At long last a LiveJournal by Jeri Smith-Ready

Flycon 2009 is still going strong, with one more full day (plus some) of programming. Here's the full schedule, complete with links to each panel "room."

***NOTE: Anyone can participate--you don't need a login or a LiveJournal username or a secret handshake. Just reply to a response to comment on it, or start a new thread with a new question.***

My schedule today (copied and updated from Thursday's post, all times Eastern US):

Sunday 7am: I WOULD NEVER HAVE SAID THAT AND YOU KNOW IT. Writers breaking the fourth wall to interview characters: Some writers find interviewing characters and having characters ‘talk’ in posts fun, helpful, and others find it awful. Some readers love it when writers do it on blogs, others look away and pretend it never happened. Discuss character building and breaking the fourth wall. With Stephanie Gildart.

Sunday 11am: Families in fantasy. Many heroes are unmarried orphans without siblings or children. Why this is so common and what do writers do when they do give their heroes families? With Julia Rios and Devon Monk.

Sunday 7pm: Evolution of the vampire in fiction. Panel: Does it say anything about our culture, or just something about the shift in who likes to read about them? With Stephanie Gildart and Pati Nagle.

Sunday 11pm: Writing: Alpha and Beta Reading Process #2. With JC Runolfson, Moondancer Drake, and Pati Nagle. (note: this is basically the same panel as yesterday repeated at two different times, not a part one and part two continuation.)

Hope to see you there!

Flycon 2009 is in full swing! Here's the full schedule, complete with links to each panel "room."

***NOTE: Anyone can participate--you don't need a login or a LiveJournal username or a secret handshake. Just reply to a response to comment on it, or start a new thread with a new question.***

I have a few items today (copied and updated from Thursday's post--all times are Eastern US):

Saturday 8am: Editing. Writers on editing, editors on editing, writers on editors editing, and editors on writers editing. With Sharyn Lilley, Deva Fagan, and Sue Lange.

Saturday 10am: Recommend Me Something Good: Do recommendations work? Panel: the role of social media in driving recommendations & buying in relevant genres; roles of book reviewers online, pro and amateur. Do recommendations work? How directly do authors like their readers to talk back? With Sue Lange, Kasey Mackenzie, and Tamara Mazzei.

Saturday 11am: Writing: Alpha and Beta Reading Process #1 Panel: What are Alpha Readers? What are Beta readers? Who uses them, and how well do they work? The usefulness of writing partners, writing groups, and self-editing. With Megan Crewe, Chris Dolley, and Moondancer Drake.

Hope to see you there!

Flycon 2009 is officially on! This international, round-the-clock online convention began at midnight tomorrow Sydney, Australia time. (Hmm, that's weird--it "began tomorrow"?)

Here's the full schedule, complete with links to each panel "room."

***NOTE: Anyone can participate--you don't need a login or a LiveJournal username or a secret handshake. Just reply to a response to comment on it, or start a new thread with a new question.***

I have a few items today (copied from yesterday's post, but now with new, linky goodness):

Friday noon: When is Young Adult not really for Young Adults? Panel: sex and violence are standards now, what makes a young adult novel for kids? And what makes one really for adults? With Jana Oliver, Tessa Gratton, Jackson Pearce, and David Macinnis Gill. **And special guest: my phenom agent Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown, Ltd., an expert in YA publishing, will stop by to discuss the topic**

Friday 3pm: Author chat. Just me. And you know, I'll probably give away a prize, because I like to bribe people into pretending to be my friends.

Friday 11pm: Banter: How much fun do you get out of it? Panel: who writes the best banter; favourite bits; when is the wiseass narrator a draw, or a drawback? With Harry J Connolly, JC Runolfson, and Lisa Mantchev.

Hope to see you there!

This weekend I'm attending a science fiction/fantasy convention at my house, and you're all invited! But bring your own punch and pie, because I'm not buying any extra food. Oh, and a tent, because I'm alsonot opening my door.

OR

You could just attend online, like the rest of us. Flycon 2009 is an international, round-the-clock sf/f convention, complete with panels, a dealers' room, and even a costuming track!

How is this possible, you ask? Go to Flycon's LiveJournal community page, where by tomorrow morning there'll be links to each of the panels, author chats, and other activities.

Attendance at panels is open to everyone (well, everyone with a computer and internet connection, which, if you're reading this, includes you).

Here's the full Flycon schedule (note various time zones listed on the left).

Here's my schedule (all times are US Eastern):

( Be there or be an equilateral parallelogram. )

Hope to "see" you there! Bring punch and pie.

This weekend I'm going to be taking part in Flycon 2009, an international, round-the-clock science fiction/fantasy convention here on LiveJournal. There'll be author chats, tons of awesome panels, and even workshops. You can check out the preliminary schedule here.

I'll list my full (and I mean full) schedule in a separate post once it's finalized tomorrow, but we need more participants in one particular panel. Friday at noon Eastern time is When is Young Adult literature not really for young adults? Here's the description:

Sex and violence are standard now—what really makes a young adult novel for kids? And what makes one really for adults?

We need more people to sign up for this panel before Wednesday (tomorrow) at noon, or the panel will be dropped, as I'm the only one who volunteered for it who was available at its time. This would give me a sad. I think this would be a great panel for all YA authors, published and nonpublished, as well as avid readers of YA fiction.

If you're interested in this panel, please read this post and leave a comment with your name and a brief bio.

Thanks!