Mary Robinette will be a panelist at COSine 2025 in Colorado Springs, CO from January 24th-26th. You can register to attend the con and find out more details here.

Schedule

Friday

5-6pm: Main Events
Being Cruel to Your Characters
You love your characters and want them to live their best lives. But there isn’t a huge market for Esog the Barbarian Has a Nice Day Down at the Shops. Our panelists will discuss torturing characters for the sake of story.
Connie Willis (M), Evans, Kowal, Sartucci, Watt-Evans

Saturday

10-11am: Main Events
Making Yourself Write
How to motivate yourself to actually put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).
Kowal (M), Dornbusch, G. Engel-Cox, Guthrie, Lawrence

3-4pm: Cripple Creek
Balancing Message and Story
You’re working on your new novel Spiders Creep Me Out and Should All Die and you are starting to worry you are not being subtle enough with your underlying message of spidercide… Our panelists will discuss the merits of having a message and how to get it across without being preachy.
Kowal (M), Barnes, Brazee, Connie Willis, Watt-Evans

5:30-7pm: Atrium
Author Signing
Come by and get your books autographed by GoH Lawrence Watt-Evans and the many other authors at the convention, and see if you’ve won anything in the charity raffle. There will be some treats.

Sunday

1-2pm: Front Range
Genre Bending
Our panelists will discuss mixing and entirely subverting genre.
Berger (M), Boop, Gaffen, Kowal, Watt-Evans

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