{"id":3132,"date":"2011-06-10T21:44:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2011-06-10T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T01:44:45","slug":"where-ill-be-pontificating-in-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/10\/where-ill-be-pontificating-in-reno\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ll be pontificating in Reno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve yet to survive June&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokerweekend2011.org\/\">Stoker Awards weekend<\/a>, or July&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readercon.org\/\">Readercon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/\">San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>, it seems a bit early to be thinking of August and the World Science Fiction Convention. But luckily, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renovationsf.org\/\">Renovation<\/a> committee has been doing that thinking for me.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll be able to find me in Reno two months from now. This is only the list of  panels, though&#8212;readings, autographings, and other solo events are still to come.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Will Eisner: Pioneering Comics Genius<\/strong><br \/>\nThursday, August 18, 12:00-13:00<br \/>\n<em>with  Tom Galloway and Stu Shiffman<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasy and Horror in the New Century<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat to look for and where to find on the darker side of literature<br \/>\nSaturday, August 20, 11:00-12:00<br \/>\n<em>with John Joseph Adams, Susan T. Casper, Ellen Datlow, and Nick Mamatas <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Giving and Receiving Critiques<\/strong><br \/>\nMany writers participate in writers workshops, but it can be difficult, especially for new writers, to give critiques helpfully and receive critiques gracefully. Experienced workshoppers discuss techniques for critiques.<br \/>\nSaturday, August 20, 12:00-13:00<br \/>\n<em>with Margaret Fisk , Daniel Abraham , Sheila Finch and Tim Pratt <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crisis Fatigue: The Pros and Cons of Cross-book Universe-changing Comic Epics <\/strong><br \/>\nAlmost every year, it seems, the comics world has a major multibook crisis\/civil war\/semi-reboot. Is it overused?  Does it bring in new readers or deter them?<br \/>\nSaturday, August 20 17:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\n<em>with Tom Galloway, Lenny Bailes and Brenda W. Clough<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering what&#8217;s going on in the world of DC Comics at the moment, the timing of that last panel couldn&#8217;t be better.<\/p>\n<p>See you all in Reno&#8212;and at three <em>other<\/em> cons first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve yet to survive June&#8217;s Stoker Awards weekend, or July&#8217;s Readercon or San Diego Comic-Con, it seems a bit early to be thinking of August and the World Science Fiction Convention. But luckily, the Renovation committee has been doing that thinking for me. So here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll be able to find me in Reno [&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":[58,16],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","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=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}