Barcelona
I haven't blogged in a while, but I thought I would do a post about my Barcelona trip, rather than 58 tweets. Why Barcelona? I discovered two years ago when I did the Eurocon in Dublin the week after LonCon that Eurocon isn't a great professional convention. In Dublin, so much so that I decided to just put the bill for the whole stay as a personal expense so I could enjoy Dublin guilt free. But, Barcelona is the heart of the Spanish publishing business, so when I saw the next Eurocon would be in Barcelona, I eyed it as a chance to see Spanish publishers on their home turf with more time to talk and learn than in the 30 minute appointments that we have in endless succession at London Book Fair. And to visit Spanish bookstores, and with our agents for the Spanish market. Any bar-con or schmoozing that Eurocon presented would be an add-on. And then it turned out that Eurocon dovetailed nicely with a European tour that Brandon Sanderson had on his schedule, so we worked the it