for neighborhoods I should be looking at? All my niece told me was "Downtown". Are any of these other names I'm seeing on hotels listings useful to me (Bellevue, Tukwila, near SeaTac, etc.)?

Thanks for any advice and/or wisdom you can offer. I've never been to Seattle before so I'm really trying to cram as much "vacation" into my long weekend as I can!

Epic, SeaTac/Tukwila (depending on where) would be near the airport. If they have a shuttle or are walking distance, you could take the light rail downtown. Bellevue would not be doable unless you have a car.

I'm probably going to rent a car. I'm from San Diego - I think public transportation is great in theory, but I'm near useless at navigating it. Plus I carry too much stuff, all the time, so not walking miles with it is good.

Or is Seattle's Pub Trans that good? Thinking back, I'm remembering someone telling me that Seattle's was great - but she had just moved to San Diego, so maybe it's only great compared to ours, which is crap? And is Seattle park-able, or is it more like NYC or SF or DC, where it's not worth the agita to even try to park?

It's pretty shitty, parking is usually not too awful.

Thanks. I'll go ahead and leave the rental car in the planning then.