Public service announcement kindathing
Friday – I’m arriving mid-morning/lunchtime and looking forward to a day of being in various audiences for some interesting programme items as well as helping staff the EightSquared 2013 bid desk. I won’t be sitting up too late in the bar because…
Saturday 10 am (Edwardian) ‘Sufficiently Advanced Magic’ – discussing the role of magic in fantasy fiction, with Marcus Gipps Stephen Deas, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Christ Wooding and Shana Worthen
Saturday 11 am (Commonwealth) ‘How pseudo do you like your medieval?’ with Anne C Perry, Jacey Bedford, Anne Lyle and George RR Martin
Saturday 12 pm (Commonwealth) ‘Gender parity on panels at conventions’ with Paul Cornell, Farah Mendelsohn, Emma Peel, Kari Sperring and Kat Takenaka
(and then some lunch!)
Saturday 5 pm (Royal) ‘How Not to Suppress Women’s Writing’ – I’m moderating and very interested to hear what Penny Hill, Amy McCulloch, Ian Sales and Tricia Sullivan have to say – and I have been gathering a good deal of info in the past few weeks. If you’ve had an email from me – and you know who you are – many thanks.
Sat 9 pm – I’ll be signing in the Winchester Room
Sunday 11 am (Room 12) – Eastercon 2013 and 2014 bid session – I’ll be there with the 2013 EightSquared Bid Committee, alongside the Satellite 4 2014 team – come along and see what you think of plans for the next couple of years.
Sunday 2 pm (Winchester) – A Fantasy Clarke Award – discussing an entirely theoretical shortlist with NIall Harrison, Nic Clarke, David Hebblethwaite, Erin Horakova and Edward James.
Sunday 6pm – Commonwealth – Having had the honour to judge the James White Award (short story competition) this year, in conjunction with Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Andy Cox and Andy Hedgecock of Interzone, I’ll be at the BSFA Awards.
Sunday 8 pm – I’ll be in the Tetworth Room signing session.
Monday – once again, I’ll be enjoying the convention without programme responsibilities. Or sitting at a con desk.
Then we’ll be heading home for a Chinese takeaway.
Hello,
I just wanted to say thanks to the judges for their work on the James White award, I failed to say that on the day.
Also, I think I failed to shake your hand. I hope I didn’t behave too strangely, I wasn’t entirely in my right state of mind 🙂
Anyways, thanks very much to everyone involved.
Colum
actually I think you were remarkably together for someone winning an award. And it was very well deserved. As I said at the time, we the judges agreed that we expect to see all the shortlisted writers appearing in print from now on.
I really enjoyed the ‘How pseudo do you like your medieval?’ panel.
You and Jacey spoke particularly well on the subject, I felt (or perhaps my own opinons on the matter were most closely voiced by the two of you…{g}).
Teddy
thank you kindly 🙂