"These are the scary-ass elevators in the hotel lobby. Yes, they're glass. Yes, the hotel is built open all the way to the thirtieth story. Yes, I was terrified. And there were no normal, non-horrifying elevators. The other set of were glass to the outside of the hotel, so you got a great view of Houston from thirty stories up (if you went up there, which I didn't)."


"This is the view of the lobby from the evil elevator. We were on the 11th floor, and I think this was taken at about the fifth. So, the night I went to a party in Mary Janice Davidson's hotel room (name drop drop) on the twenty-eighth story, my knees turned to water."


"This was my slut-o-rama costume for Ellora's Cave's Moulin Rouge party. So cool. They had their cover models out on the dance floor, dressed only in very tight pants and suspenders. And a good time was had by all. Except my husband."


Photo by Christina Radish
"Look! It happened! It wasn't a dream (though it was a dream come true)! There's Rachel Caine, moi, and Charlaine Harris!"


Photo by Christina Radish
"But wait, there is more coolness! That's me, Charlaine Harris and Jim "Dresden Files" Butcher. I was sitting next to him on a different panel and he played with a kazoo under the table the whole time. True story."


Photo by Cheryl Sterling
"This is my husband, Joe, and I all dressed up for the Faery Ball. I did that magical job on our hair and make-up. You can't see it very well, but mine stands straight back and is tinted with liquid bronzer make-up. We didn't enter the costume competition, but several people said we should have because of our make-up."


Photo by Christina Radish
"This is me at the huge group book signing on Saturday morning. It was the first time I ever realized that people in Australia know my name, and I felt uber-famous."






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