Lee & Miller Mostly Final Boskone Schedules

The ...penultimate Boskone schedule, which I have looked upon and found pleasing. An (M) by a person's name means that person is modertating that particular panel. Suite number for the Friday night SRM Publisher party and Saturday night anniversary bash TBA.

Boskone information, including a complete list of guests is right over here

Friday 6pm How to Improve Conventions: A Pre-Gripe Session
Vince Docherty, Mary Kay Kare, Steve Miller, Priscilla Olson(M)
We can't promise to fix it before this con begins (if you haven't noticed). But our experienced conrunners are eager to receive and exchange ideas on what to do better next time, at this or any other con. More tropical locations? Powered exoskeletal walkers? All Neil Gaiman all the time? Large cash payments to panelists and conrunners? Libertarian-free zones? Footrubs for everbody? Chocolate delivery 24/7?

Friday 8pm Tracking History
Patricia Bray, Rosemary Kirstein (M), 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.

Friday Night: SRM Publisher Open House!

Saturday 11am Kaffeeklatsch Steve Miller

Saturday 12noon The Storyteller's Bowl: Making Money Off the Web
Eve Ackerman(M), 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?

Saturday1:30pm Reading (0.5 hrs)
Steve Miller (tba)

Saturday 3pm Spear Carriers Are People, Too
Patricia Bray, Bruce Coville, Don D'Ammassa(M), 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)?

Saturday 4pm Reading (0.5 hrs)
Sharon Lee reads from Carousel Tides

Saturday Night: Friends of Liad/Val Con and Miri's 20th Anniversary Party!

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 12noon Working in the Shadows: Influences
Bruce Coville, Steve Miller(M), 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?

Sunday 12noon Kaffeeklatsch Sharon Lee

Where was I?

Oh, right.

Yesterday was Friday. We handed in the revisions to Duainfey at a couple minutes shy of 5 o'clock EST. And in this morning's email, there was a note from our editor, saying that we have fulfilled our mission. This is when I love the internet -- and a speed-reading editor, too, yessir.

This morning, we arose early in the minus-single-digits(F), went out into the delicate blue-and-pink morning, motored through the misty curtains of ice-fog, and sat down to breakfast at the South Side Diner. After breaking our fast, we achieved long-overdue haircuts, picked up prescriptions and other needed things at the drugstore, came home to find the Boskone schedule, and more or less got to work.

It's ridiculous how hard it is to remember that today is Saturday. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Oh! And in a completely unlooked-for development, we're expecting snow, total accumulation 4-8 inches. We start watching the skies...now, in fact, and expect to be off-watch around 10 p.m. tomorrow.

Everybody keep warm.

Progress on Longeye:

33575 / 100000 words.
34% done!