Another free breakfast
AUSTIN TX. This time we traveled to Texas, which is always a treat. A really great bunch hosted the Nebula con and there were many fine conversations with old friends and new. Dell Magazines bought breakfast. The effort to the left is what the mysterious Regina got from our first day with a new digital camera.
The AnLab reader's best novella award was for my Jaggers & Shad mystery, "Murder in Parliament Street." This is the second story in the series so honored. The first was "The Good Kill," which received the AnLab Award for Best Novella the previous year. The future of the series is now in the hands of the book publishers. See: Q&A.
After the Nebulas in Austin, the mysterious Regina and I toured central and west Texas, then went up to New Mexico and Carlsbad to see the caverns. Stunning place. Not enough words to describe it and they don't make lenses wide enough to capture even a hint of the grandure.
In the picture, those with sharp eyes can make out the Mysterious Regina in the yellow sweater among the formations. If you can, make the trip. You'll never forget it.
And then, of course, we visited Roswell to say hello to our ancestors. After White Sands it was back home and back to work. It had been my first real vacation since the third grade and it was a lot of fun.
