I have been attending so many virtual SFF conventions lately (right now I'm listening to a panel about contemporary Gothic fiction), and tomorrow I'll be sharing a reading with @LydaMorehouse (Does tagging even work on Dreamwidth? I'm out of practice. Let's find out.) and Pat Harrigan! And I just got my market list update out.

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We are in the thick of the part of the year known as "convention season." This is a mixed blessing for my reading list. Reading books is panel prep! It counts as working! On the other hand, I try to keep distractions out of my reading list and so there are all kinds of wonderfully tempting books that I'm postponing reading for the next couple of ( Read more... )

I'm an invited local pro at CONvergence, and these are the panels I'll be on this year! Tell me--what questions do you have on these topics? What concerns would you like to see addressed?

Friday, July 1

Risk of Going NowhereAs a safety and headline driven nation, how will we explore dangerous, distant places that are inherently unsafe without ( Read more... )

I had all kinds of plans to be wonderfully productive and social etc. this week, and then I was caught by The Sick that had Phil the previous two weeks. It seems to be proceeding according to the same schedule, too. After a week of being sick, I feel normal-with-congestion some of the time, and then The Sick hits me over the head and I feel woozy ( Read more... )

Lots of works start off promising something, but never deliver. Why is it important that books/movies/whatever keep the promises that they make? Panelists: Melinda Snodgrass, Sean M. Murphy, Caroline Stevermer, Abra Staffin-Wiebe ( Read more... )

These are my brief outline notes for the apocalyptic fiction panel that I was on. The actual panel may or may not have covered most of this ( Read more... )

CONvergence is not the most thinky of the conventions I attend, but I do have a smattering of notes from panels I watched. And a smattering of unrelated photos.


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This was the most useful (writing-related) panel that I watched. Although it was talking in specific about real, existant London, there were lots of excellent worldbuilding nuggets to take away.

London in Fact and Fiction One effect of the Blitz is that there remain Tudor-era buildings beside the most modern of structures. Construction from ( Read more... )

AKA the year of the 5-hour badge line! CONvergence keeps growing and growing. It's kinda crazy. This year they expanded into I-don't-know-how-many overflow hotels for congoers, they started hosting programming in a secondary hotel as well, and they had the Line of Infamy. As a "participating local pro," I got to pick up my badge in a separate, very ( Read more... )

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!/
I'll CONverge tomorrow/
It's only a day awaaaaay!Ahem ( Read more... )