SFSFC Awards 2009 SMOFCon Scholarship

Kirsten M. Berry is the recipient of the 2009 SFSFC SMOFCon Scholarship. She will receive a $500 grant to attend SMOFCon 27, the annual convention about running SF genre conventions, which this year will be in Austin TX over the weekend of December 4-6. See the full announcement on the SFSFC web site for details.

Train Wrecking as a Hobby

The special Trains Issue of The Drink Tank is out, including my story, "The Day I (Almost) Wrecked a Train."

A couple things that have come up since I submitted the story:

• There's a word missing in the last paragraph of the second column of page 19. It should read, "We didn't have to move the tram very far...." That one is my fault, not Chris'.


• Lisa wasn't driving the electric locomotive. She was standing on the locomotive's outer platform serving as a lookout for the driver, whose view of the tram we were trying to re-rail was blocked at certain angles

( Neepery about what constitutes a 'train.' )

I'm glad Chris was delayed a few days on this issue and that inspiration struck during WFC, and that I had enough time in the Press Office to write the story, because I would have felt very sad if I of all people had missed the Train Issue.