{"id":2937,"date":"2011-05-24T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2011-05-24T21:18:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:18:04","slug":"where-youll-find-me-at-balticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/24\/where-youll-find-me-at-balticon\/","title":{"rendered":"Where you&#8217;ll find me at Balticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/balticon.org\/\">Balticon<\/a> begins Friday, and now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/balticon.org\/B45_pocket_program.pdf\">pocket program<\/a> has been released, I can finally let you know where to find me.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re up for my particular brand of pontificating, here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll be able to get a hefty dose of my hot air.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantastic Books Presents<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, 1:00 PM<br \/>\n<em>Moderator: Ian Randal Strock; Panelists: Scott Edelman, Walter H. Hunt, Daniel Kimmel<\/em><br \/>\nFantastic Books is a publisher of quality new and reprint speculative fiction. Some of our authors have been publishing and winning awards for decades. Others are brand new, and welcoming the arrival of their first books. Publisher Ian Randal Strock will present the titles he\u2019s recently published, try to explain why \u201cAnimythical Tales\u201d and \u201cJar Jar Binks Must Die\u201d are the company\u2019s two best-selling books, and reveal the exciting books coming in the future. He may also be available to discuss small press publishing with potential authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name-Droppers<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, 3:00 PM<br \/>\n<em>Moderator: Scott Edelman; Panelists: Ian Randal Strock, Thomas B. Talbot, Phil Giunta, Michael Swanwick<\/em><br \/>\nOur panelists tell their most colorful stories about their personal contacts with the field\u2019s departed giants. What were they really like?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fans And Writers<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, 6:00 PM<br \/>\n<em>Moderator: Carl Cipra; Panelists: Michael D\u2019Ambrosio, Scott Edelman, Douglas C. Fratz, Neal Levin<\/em><br \/>\nA panel of writers, fans and publishers discuss the pluses and minuses of the sometimes close relation between the creators of SF and its readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autographing<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, 7:00 PM<br \/>\n<em>Scott Edelman, John C. Wright and Izolda Trakhtenberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, even though I&#8217;d indicated early on that I was only going to show up either  Saturday OR Sunday,  I&#8217;ve been mistakenly scheduled for both.  And since I&#8217;m only finding this out after the pocket program has been printed, without getting a chance to vet my schedule,  and they&#8217;ve got me down for a Sunday night reading I won&#8217;t be at the con for, I&#8217;ll end up disappointing some folks. <\/p>\n<p>Sorry about that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balticon begins Friday, and now that the pocket program has been released, I can finally let you know where to find me. So if you&#8217;re up for my particular brand of pontificating, here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll be able to get a hefty dose of my hot air. Fantastic Books Presents Saturday, 1:00 PM Moderator: Ian Randal [&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":[86,58],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balticon","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","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=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}