Yesterday, I attended the first day of Capclave, the Washington, D.C. area local science fiction convention. This has been my local convention ever since I started to sell stories. I haven’t been writing much the last few years and so I haven’t been attending conventions, but I decided to attend this convention for two reasons:…
It has been a few years since I’ve attended science fiction conventions, mainly because I haven’t been writing much. But, I will be at my local convention, Capclave, this coming weekend, October 18-20, in Rockville, Maryland. Robert J. Sawyer and Martha Wells are guests of honor at this convention. I am looking forward to being…
he second day1 of Capclave was nearly as fun as the first2. I was a bit more tired on Sunday than I was on Saturday, and not long before my last two panels of the day, I had a energy crash. I made it through and the panels were fun, but boy, was I wiped…
Just a couple of items for bleary-eyed folks on Monday morning (a holiday in this part of town, although not for me). I am on the current episode (#156) of the SF Signal Podcast. Along with Derek Johnson, Stina Leicht, Jaym Gates, Justin Landon and Patrick Hester, we discuss whether or not optimistic science fiction…
One of my goals in 2011 was to “attend at least one [science fiction] convention as a participant.” I started attending science fiction conventions in 2007 after the sale of my first story to Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. The first convention I attended was RavenCon in April 2007 and it set the bar…
I spent most of Saturday and Sunday attending Capclave 2011 at its new hotel up in Gaithersberg, Maryland. Saturday was an experiment for us. Kelly was spending the day at a bachelorette party, going from one winery to the next and I would be at the convention. We had a babysitter staying with the Little…
I will be at Capclave, October 14-16 up in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I’ll be at the convention most of Saturday and Sunday and I will be on the following panels: Saturday, 3pm: Will books survive–and in what form? Sunday, 10am: Short fiction: why bother? (As moderator) Otherwise, I’ll be hanging out at the convention, sitting in…
As I mentioned in my previous post, here is my tentative convention schedule for 2011. Obviously this can change, but this is where I am planning on being: RavenCon (Richmond, VA), April 8-10 Nebula Awards Weekend (Washington, DC), May 19-22 Balticon (Baltimore, MD), May 27-30 Readercon (Burlington, MA), July 14-17 Capclave (Rockville, MD), October 14-16…
I spent Friday evening and all day Saturday at Capclave, the local science fiction convention put on by the Washington Science Fiction Association. I like Capclave because it centers around short fiction, which is what I write, and avoids media-related science fiction and fantasy. I had a lot of fun at Capclave. What follows is…