If you’re attending Lunacon this weekend (i.e., tomorrow) you may already be aware that programming has not yet gone out to the participants. This will doubtless make for all sorts of “fun” at the convention.
That’s the bad news. The good news is word has gotten out that individual participants can go online to the same database questionnaire they filled out to become panelists, and find their schedules waiting for them.
Assuming that the schedule there is correct, here’s what I think I’m doing at the con this weekend:
Friday, March 15th:
20:00 – 21:00 | Grand Ballroom ? |Meet the Pros
This wasn’t actually on my schedule, but I’m going to assume there will be such an event, and that I’ll show up for it.
Saturday, March 16th
10:00 – 10:30 | Bartell | Reading
Start your Saturday off by listening to me read from my Nebula Award nominated novella “Barry’s Tale.”
11:00 – 12:00 | Oak | So You Want To Create & Sell an Ebook (M)
Neil Clarke and I talk about the tools, techniques, and best practices involved in creating and distributing ebooks. WARNING: It’s extremely likely this panel has been canceled and/or removed from my schedule.
1:00 – 2:00 | Poplar | Less Sh*tty Second Drafts (M)
Russ Colchamiro, Laura Anne Gilman, Michael A. Ventrella, C.E. Lawrence and I will discuss how authors figure out what’s not working in a manuscript and what might be likely to fix it.
2:00 – 3:00 | Poplar | Finding a Needle in the Slushpile (M)
Despite the somewhat unspecific title, this panel is actually supposed to be about finding the gold amidst the dross of self-published fiction. It’s a thankless task and I will have April Grey, Neal Levin, Mike McPhail, and Andrew Porter grumbling along with me.
Sunday, March 17th
10:00 – 11:00 | Westchester Assembly | Autographing
Please bring me something to sign as I hang out with Tim Rodriguez and James Daniel Ross.
11:00 – 12:00 | Poplar | Generic Alien Language Panel (M)
Walter Stutzman, Ariel Cinii, and I will start with the basic question of how to represent alien language in fiction and jump off from there on related issues in language, linguistics, and philology.
12:00 – 1:00 | Birch | Hugo Worthy Fiction
Lisa Padol, Byron P. Connell, Alex Shvartsman and I blow smoke about what we think will make the final ballot (assuming it hasn’t been announced by this time).
My shoulder-riding plushie, Barry, has once again been given no programming. First the college of cardinals slight him, and now this. Nonetheless, he will be in attendance in his role as the convention’s unofficial, eponymous, Nebula nominee. Mind you, he doesn’t know what any of those words mean.
If you’d like to see it in person, I plan on sporting it at the Worldcon (aka LoneStarCon3) in San Antonio this summer.
