Well met my bonnie lads and lasses! Welcome to Julie's Highland Fling. A light-hearted, haggis-warming account of my trip to Intersection in Glasgow. Sit down with a glass of fine single malt whiskey and a tin of shortbread, and relax as the first strains of bagpipe music filter down from the highlands...

Highland Snapshot #1

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This beauty was taken at the con bar. (We were drinking coffee for those who are wondering.) The lady on the right is Lydia Moon, who works at my local bookstore and has sold lots of copies of my book, for which I am most grateful. The gentleman in the middle is Stephen Saffel, who as well as being a good friend of Lydia's is also an editor at Del Rey . When I came down with the dreaded Highland Flu on the last day of the convention, Steve kindly gave me some rather nice Swiss cough drops.

	Highland Snapshot #2
Click	The Great Thigh-Off! This photo was taken at the Tor party , where this lovely lady and I had a little skirmish over who had the best thighs! I'm sorry to say she beat me hands down. I would have slugged her then and there, only she was holding a copy of my book at the time and I didn't want to risk damaging it! Just wait until the re-match in L.A .

	Highland Snapshot #3
Click	This is me. Yes, just me. It was taken at the Orbit/ Warner Aspect party , where everyone who attended received a copy of The Baker's Boy as well as David Feintuch's wonderful book Midshipman's Hope . If you look closely, you can see that I am in fact signing one of my books. I'll send a fresh haggis to anyone who can guess what I wrote!

	Highland Snapshot #4
Click	This is me and my con-buddy Anna. In addition to introducing me to the delights of chocolate hazelnut spread and being a thoroughly charming person, Anna once worked on Clive Barker's astrological chart. For those wondering about the graphic on the handsome t-shirt I'm wearing, it is the U.K. cover for Bruce Bethke's totally hip cyberdrama Headcrash.

	Highland Snapshot #5
Click	Laura and Me. I met this lovely, friendly woman at the Kansas City Bid Party (I think!). It was one of several parties going on that night, and as I was wearing the Cool Sunglasses at the time, I couldn't see anything very clearly.

	Highland Snapshot #6
Click	This striking gentleman was on his way to walk down Glasgow's main street when I commandeered him for photographing. While graciously agreeing to be photographed, he understandably refused to comment on the potential perils of being caught in the infamous Scottish mist while wearing fishnets and a tail!

Highland Snapshot #7

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Hmm. This photo was taken the night I turned up late for the CompuServe dinner, and Diane Duane and Peter Morwood kindly offered to let me eat with them instead. Diane and Peter were the guests of honor at the convention, and in addition to knowing an awful lot about food and wine (Peter's combat vest was loaded down with hot sauce samples), are a very kind and gracious couple. The handsome gentleman whose kilt I am holding is Vince Docherty, who as Co-Chair of the convention must be congratulated for making Intersection such a great success.

	Highland Snapshot #8
Click	This wonderfully dressed lady turned heads in the convention for fours days solid! Not only did this confirmed Anne Rice fan look terribly spiffy with her cane, fangs, ruffles and thigh boots (sorry, blame the cameraman they aren't in the shot, not me!), but she was also very friendly, too