I’ll be at my fave conference all weekend, mixing it up with some of the smartest weirdos around.
I’m doing a launch for Therefore Repent! in a party room on Sunday with theculturalgutter.com, and doing these three back to back panels:
How I Did It All Wrong And Got Published Anyway
“Mom’s favorite aphorism was ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’ How you can learn from published authors’ mistakes (and unexpected successes) and tighten up that learning curve. ”
Saturday, 1:00-2:15 P.M.
Capitol B
M: Eileen Gunn, Kathy Steffen, Jim Munroe, Jeannie Bergmann
Here’s Where The Story Ends
“Maureen McHugh’s novels, some say, don’t have proper endings; others think that since life goes on past the end of the novel, the ending’s a matter of the author’s choice. We’ll discuss where to end a novel, how much denoument to give the characters, and other questions of wrapping things up.”
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 P.M.
Wisconsin
M: Jim Munroe, Ellen Kushner, Rachel Swirsky, Maureen McHugh, Paul Stevens
Does It Have to Get Boring Before it Gets Good?
Do you suffer from zombie fatigue? Are you getting superbored with superheroes? Excellent books like World War Z and Soon I Will Be Invincible seem to be the exception to the rule of endless zombie and superpowered crap being produced — but are they? Or does there have to be a pop culture saturation of a certain kind of genre–a laying of the groundwork–before we can get the kind of detailed and finessed dissection and resurrection of tropes that these books pull off?
Saturday, 4:00-5:15 P.M.
Assembly
M: Liz Gorinsky, Jim Munroe, David Schwartz, Nicole Bunge, Ellen Datlow