Hello, Kay;

04 Jul 05 18:13, Kay Shapero wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>> Yes, that's what I meant...  But what's a den mother?

 KS> The person who keeps tab on the committee in general and makes sure
 KS> they remember to do extraneous things like eat or sleep.  I also

Hmmm.  Sounds like a combination of chairperson and childminder...

 KS> wander about the convention looking for bugs and reporting them to
 KS> whoever can deal with them.  The sort of thing most of the committee
 KS> hasn't TIME to do.

If they aren't dealing with glitches, what do they do?  (you can tell I've 
never been to a con)

 KS> So's Monkey.  (chuckle).  Kwan Yin means to send scriptures of

 KS> the book to tell us all about one of them (Monkey; who is quite a

Is this Hanuman?

 KS> character in more senses than one), the second to follow the journey.
 KS> Very Buddhist.  The book's a classic, though this is the first time

Does this have an "author" under whose name one would look it up?

 KS> Three somebodys - Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer, book
 KS> entitled "The Wizard of Karres".  It starts out where the
first book
 KS> ended, with the silver eyed baby vatch causing trouble, and like the
 KS> first book proceeds in directions rich and strange.  Nice job.

I'm surprised a three-way cooperation went that well.  I don't remember the 
baby vatch having silver eyes - my turn to say the book's upstairs  ;-)  
and ISTR it only appeared in the last paragraph or so.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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