{"id":2511,"date":"2015-08-28T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2015-08-28T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:15:19","slug":"my-dragoncon-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"My Dragon*Con Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My final Dragon*Con schedule, as of yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have an hour reading slot on Friday at 5:30 pm (a time when, frankly, I don&#8217;t expect many people to show up.\u00a0\u00a0 Sensible people will be eating an early supper.\u00a0\u00a0 Gratitude will be abundant for those who do show.\u00a0 Surprise me by stuffing the room with avid fans and something amazing may happen. )<\/p>\n<p>For anyone interested, since I don&#8217;t have a new book out this year,\u00a0 my donations to the charity auction will be Tuckerizations (you get to be a character in something), one for an appearance in a Vatta book, and one for an appearance in a Paksworld story to be published (eventually) as part of a collection.\u00a0\u00a0 More details available at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the schedule, read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b> Reading: Elizabeth Moon<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> Fri 05:30 pm <b>Location:<\/b> Edgewood &#8211; Hyatt (<b>Length:<\/b> 1)<\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b> Strong Women in SF<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> Sat 02:30 pm <b>Location:<\/b> Embassy A-B &#8211; Hyatt (<b>Length:<\/b> 1)<br \/>\n<b>Description:<\/b> Strong women abound in science fiction. We talk about faves &amp; what makes them strong.<\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b> Dragon Con Guest of Honor Awards Banquet<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> Sat 07:00 pm <b>Location:<\/b> Regency VI &#8211; VII &#8211; Hyatt (<b>Length:<\/b> 2.5)<br \/>\n<b>Description:<\/b> We honor our 2015 Guests of Honor and present the Julie Award and Hank Reinhardt Fandom Award.<\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b> Autograph Session<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> Sun 11:30 am <b>Location:<\/b> International Hall South &#8211; Marriott (<b>Length:<\/b> 1)<\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b> Monsters &amp; Mayhem<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> Sun 01:00 pm <b>Location:<\/b> Embassy D-F &#8211; Hyatt (<b>Length:<\/b> 1)<br \/>\n<b>Description:<\/b> Plot developments that make readers beg for more\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtwists and obstacles to keep us reading.<\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b> Just Kill Me Now: Self-editing<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> Sun 08:30 pm <b>Location:<\/b> Embassy D-F &#8211; Hyatt (<b>Length:<\/b> 1)<br \/>\n<b>Description:<\/b> The painful task of self-editing &amp; how it makes for better writers &amp; sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My final Dragon*Con schedule, as of yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have an hour reading slot on Friday at 5:30 pm (a time when, frankly, I don&#8217;t expect many people to show up.\u00a0\u00a0 Sensible people will be eating an early supper.\u00a0\u00a0 Gratitude will be abundant for those who do show.\u00a0 Surprise me by stuffing the room with avid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,53],"tags":[82,112],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-dragoncon","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}