Just a face in the crowd...

Swiped from kristine_smith

Sharon is the #20 most common female first name

0.522% of females in the US are named Sharon.

Around 639450 US females are named Sharon!

source: namestatistics.com

Lee is the #24 most common last name

0.22% of last names in the US are Lee.

Around 550000 people have Lee as a last name!

source: namestatistics.com

One cannot of course help noticing, when one is ego-surfing, just how many Sharon Lees there are populating the internets. What's interesting is how many of us are writers, artists, reporters, professors.

Lee and Miller Preliminary Boskone Schedule: Panels

We have achieved a Boskone Preliminary Schedule! This will be followed in good time by a Final Schedule, including such things as kaffeklatsches, readings, autographings and the ever-popular etcetera. Presented as a public service for those who like to start planning their panel attendance early.

Friday 6pm How to Improve Conventions: A Pre-Gripe Session
Vince Docherty, Mary Kay Kare, Steve Miller, Priscilla Olson

Friday 8pm Tracking History
Patricia Bray, Rosemary Kirstein, Sharon Lee, Timothy Liebe, David Weber
Any large multi-volume work (like the Honorverse) gradually builds
up an internal history of its own which the writer will probably
want to keep consistent. How is this done? Is it worth doing? Is it
worth agonizing over? Does consistency with previous stories impede
the writing of new ones? Compare and contrast the Honorverse with
other complex future histories such as H. Beam Piper's or Poul
Anderson's.

Saturday noon The Storyteller's Bowl: Making Money Off the Web
Eve Ackerman, MaryAnn Johanson, Sharon Lee, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Trish Wilson
Old idea, new technology: some writers are cutting out the middleman
and publishing straight to the web via the "storyteller's bowl"
model. In this arrangement, a chapter is posted once subscriptions
reach a pre-set $um. Is this model good for the long term? Is it
always successful? Should you try it for your next project?

Saturday 3pm Spear Carriers Are People, Too
Patricia Bray, Bruce Coville, Don D'Ammassa, Sharon Lee, Paul Park
How do you make a walk-on character rounded and memorable? Can a
supporting player ever be so striking that he, she, or it draws too
much attention from the main cast members? What minor portaits from
SF, fantasy, or horror books or movies do we still recall with
fondness (or other strong emotion)?


Sunday 11am Twenty Years of the Liaden Universe
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Agent of Change, the first
Liaden Universe book. Eleven books, numerous stories, and a couple
million words later, the series' authors, two leading lights of New
England science fiction, host a retrospective of where the time went
-- plus where the series has been and is likely to go. They may also
touch on topics such as writing with your life partner, how to mix
strong elements of romance with bleak themes of savage warfare and
the death of universes, and the promise and problems of electronic
publication. No pronunciation of the full name of any Clutch Turtle
will be attempted.


Sunday noon Working in the Shadows: Influences
Bruce Coville, Steve Miller, Dean Morrissey, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, David Weber
It's said that only a few thousand people bought the Velvet
Underground's first album -- but every one of them started a
band. What creative people in our genres have had similar influence on
our panelists? On the field as a whole? Do influences from outside
the genre count? How about bad influences? Can one be influenced
without imitating? As leaders in their fields, how do our panelists try
to influence others?

Why does time go faster on the weekends than during the week?

Spent the first part of the weekend reading through the first hundred pages of Longeye. Found the place where the story-so-far wobbled, and unkinked it, then added some new words. Did the interview in Second Life, in which technology again asserted its superiority over the rolannis of this world, and! I did some filing before the pile fell off the top of the file cabinet and killed somebody. Also found time to watch Arsenic and Old Lace, which I had not previously seen. Let me just say? I adore Aunt Abby.

Those few things accomplished, I look up to find that it's Sunday evening, a school night, so I cannot stay up until two a.m. writing. Or, I could. But it wouldn't be pretty, tomorrow. Oh, my, no...

Snow called for Monday night and snow and ice on Tuesday. Didn't we do that last week?


Progress on Longeye:

30462 / 100000 words.
30% done!