Here is my panel schedule for FenCon, coming up this weekend (Sept. 25-27, 2015) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If you've never been to this con before, you're missing out! Click here for more information.

PANELS

Saturday 11:00 AM - Trinity VI - "My Other Job"“Don’t give up your day job” is no longer a joke, but a sound piece of advice these ( Read more... )

Rather than re-paste it here (because it's late and I'm too tired to re-check all the formatting), here is a link to my somewhat lengthy Worldcon report ( Read more... )

EDITED TO ADD: Alas, no ArmadilloCon after all, due to an infected wisdom tooth. Surgery on Monday. Wish me luck!Looking forward to ArmadilloCon in Austin this coming weekend. I've got some fun panels, two of which are timely considering I'm doing a lot of reading this days, especially short fiction ( Read more... )

FenCon VI takes place September 18-20, 2009 in North Dallas/Addison. Keith R.A. DeCandido is a special guest, which will be fun. It's rare that I get to see non-Texas/Oklahoma friends at a Texas con.

My schedule is as follows. Here's guessing Keith and I will be sharing a few panels!

• Friday 8:00 pm - Trinity 1/2. "Reboot to the Head: The New ( Read more... )

The Montreal Worldcon is just about two weeks away! My Worldcon programming schedule is currently as follows:

• Friday 12:30 - 2:00 PM - P-524C - "Subverting the Canon." DD Barant, Amy Sisson, Lucien Soulban, Stephen Saffel. Writers playing in someone else’s sandbox can’t help but bring their own sensibilities. How do writers of media tie-ins ( Read more... )

I just wanted to draw folks' attention to an article by Patience Wieland that's up at Strange Horizons this week, titled "Let's Stop Conning Ourselves". It's about genre conventions that promise and don't deliver, breaking contracts, stranding guests, etc. This will be of particular interest to Texas and especially DFW fans, since FedConUSA is ( Read more... )

ConDFW is coming up this weekend. This is always one of our favorite cons, and is held in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. (Funny how the drive between Houston and DFW is so much more pleasant without a hurricane at your back!)

My con schedule is as follows:

• Saturday - 11 am - Thunder before Lightning: Researching reality (Canterbury). Hosted by Amy ( Read more... )