I rode down to Denver with Mike Brotherton, David Levine and Deanna Hoak. You’d think the week had been enough, but we kept talking astronomy on the way here. We got in about 11:00 and went straight to our panel on Launchpad, where we were joined by the lovely and talented Samantha Henderson. Basically, we […]
. . I have my official schedule for World Con now. Launch Pad: Astronomy for Writers Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Launch Pad is a week-long crash course in modern astronomy for writers founded by Mike Brotherton and held each summer at the University of Wyoming. NASA foots the bill with the goald of increasing the quality
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Saturday I went to fewer panels and spent more time hanging out with friends. The morning started with the Codex breakfast, which featured a completely different group of Codexians than we had at the retreat. It was good to see Elaine Isaak, Doug Cohen, Joy Marchand, ((Did not get enough time with Joy)) Cat Rambo,
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Let me talk about conventions and their relationship to my writing life. Everyone will have very different experiences, depending on their personality. Here’s how it works for me. I primarily go to conventions for three reasons. To see other people in the field whose company I enjoy. Improve craft/business sense. To be “visible.” 1) To
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Stu Segal has organized a program for WorldCon called Strolling With The Stars. To encourage a healthier, more active environment at Denvention 3 we are scheduling a 9AM walk every morning. We’ll leave from under the Big Blue Bear at the Colorado Convention Center, and we’ll stroll for a leisurely mile through downtown Denver. Each
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I’ve added WisCon to my must-do conventions. You can tell that I liked it because I came to bed too late to write a post every single night I was here. The panels were, on the whole, good. There were times when I wanted them to dig a little deeper, but the subject matter was
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Or perhaps I will arrive in Madison later. The flight was oversold and they were offering a free round-trip ticket to volunteers so, I’m going to hang out in the airport and catch the 11:00 flight. Not sure when I get into Madison, but my first panel at WisCon isn’t until tomorrow and I’m sure
Not that I have anything terribly exciting to report. I just wanted you to know where I am. I’m supposed to arrive in Madison at 9:08.
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I’ll be going to my first WisCon and am extremely excited by the programming they offer. Here are just the panels that I’ll be on. Title: Beyond Illustration: The Process of Creating ‘Vision’ Saturday, 9:00-10:15 P.M. Caucus Much of SF/F art is illustrative, growing directly out of the writer’s vision. But some artists are doing
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I managed to miss both of the panels yesterday and think I have a taste of what the next year will be. Why? Because I was in meetings rather than at the panels. Strangely fun meetings, I’ll grant, but nonetheless. The Nebula weekend is largely unstructured, providing the members a chance to hobnob with each
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This is my first Nebula Weekend, so I don’t have anything else to compare it to except other cons. After checking in, I found my way to where they were handing out free books. I mean, hey, books, you know? Gotta keep your priorities straight. Every member got two heeping grocery bags of hardbacks. Good
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So, that box the post office tried to deliver yesterday wasn’t Shimmer. It contained my contributor copies The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume two. Keen! I want to give a shout out Mike Munsil, who created Liberty Hall Writers, an online group that does weekly flash challenges. My story, “Evil Robot Monkey” came
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Those of you who aren’t interested in the politics of Science-Fiction and Fantasy can skip this post. For the rest of you, I have some explaining to do. I’ve volunteered to help SFWA by chairing the Service to SFWA committee, which has been revamped to recruit, retain and reward volunteers. Any service organization, like SFWA,
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I had a seriously great time. Hung out with many fabulous people but didn’t get to spend enough time with any of them. Got back to the city and went straight to the theater to pick up the dead dog and the intestines. My god… I have such a strange job. Anyway, I’ll try to
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I have had great fun at the convention so far. I’ve split off from the crowd occasionally to do phone calls trying to deal with some complications in the show. Tell you about it all later. Right now, I’m going to try to get an actual full night of sleep. It’s only 1:30 am. That’s
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