ArmadilloCon Schedule
Aug. 1st, 2018 12:20 pmWhere and when I'll be at this years ArmadilloCon:
Friday, August 3, I teach in the Writers' Workshop.
Saturday, August 4
Post-Apocalypse & Post-Post-Apocalypse
ArmadilloCon was fun, but very very tiring. Long day teaching in the writing workshop, but seems like everyone was happy with the experience, so yay; then a long day of panels and people. Then another long but shorter day of same. This, for an introvert, exhausts not only body, but everything else. It was wonderful to talk to known and previously unknown peeps alike, and frer people came to my reading, and some people who aren't my close friends said truly lovely and gratifying things about my fiction--thank you! you know who you are.
But I'm back at the dayjob today and...I'm draggin'.
Some links:
The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck (personally, I also get this feeling from something like watching elephants interact, kittens play, from the animal world in general)
Reporters Know What the 'Voter ID' Push Is Really About. Why Don't They Just Say So?
Kickstart Unstuck! We want it to stay around.
Signing
Sat 11:00 AM-Noon Dealers' Room
C. Brown, U. Fung, C. Neill, J. Reisman
Building a Fictional Society from the Ground Up
Sat 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Sabine
A. Bishop, A. Downum, A. Goldsmith, J. Mandala, J. Reisman*, M. Wells
A discussion of worldbuilding in sf/f.
Reading
Sun 10:30 AM-11:00 AM San Marcos Come to my reading! It's on Sunday morning at 10:30! Ha!
Jessica Reisman
Workshopping to Success
Sun 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Sabine
M. Dimond, K. Jewell, S. Leicht*, M. Maresca, N. Moore, J. Reisman
What the ArmadilloCon / Clarion / Clarion West / Odyssey did for me (as a student or a teacher)
Finally, I was going to do a visual on the whiteboard, picked up from writer Rick Bass while I was in grad school. Here's a scribbled approximation:
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ArmadilloCon was fun; saw lots of folks I was glad to see, among them marthawells,
j_cheney,
amysisson and husband Paul (in awesomely impressive NASA kit), plus local peeps galore (who I may see only a couple other times a year). Also got to meet the wonderful Michael Bishop in person, after knowing him through Steven Utley and email for a while. Many of these folks were kind enough to show up for my reading and the excerpt I read of "Nights at the Crimea" from the Bishop and Utley edited Passing for Human was well received. Best question: Are the Zohar movies real, can I go see one? Means I did my job in the story and made it real.
The Broad Universe reading was fun, with great bits from everyone, and a nice haul of giveaway books into the bargain.
Didn't get to as many readings as I wanted, since you always end up socializing and eating instead, but Nancy Kress and Martha Wells were both great (of course).
I took home two pieces of art and a t-shirt, and no books. Blasphemous, I know. But I'm headed to my local indie, Book People, tomorrow, for some book buying.
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Some more Intergalactic Nemesis links, articles and pics:
'Nemesis' returns home, but has big ambitions
http://www.austin360.com/arts/nemesis-returns-home-but-has-big-ambitions-884604.html
Photo gallery:
http://galleries.austin360.com/gallery/intergalactic-nemesis/
Austin Chronicle preview:
'The Intergalactic Nemesis', Zygonian sludgies invade Dell Hall!
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A1073581
and the Arts Eclectic preview on KUT:
http://kut.org/items/show/22259
If you're local and want tix, get 'em here: http://thelongcenter.frontgatesolutions.com/choose.php?lid=42555
My reading timeslot seems to have been changed (or I read it wrong the first time!). Rather than at 1:30pm on Saturday it is at 1:00pm on Saturday.
So, the correct schedule for finding me:
My schedule:
Links Between Fantasy and Horror - Fri 9:00 PM-10:00 PM Trinity
G. Faust*, J. Reisman, S. White, M. Cardin, W. Spencer
A discussion of the commonalities between dark fantasy and horror.
Reading - Sat 1:00 PM-1:30 PM Pecos
Broad Universe Reading - Sat 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Sabine
P. Kitanidis, K. Beutner, P. Jones, A. Latner, J. Cheney, J. Reisman, C. Berg, S. Leicht, G. Oliver, N. Moore
Reading - Sat 1:30 PM-2:00 PM Pecos
Broad Universe Reading - Sat 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Sabine
P. Kitanidis, K. Beutner, P. Jones, A. Latner, J. Cheney, J. Reisman, C. Berg, S. Leicht, G. Oliver, N. Moore
New and Improved ArmadilloCon schedule—Cleans, Brightens, and Gives You That All-Over Feeling of Well-Being!
Sat 1:00 PM-2:00 PM DeWitt - Hollywood and Sci-Fi: The "Romance" Continues
Orive*, Barrett, Smith, Spencer, Wheeler, Reisman
Listen to our panelists as they wax poetic about how
Hollywood continues to ignore the sci-fi genre.
Sat 4:00 PM-5:00 PM de Zavala - What should you have read this year?
Klaw*, Siros, Crider, Lansdale, Mills, Reisman
Our experts will give you the low-down on the best
books in the genre that have come out in the past
year.
Sat 9:00 PM-10:00 PM de Zavala - Women in the SF field
PWells*, November, LMann, Mills, Oliver, Davis, Reisman
When did feminist become such a bad word in the SF
field? Who are some of the up-and-coming female
authors out there that you have to read?
I’ve been added to the Women in the SF field panel, 'cause I am one, and a member of Broad Universe, and I read a lot of SF by women, and I'm smart and stuff. (Actually, probably because they needed another panelist and I told the programmer I was game.)
I won’t be reading at the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading, which is Friday @ 6:00 pm in Robertson, since I have my own reading (just after the marvelous marthawells--come for hers, stay for mine!), but I'll be there to enjoy and applaud my fellow Broads.
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And here’s some links:
In memoriam, a scene from Bergman’s The Seventh Seal on youtube:
(Watch it, really; it’s great.)
This year’s Bulwer-Lytton winners.
And a worthwhile (and demmed cute) PSA featuring Charley the cat on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v