I’ll be heading off to Dulles in about 20 hours to fly to San Diego for World Fantasy Con, and I realize I haven’t yet told you where you’ll be able to find me. (Well, aside from all those Man v. Food restaurants, anyway.) So here’s my official schedule.

You’ll note I only have one panel. That’s because WFC has the highest ratio of writers, editors, artists, and critics of any convention, and so unless you’re one of the Guests of Honor, you only get one slot—you’re allowed to choose a panel or a reading, but not both.

Here’s what I’ve been assigned:

Metafiction
Saturday, October 29, 10:00 p.m., Pacific 2/3
Taking literature to the next level, metafiction exposes the fictional illusion and openly addresses the devices of fiction. It takes many forms: stories within stories, footnotes that continue the story, characters aware that they are characters, and authors commenting on and even entering their own stories. Going back at least as far at the Canterbury Tales, these devices are particularly popular of late. What do they add to the reading (and writing) experience? Is the trend just self-indulgence?
with Victoria Schwab, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Rick Wilber (moderator)

Unofficially, of course, you’ll find me many other places, such as listening to Nalo Hopkinson, Robert Shearman, Eileen Gunn and others read, and the panels on “How to Survive the Coming Zombie War” (how could I not?) and “Founders of Steampunk,” and the conversation between Neil Gaiman and Connie Willis …

… and then there’s the bar.

See you there!