Still, I’ve run a con now. That can be ticked off my list.

It grieves me so much to know how battered you were by the convention, and how the majority of the signals you seemed to take in and acknowledge were those from the negative few, rather than the positive many.

From my point of view, apart from the fact that I hardly got to see you, I had a magnificent convention. I spent so much time over those many days talking to people – some good friends, some new friends, quite a lot of fellow professionals – and everyone agreed what an amazing event it was. The pro writers in particular were deeply satisfied with it, but I also spoke with plenty of long term/old fans who had wandered away from fandom for some of the reasons you outlined in your previous post, but wandered back this one time, and found it everything they were looking for.

Your grand, ambitious plans paid off in so many ways, and while you personally suffered for it, I wish you had seen the con through my eyes, even just for one day.

Because it was SO VERY AWESOME.