My Dragon*Con schedule!

Title: 15-Minute Mentor Session 2

Description: A chance for budding authors to talk one-on-one with a successful industry professional about business, promotion, the writing process, & career advice. Sign up in the Writer's Track. (Embassy E/F)
Panelists: Sean H Taylor, Robert J. Sawyer, J.D. Blackrose, Jess L. M. Anderson
Time: Fri 02:30 pm
Location: Embassy G Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Title: Pitch Practice

Description: Unsure whether your book pitch is 'good enough'? Know it could be better, but not sure how to improve? Come to this panel, where you can give your pitch to professionals who will offer suggestions on how to change or improve it to better your odds of a successful pitch! Be brave, young padawans!
Panelists: Sean H Taylor(M), Rachel A. Brune, Steve Saffel, John G. Hartness, Toni Weisskopf, D.J. Butler
Time: Sat 01:00 pm
Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Title: Reading Session: Sean Taylor

Description: Hear Sean read from his new unreleased mystery novel, Another Dangerous Driver, and from his collection of dark/horror tales, A Crowd in Babylon.
Panelists: Sean H Taylor
Time: Sat 05:30 pm
Location: Learning Center Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Title: Writing and Selling Short Stories

Description: Writing shorter works can be different from writing novels, with less room for fiddling around with character or plot. Writing must be concise, and each word has to be necessary. Writing short stories can give faster gratification, too. So, how does it all work? Our pros can answer that question!
Panelists: Sean H Taylor(M), Ian Randal Strock, Bethanne Kim, Phillip Pournelle, Kevin A Davis, Violette L Meier
Time: Sat 08:30 pm
Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Title: Autograph Session

Description: Authors signing books. Yay! Jim Butcher too?! Holy crap!
Panelists: Cassandra Quave, Michael Chatfield, Jim Butcher, Sean H Taylor
Time: Sun 11:30 am
Location: Overlook Westin (Length: 1 Hour)

My Tentative Dragon*Con Schedule

I will also have a reading and a signing, but they haven't been scheduled yet. I'll have the official schedule closer to the event.

Title: 15 Minute Mentor Session 2

Description: A chance for budding authors to talk one-on-one with a successful industry professional about business, promotion, the writing process, & career advice. Sign up in the Writer's Track. (Embassy E/F)

Panelists: Sean Taylor, Robert J. Sawyer, J.D. Blackrose, Jess L. M. Anderson

Time: Fri 02:30 pm

Location: Embassy G Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Title: Pitch Practice

Description: Unsure whether your book pitch is 'good enough'? Know it could be better, but not sure how to improve? Come to this panel, where you can give your pitch to professionals who will offer suggestions on how to change or improve it to better your odds of a successful pitch! Be brave, young padawans!

Panelists: Sean Taylor(M), Rachel A. Brune, Steve Saffel, John G. Hartness, Toni Weisskopf, D.J. Butler

Time: Sat 01:00 pm

Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Title: Writing and Selling Short Stories

Description: Writing shorter work can be different from writing novels with less room for fiddling around with character or plot. Writing must be concise, and each word has to be necessary. Writing short stories can give faster gratification, too. So, how does it all work? Our pros can answer that question!

Panelists: Sean Taylor(M), Ian Randal Strock, Bethanne Kim, Phillip Pournelle, Kevin A Davis, Violette L Meier

Time: Sat 08:30 pm

Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

Pulpsters on Pulp: From Dragon*Con TV 2021

 

[Link] The Long Con: Conventions & Conferences

by Andrea Judy

I love conventions. I've been going to them for over ten years. I started at small anime conventions and graduated to DragonCon and GenCon in recent years. When many writers approach me for advice on what they can do to improve their craft, I usually tell them to find a convention with a good literary track, go to the panels and take notes.

Many fantasy and science-fiction conventions have a series of panels (a track) devoted to writing and publishing. You can learn a lot from listening to professionals talk about their craft and better yet, it can be a great chance to meet other writers and network. Many of the writers that come to conventions are happy to talk shop with you and answer any questions you have.

Now, there are also a lot of writing conferences, and I've been to quite a few of those and they are also a great resource for writers at many levels in their careers. I've found the main differences between a convention and a conference is...

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Dragon*Con, here I come!

 

Well, tomorrow begins the ordeal of geekdom that is Dragon*Con. That time of year where I prepare for meeting fans and eventually coming down with the con crud. 

So don't expect to see me much around these parts during the con (other than the pre-scheduled articles), but I hope to have a full con report shortly after the ordeal is over and normality reigns again.