Schedule of Events
| Thursday, June 24, 2010 | |
| 8:00 PM – | Three Shouts On a Hill |
| Last year we added a pre-conference opportunity to laugh and play. It was so successful that we decided to continue it and establish a tradition! Tonight we share in presenting the world premiere of Jo Walton's play version of the Irish legend of the Sons of Tuirean: Three Shouts On a Hill. | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| Friday, June 25, 2010 | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Greetings |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | What should I be reading (that I'm not)? |
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An open discussion of what's exciting out there: not limited to fantasy or
genre at all! We want to know what's getting us jazzed in the world of books
and web stuff. Notes / Book List | |
| Tom Whitmore, with much audience help | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | How do you know when a story's going wrong? |
| An editor, a writer, a reviewer and a reader talk about how to tell when a story is going wrong, and what to do about it, from their perspectives. | |
| Steven Brust, Karen G. Anderson, Teresa Nielsen Hayden | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Dinner |
| Looking for dining companions? Join the Hospitality folks in Dover, the hotel restaurant. | |
| 8:00 PM – | Getting to know you gatherings |
| Join Steven in the Smokers Den for Philosophy and Fun, Peggy in Courtyard Ballroom A for Singing and Silliness, Tom in Courtyard Ballroom B for Musings and Meanderings, or Janet in the ConSuite for Munching and Mischief... or stroll among them all. Other amusements will undoubtedly ensue. | |
| Saturday, June 26, 2010 | |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Mixing genres |
| We've had a raft of different ways of mashing up genres over recent years. Fantasy with rivets, dragons with novels of manners, future-setting fantasy — what's coming next, and why does this sort of synthesis work well (when it does)? | |
| Jo Walton, Elizabeth Bear, Teresa Nielsen Hayden | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Beyond promotion: Reputation management |
| Why is it wrong to put a stack of your books in front of you at a panel? What is effective at a convention in terms of promotion, and why? How do you get a reputation, and what do you do once you have one? | |
| Steven Brust, Ctein, Patrick Nielsen Hayden | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| With your new friends or old ones | |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | How does the medium affect the story? |
| There are many ways to tell stories. Why choose graphic novel over song? What are the advantages of keeping it short or making it long? Why has epic poetry pretty much died? | |
| Adam Stemple, Elise Matthesen, Elizabeth Bear | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Fantasy vs. Progress |
| Sarah Monette had a blog post which began a discussion on the nature of progress in fantasy, and how conservative fantasy tends to be. Of course we had to continue it. | |
| Sarah Monette, Marissa Lingen, Adam Stemple, Patrick Nielsen Hayden | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Submit, or die! |
| What keeps you from submitting and what keeps your submissions from being seen by the right people? Includes stories about the story an author won't submit. | |
| Tom Whitmore, Elise Matthesen, Skyler White | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Dinner |
| We won't tell you where to go, but we'll recommend some places you might want to try. | |
| 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Second thoughts: The morning after |
| The aftermath of Food, Fashion, and Fornication. Happily ever after? I don't think so. Unruly, lively discussion of what happens next. | |
| Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Jon Singer, Elise Matthesen, Karen G. Anderson | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 | |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Point of view: How not to suck |
| Who's telling this story, anyway? Why should I care? Does it make a difference? | |
| Jo Walton, Sarah Monette, Steven Brust | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Brunch |
| Planned with consideration for our various dietary concerns. | |
| Terrace Room | |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | The new cliches |
| When does something change from a fad to a cliche? What's jumped the shark recently (besides "jumping the shark")? | |
| Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Tom Whitmore | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | But that's a different panel... |
| Everything you wanted to discuss that got tabled until now. | |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |
| 4:00 PM – | Farewells |
| Courtyard Ballroom | |