getting started

I wanted to post something right away so folks would know there's a human here, not just a profile. I'm brand new to this, so I don't know how to make anything look pretty, like uploading a picture. But with a little help, maybe even from my friends, I'll eventually learn.

I want to use my LJ to talk about books, stories, music, history, and whatever personal or real-world things enter my consciousness as we go along. I welcome replies...not that there's anything here yet to which anyone could reply. I would appreciate it if those people I've listed as friends would say hi.

I'm only a few days removed from Readercon, which was a great experience. Officially I was there in my capacity as editor/publisher of a small press magazine I was selling at the SFPA table. But that was just a pretext. Some of you have already posted extensive comments about Readercon, and I haven't anything brilliant to add just now. I did manage to get cool books by sovay and nineweaving, along with Sean Wallace's new magazine Jabberwocky, complete with poems by sovay and rushthatspeaks. The Jabberwocky reading was one of the con highlights for me.

OK, my newbie incompetence is making me self-conscious. I'm hoping that before long I'll be able to communicate in less primitive form.