World Fantasy Schedule

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Here's my schedule for World Fantasy:

Thursday 8:00 PM
The Bathroom: Necessities of World-Building

Friday 11:00 AM
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading. I'll be one of the ten authors doing a five minute reading.

Friday 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Mass Autographing. I'll have lizards, postcards of the new bookcover, and will cheerfully autograph anything that isn't nailed down.

Saturday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LJ party @ Lobby Bar

Saturday 8:00 PM
A Maze Demands a Minotaur


Thursday 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Bathroom: Necessities of World-Building
Just as a livable house needs space for the mundanities of daily life, a good fantasy world needs to provide a workable society. How do you create a world with a reasonable economy, food supply, toothbrushes, and plumbing? After you've done your research, how much of it do you show your reader?

Elizabeth Bear, Patricia Bray, Charles Coleman Finlay, Sarah Monette, Kristine Smith (M)


Friday 11:00 AM - Noon
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading. I'll be one of the ten authors doing a five minute reading. It's a great chance to sample different authors in a short period of time, plus this will be my first public reading from THE FIRST BETRAYAL.

Friday 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Mass Autographing. Stop by to say "Hi" and admire the lizards. I should have postcards of the new bookcover available.

Saturday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LJ party @ Lobby Bar

Saturday 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A Maze Demands a Minotaur
The surrounding architecture shapes our expectations of the creatures we'll find within. A minotaur is expected at the heart of a stone maze, but the Empire State Building requires a very different monster. The panelists will explore a variety of fictional and real places, and the monsters and stories that belong in them. How does architecture shape reader expectations of the creatures (and stories) that inhabit a world? How can writers use these expectations to add depth to a story, or play with them to surprise the reader?

Carol Berg, Patricia Bray (M), David D. Levine, Michael Shea, Walter Jon Williams

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Group think is that there is an LJ get together at the hotel bar on Saturday afternoon, which will be totally inadequate for our purposes. I believe this is working on the theory that if enough of us LJ'ers declare that this is happening, it will be so.

I'll be there, although I may be a bit late or have to leave early-- trying to hook up with a biking buddy who lives in Madison, and so far it looks like Saturday afternoon is our best bet.