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Kim Campbell of Perth, Australia, traveled halfway around the world to attend Dragon*Con. 24 hours of flight time took her through Auckland, New Zealand, Los Angeles, and Chicago before arriving in Atlanta.
“I was told that Dragon*Con was the con to come to, ” Campbell explained, confirming Dragon*Con’s worldwide reputation. Asked what her favorite thing about the con was so far, Campbell immediately replied that she had met so many nice people, exchanged cards, and was looking forward to keeping in touch.
A devoted Buffy fan, Campbell beamed when she talked about meeting James Marsters. “He’s totally brilliant and dead sexy,” she said, adding that Marsters had signed her George Takei T-shirt . . . with her in it.
“I’ve walked how many kilometers, I don’t know,” Campbell said. She has been through the Walk of Fame, the dealers’ room and attended an Emerald Rose concert. She commented, “I can understand how they got their following.”
| Amy Herring grew up beneath NASA’s shadow in Rocket City, USA (Huntsville, Alabama). Herring writes genre and mainstream stories and novels with an eye toward a career change from her current law practice (including over a decade protecting the rights to sexual privacy for Alabama citizens). Three of her genre stories have been published under her nom de plume, Louise Herring-Jones: "Colony Earth Redux" in Footprints (Hadley Rille Books, 2009); “Slimed” in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology (Fandom Press/Windstorm Creative, 2005) and “. . . would smell as sweet” (shorthorror.com, 2006) Although her first print article, "A Georgia Yankee: The Legend of Johnny Mize," appeared nationally in bookstores in the 2010 Maple St. Press Yankees Annual, she hasn’t given up her day job...yet. |
