Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:04:29 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA Forum" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Reiters event status report
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

50 is a good turn out.

& you almost got Goonan's name right: Kathleen Ann Goonan.  I thought
she lived in Florida .... how interesting.

mjw

>>> <samlubell at verizon.net> 05/23/07 10:54 AM >>>
Sorry you couldn't make it.

The event went very well.  We had close to 50 people there and a
bookstore person said they were happy and surprised with the turnout.

Yoji Kondo wasn't there but Katherine Ann Goonan (spelling
aproximate)saw the mention in the Book World and came and so was added
to the table (although the bookstore, of course, had no way of knowing
so didn't have her books).

Much of the talk focused on the sigma group of writers who have advised
the government on science, with Jerry Pournelle talking about how they
helped write the first draft of Reagan's SDI speech.

Lots of people brought their own books but I noticed a lot of copies of
Bear's new Quantico and the new edition of Niven/Pournelle Footfall,
that I assumed were bought in the store.

So, I'd classify it as a success. Captain Chris Christopher said he'd
like to do another one next year.  We probably could interest the
bookstore in doing something tied to Capclave.

>From: Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>Date: 2007/05/23 Wed AM 08:51:40 CDT
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Cc: WSFA Forum <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [WSFA] Reiters event ...

>So ... how'd it go?
>
>Sorry I couldn't make it ... life & the universe conspired to make it
>difficult.
>
>mjw