{"id":2314,"date":"2011-03-25T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2011-03-25T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T00:27:13","slug":"where-youll-find-me-at-ad-astra-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/25\/where-youll-find-me-at-ad-astra-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Where you’ll find me at Ad Astra (FINAL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks from tonight, I’ll be laying my head to rest in Toronto, because from April 8-11 I’ll be attending Ad Astra<\/a>. I gave you my rough schedule earlier in the week, but now that the committee has finalized things—including giving the date and time for my reading—I figured I should update you.<\/p>\n

Here’s where you’ll be able to find me up in the Great White North:<\/p>\n

Opening Ceremonies<\/strong>
\nFriday, April 8, 7:00 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

Using Conventions To Your Advantage<\/strong>
\nFriday, April 8, 9:00 p.m.<\/em>
\nConventions can be important venues for writers to meet editors and publishers. Hear stories from professionals in the field on how-to and how-not-to use your con experience to network.
\n(with Ian Keeling and Justine Lewkowitz)<\/em><\/p>\n

GoH Hour<\/strong>
\nSaturday, April 10, 11:00 a.m.<\/em>
\n(with Kathryn Cramer and Elisabeth Vonarburg)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Walking Dead<\/strong>
\nSaturday, April 10, 12:00 p.m.<\/em>
\nDiscuss the television adaptation of the graphic novel series The Walking Dead.
\n(with Colleen Hillerup, Ian Keeling and Mandy Slater)<\/em><\/p>\n

Autograph session<\/strong>
\nSaturday, April 10, 3:30 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why Professionalism Matters<\/strong>
\nSunday, April 11, 11 a.m.<\/em>
\nWriting is an art, but publishing is a business. How writers and artists should act, and what they need to understand when trying to sell their work.
\n(with Ziana de Bethune, Adrienne Kress, Matt Moore, Mandy Slater, Howard Tayler and Gregory Wilson)<\/em><\/p>\n

Reading
\nSunday, April 11, 12 p.m.<\/em>
\n(with Matthew Johnson)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if any of you who’ll be there have suggestions or requests for which of my stories I should read during my shared hour Sunday with Matthew Johnson, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks from tonight, I’ll be laying my head to rest in Toronto, because from April 8-11 I’ll be attending Ad Astra. I gave you my rough schedule earlier in the week, but now that the committee has finalized things—including giving the date and time for my reading—I figured I should update you. Here’s where […]<\/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":[57,58,56],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ad-astra","tag-conventions","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","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=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}