my Readercon schedule
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Thursday 8:00 PM, ME/ CT: Talk / Discussion (60 min.)
Return to Riverside. Ellen Kushner
In 1987, Kushner published her first novel, _Swordspoint_. 2006 saw the publication of _The Privilege of the Sword_, a sequel set about 15 years later. In between there were various short stories featuring the same characters, and a novel (and novella), _The Fall of the Kings_, written with partner Delia Sherman and set long, long after _Swordspoint_. What's it like to stay so long with one imaginary city and cast of characters, and to grow older along with them? How do you keep the theme of the books fresh and edgy when an entire generation has grown up between them? Kushner answers all your impertinent and importunate questions about the world and the characters . . . and what might be next.
Friday 1:00 PM, Salon F: Panel
-Esque No More: Transcending Your Influences. Laird Barron, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ellen Kushner (L), Kelly Link, Barry B. Longyear, James Morrow
Beginning writers are often heavily indebted to one or more huge influences--a fact which may be more obvious to them than to their readers, or vice versa. Those that go on to be most successful are those who develop their own voice, a process that can take place any time in a writer's career. Our panelists talk about their awareness of their influences and their success at transcending them. To what extent does this happen consciously, or unconsciously as a natural part of a writer's maturation?
Friday 3:00 PM, NH / MA: Reading (30 min.)
Reads either from her novel _The Privilege of the Sword_ (2006) or something else entirely.
Friday 6:00 PM, ME/ CT: Discussion (60 min.)
Interstial Arts. Ellen Kushner (L) with R. Scott Bakker, Lucy Corin, Liz Gorinsky, Theodora Goss, Judith Moffett, Delia Sherman, Sarah Smith, Nancy Werlin, _et al_
A "Town Meeting" about IAF - please come and share your thoughts!
The Interstitial Arts Foundation is a group of "Artists Without Borders" fighting the Balkanization of art. They celebrate work that crosses or straddles the borders between media, the borders between genres, the borders between "high art" and popular culture. They are not opposed to mainstream fiction or genre fiction, nor are they seeking to create a new category. They are just particularly excited by border-crossing fiction (and music and art), and want to support the creation of such works and to establish better ways of engaging with them. The IAF has had a presence at Readercon from its beginning, and last year Small Beer Press published _Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstial Writing_, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss. Interstitial Arts is an idea, a conversation, not a hard-and-fast definition--and it's a conversation you are invited to join.
Saturday 1:00 PM, ME/ CT: Panel
"Are You Writing a Sequel?" Beth Bernobich, Suzy McKee Charnas, Michael J. Daley (L), Sarah Beth Durst, Walter H. Hunt, Ellen Kushner, Judith Moffett
Readers love them. Editors want them--sometimes. What do writers think about them? _When_ do they think of them: before, during, or after work on the first book? _How_ do they think of them: all planned out or a grope in the dark? What's the difference between a sequel and a series? Our panelists will answer these and the questions that naturally follow them.
Sunday 11:00 AM, Salon E: Autographing
John Crowley; Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman
Thursday 8:00 PM, ME/ CT: Talk / Discussion (60 min.)
Return to Riverside. Ellen Kushner
In 1987, Kushner published her first novel, _Swordspoint_. 2006 saw the publication of _The Privilege of the Sword_, a sequel set about 15 years later. In between there were various short stories featuring the same characters, and a novel (and novella), _The Fall of the Kings_, written with partner Delia Sherman and set long, long after _Swordspoint_. What's it like to stay so long with one imaginary city and cast of characters, and to grow older along with them? How do you keep the theme of the books fresh and edgy when an entire generation has grown up between them? Kushner answers all your impertinent and importunate questions about the world and the characters . . . and what might be next.
Friday 1:00 PM, Salon F: Panel
-Esque No More: Transcending Your Influences. Laird Barron, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ellen Kushner (L), Kelly Link, Barry B. Longyear, James Morrow
Beginning writers are often heavily indebted to one or more huge influences--a fact which may be more obvious to them than to their readers, or vice versa. Those that go on to be most successful are those who develop their own voice, a process that can take place any time in a writer's career. Our panelists talk about their awareness of their influences and their success at transcending them. To what extent does this happen consciously, or unconsciously as a natural part of a writer's maturation?
Friday 3:00 PM, NH / MA: Reading (30 min.)
Reads either from her novel _The Privilege of the Sword_ (2006) or something else entirely.
Friday 6:00 PM, ME/ CT: Discussion (60 min.)
Interstial Arts. Ellen Kushner (L) with R. Scott Bakker, Lucy Corin, Liz Gorinsky, Theodora Goss, Judith Moffett, Delia Sherman, Sarah Smith, Nancy Werlin, _et al_
A "Town Meeting" about IAF - please come and share your thoughts!
The Interstitial Arts Foundation is a group of "Artists Without Borders" fighting the Balkanization of art. They celebrate work that crosses or straddles the borders between media, the borders between genres, the borders between "high art" and popular culture. They are not opposed to mainstream fiction or genre fiction, nor are they seeking to create a new category. They are just particularly excited by border-crossing fiction (and music and art), and want to support the creation of such works and to establish better ways of engaging with them. The IAF has had a presence at Readercon from its beginning, and last year Small Beer Press published _Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstial Writing_, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss. Interstitial Arts is an idea, a conversation, not a hard-and-fast definition--and it's a conversation you are invited to join.
Saturday 1:00 PM, ME/ CT: Panel
"Are You Writing a Sequel?" Beth Bernobich, Suzy McKee Charnas, Michael J. Daley (L), Sarah Beth Durst, Walter H. Hunt, Ellen Kushner, Judith Moffett
Readers love them. Editors want them--sometimes. What do writers think about them? _When_ do they think of them: before, during, or after work on the first book? _How_ do they think of them: all planned out or a grope in the dark? What's the difference between a sequel and a series? Our panelists will answer these and the questions that naturally follow them.
Sunday 11:00 AM, Salon E: Autographing
John Crowley; Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman
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Date: 2008-07-13 07:03 pm (UTC)Look forward to seeing you and Delia . . .
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Date: 2008-07-13 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-13 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-13 11:58 pm (UTC)this yes?
*looks at guest list*
wow...hm 479 mi – um... mayb not.
Have fun.
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Date: 2008-07-14 05:07 am (UTC)