GIE was in town to speak at the ARISIA conference, which is a New England based science fiction and fantasy extravaganza. The two inaugural writers for MHB met up for some lunch and fun!

GIE and CB eat fried foods with abandon.

A view of the con. Totally eclectic and awesome!

And here’s one of the sessions that GIE’s helping to lead. Please note that’s it’s all about demonstrating hand-to-hand combat and GIE is the only chick on the panel. Yeah, she’s so badass.

Writing Swordfights and Hand-to-Hand Combat – Writing, Panel – 1hr 15min – Otis (2W)Violent encounters are a good way to up the tension in your story. Our panel of martial artists will not only explain the phases of combat, what goes through their mind prior to ‘going at it’, and what makes a realistic swordfight, knife-fight, stick-fighting or hand-to-hand encounter, but they will also demonstrate a few basic moves, answer questions, and help one lucky attendee work out the mechanics of their work-in-progress.Mark J. Millman (m), Michael Bailey, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Paul Kenworthy, Daniel Marsh

GIE says, ‘I could kick those butts.’

Thanks for taking a look at our scrapbook. Come back soon for more behind-the-scenes fun!