{"id":21930,"date":"2016-05-21T21:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T01:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21930"},"modified":"2016-05-21T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T02:41:03","slug":"where-youll-find-be-next-weekend-during-balticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/21\/where-youll-find-be-next-weekend-during-balticon\/","title":{"rendered":"Where you&#8217;ll find me next weekend during Balticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balticon&#8217;s coming up next weekend, and it&#8217;s not just <em>any<\/em> Balticon&#8212;it&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/balticon.org\/wp50\/\"> the 50th<\/a> Balticon. And this year the committee has gathered together as many former Guests of Honor as possible from previous incarnations of the convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Balticon50Icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Balticon50Icon-300x48.jpg\" alt=\"Balticon50Icon\" width=\"300\" height=\"48\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Balticon50Icon-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Balticon50Icon-768x124.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Balticon50Icon.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who else will be there? <\/p>\n<p>Me!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ll be there, too, here&#8217;s where to find me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Gimungous Autograph Session<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Saturday 2:00-3:15 p.m. (Kent)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fine Art of Rejection<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Saturday 5:00-15:50 p.m. (Parlor 9059)<\/em><br \/>\nEditors answer the hard questions. What are your deal-breakers? How do you winnow that mountain down into the select few choices? What makes your task harder? How do you decide when a story deserves more than a form rejection?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readings: Christiana Ellis, Scott Edelman, Christopher Rose, Don Sakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Saturday 16:00-16:50 (Parlor 9059)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Give and Get Critiques<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Monday 11:00-11:50 a.m. (Parlor)<\/em><br \/>\nWhat goes into being a good critiquer. How to listen to others&#8217; critiques of your work. Where to find critique partners, online and in person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Hot in Short Fiction?<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday 12:00-12:50 p.m. (Parlor 8029)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balticon&#8217;s coming up next weekend, and it&#8217;s not just any Balticon&#8212;it&#8217;s the 50th Balticon. And this year the committee has gathered together as many former Guests of Honor as possible from previous incarnations of the convention. Who else will be there? Me! If you&#8217;ll be there, too, here&#8217;s where to find me. Gimungous Autograph Session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,622],"class_list":["post-21930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balticon","tag-cons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21937,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930\/revisions\/21937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}