Ah, so it's a writing conference? Cool! And not at *all* surprising that they loved your work. (Morons if they didn't!) I fell in love even aside from your TS fic which I already loved -- before I realized you were Panik, and I read your user info bio when we first "met" online and you'd written:

I spent a long time in nasty, sticky places covered in leeches studying the South and Central American cultures and civilizations and this is still very much a big interest of mine.

I still take that out and treasure it when I need a lift.

Closing on a note of shame that I live in a country from which the requested souvenir is a ::sobs quietly:: *Twinkie.*