Readercon! In a few weeks! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN

Jun. 24th, 2012 at 8:23 PM

Long time no see my lovelies! It's been madness here. However! Here's my Readercon schedule. (I know, I don't sign up for a lot of stuff. My problem is I'd infinitely rather hang out with everyone I hardly ever get to see than soapbox on some panel. But I'm working on it! Slowly but surely!)

It doesn't say, but I'm co-hosting that Mythic Poetry reading with

time_shark. So come to that! It'll be fun!

Also also, because a couple of people have asked, if you'd like to order caramels from my etsy shop and have them delivered at the con, let me know and I'll throw together a custom listing wherein you don't have to pay anything for shipping. Win-win!

Friday July 13

11:00 AM NH Group Reading: Mythic Poetry. Mary Agner, Mike Allen, Erik Amundsen, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Gwynne Garfinkle, April Grant, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Adrienne J. Odasso, Julia Rios, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe. Over the past decade, speculative poetry has increasingly turned toward the mythic in subject matter, with venues such as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, Cabinet des Fées, Jabberwocky, and the now-defunct Journal of the Mythic Arts showcasing a new generation of poets who've redefined what this type of writing can do. Come to the reading and hear new and classic works from speculative poetry's trend-setters.

6:00 PM G What Writers Want. Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Nicholas Kaufmann, James Patrick Kelly (leader), Nicole Kornher-Stace, Peter Straub. Genre writing is not a career known for its well-defined path. There are goalposts—bestseller lists, movie deals, inspiring reams of fan fiction—but do they sum up all that genre writers aim for? This panel dares to go deeper and uncover authors' true ambitions, whether they dream of exemplifying or transcending the genre, turning genre itself into art, being named a Grand Master, outselling everyone, or all of these—and to examine how those ambitions might be achieved.

Saturday July 14

3:00 PM NH Group Reading: Ideomancer Speculative Fiction. Mike Allen, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amanda Downum, George Galuschak, Claire Humphrey, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Kenneth Schneyer, Sonya Taaffe. Authors and poets read work from Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, one of the longest-running speculative fiction webzines still publishing.