Once again, I look forward to returning to my local convention this year, Balticon 53 in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor over Memorial Day weekend. And by local, I mean that I literally worked 2 blocks away from the host hotel for over 10 years.
It will be super easy to find me this year, since for the majority of the convention I will be hanging out in the dealer room! I will be selling my books, along with other titles from my publisher Raw Dog Screaming Press.
I am on programming as well, so here are the other places you’ll be able to find me:
Saturday
- 4 PM: After Avengers: Endgame (panel)
- Did Avengers: Endgame deliver on the buildup promised by earlier films? How do you feel about the prior films after all this has happened?
- With Kim the ComicBookGoddess (moderator), Dame Dahlia, Liz Dukes, and D’Manda Martini
- 6 PM: The Blurring of Genre Borders (panel)
- Can you easily tell whether a work is science fiction, fantasy, horror, or literary? If you can’t, is it a good or a bad thing?
- With Scott Roche, Sarah Pinsker, L.H. Moore, L. Marie Wood, and Roberta Rogow (I’m moderating!)
- 8 PM: How to Self-Edit That Lousy First Draft (panel)
- Panelists discuss techniques for editing when you don’t have an outside reader to help.
- With Joshua Bilmes (moderator), Jay Smith, Karen Osbourne, Scott Edelman, and Ian Randal Strock
Sunday
- 10 AM: From Fanfic to Pro (panel)
- You’re confident at creating coherent sentences, and have become good at building upon the worlds of others. You have the discipline of writing pretty much in your grasp. How do you start creating characters that don’t feel like you’re borrowing them? How do you movie into worldbuilding when it wasn’t necessary before? Come talk to authors who have written both.
- With T. Eric Bakutis, K.M. Szpara, Vivian Shaw, and Steven Howell Wilson (I’m moderating!)
- 12 PM: Autograph session
- With Jennifer R. Povey
Monday
- 12 PM: Readings
- With Gail Z. Martin and T. Eric Bakutis
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