Thursday, January 03, 2008

No I Will Not Be Attending Your Panel

cause AWP is apparently sold out and I haven't registered yet. I usually do that onsite, but apparently they won't be doing any of that -- so they won't be getting my $180 or whatever dollars.

Now I have a hotel room (took care of that over summer) -- and Bloof Books, Coconut Books & No Tell Books will be holding an offsite event on Friday, February 1 at Stain Bar in Brooklyn. So I'll be in NYC, at the hotel bar (in spirit, with the spirits, guzzling the spirits), I guess, which is where I usually end up anyhow -- and perhaps some kind soul will allow me to borrow his/her badge so I can visit the book fair and maybe attend the Ed Ochester tribute or the Liam Rector memorial.

Blah. I'll probably have to kill someone just to get a drink at the hotel bar -- I practically had to last year.

16 Comments:

At 3:44 PM, Blogger shanna said...

Ha. See you there. I didn't register either. On purpose.

All the fun stuff happens offsite anyway!

 
At 3:50 PM, Blogger Charles said...

I think they're still accepting bjs as payment, though.

 
At 4:25 PM, Blogger RL said...

Damn, my 2008 resolution is to quit giving bjs as payment. I'm having the worst luck today.

 
At 5:37 PM, Blogger Jeannine said...

I can always sneak you in inside my gigantic pink laptop bag...
I just registered a week or so ago. They didn't indicate they were close to selling out then...

 
At 6:12 PM, Blogger C. Dale said...

Just call them. The online system they use is retarded and has a number set as if registrations were t-shirts. So call and I bet you can register over the phone.

 
At 7:45 PM, Blogger RL said...

C.Dale, it's not the online system, it's the announcement they posted on their site today:

"SOLD OUT! The 2008 Conference & Bookfair in NYC is sold out. No more passes will be sold. No onsite registration will be available. 7,000 people will be attending the NYC conference. Only pre-registered individuals possessing a registration badge will be admitted into the conference events & bookfair. Thank you for your support."

 
At 8:13 PM, Blogger Ginger Heatter said...

I just signed up to work a 4-hour shift in exchange for free registration. Apparently that option is still open, but for students only, until 1/9.

 
At 8:17 PM, Blogger RL said...

Ginger, glad to hear it worked out for you.

 
At 10:38 PM, Blogger Reen said...

Dude, you can borrow my magic badge for bookfair sneakiness. I'll be there for like 1000 days, and there's only so many books I can look at!

 
At 12:18 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

and if you can't find her, you can have mine after Friday morning- I'll still be in the city until late Saturday night but am going off for fun wherever I can find it.

 
At 5:04 PM, Blogger Shin Yu Pai said...

I inquired with AWP and at the very least, the bookfair is still open to the public on Saturday (and is free).

 
At 8:01 PM, Blogger RL said...

Shin Yu, well I am glad to hear that. Thanks.

 
At 12:57 AM, Blogger Steven D. Schroeder said...

I imagine I'll see you at the bar...

 
At 1:28 AM, Blogger RL said...

Yep, unless they start requiring badges to drink.

 
At 12:20 PM, Blogger shanna said...

hey, cool, they did change that dumb no-public bookfair rule. saturday only, as shin yu says...link

 
At 9:09 PM, Blogger Collin Kelley said...

I love you all but I am so GLAD I'm not going to be there this year. There is going to be a blizzard. I feel it in the air...

;-)

 

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