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Ellen Wright attended the Studio 360 taping and reports on tor.com primarily about the time travel discussion with Connie Willis and science writer Dave Goldberg. Check out the article here.

Indications on the Studio 360 blog are that the show will be broadcast on NPR sometime around New Year's Eve and that it will also be made available online then.

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Connie Willis will be in New York on Tuesday, Nov 17th, to take part in a live recording of NPR's Studio 360 at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. The show is sold out, but they supposedly will offer a live webcast on the website at 7 pm ET which will likely stay available. Once I have more details on when it will be broadcast on the radio and associated links for that, I will post them.

Their web site describes the show as:

On November 17, Studio 360 takes you where no audience has gone...

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The novel is now really turned in, though there's still tons of work (and cutting) to be done on it, so I won't really feel like celebrating until that's done and the book's formally accepted and everything. I worked on the Obama campaign and I'm still deliriously happy about the election a week later and having a little trouble with withdrawal, though I am busily watching Sarah Palin's Victory Tour? which is helping some. Happy Thanksgiving! Connie Willis

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Mur Lafferty Interview From BaltiCon 42.
On Mur Lafferty's I Should be Writing 2.0 blog, she has posted a two part video interview with Connie from BaltiCon 42. Part 1 Part 2

BaltiCon Podcast Connie Willis Interview
On the Balticon Podcast site, they have recently posted their podcast interview with Connie Willis, BaltiCon 42's Author Guest of Honor.

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The Greeley Tribune has this report on the High Plains Library District Foundation scifi themed fundraiser which happened on Sept 27th. No pictures of Connie in the newspaper, but there may end up some photos from the event at Black Tie Colorado. They do currently have a Silent Auction going as a fund-raiser.

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The Loveland, Colorado library has selected Connie Willis' Bellwether as their Loveland Loves to Read book and this week has Connie giving two talks on Wednesday, Oct 1st at the Rialto theatre.

Here's the original announcement about the event from back in August. For current details, visit the Friends of the Loveland Library page or read this informational PDF about it.

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For the A Dozen On Denver series of stories in the Rocky Mountain News, Connie Willis has contributed a new short story and has also done an interview.

For the interview, go here.

For the short story, "A New Hat", go here.

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At the Hugo Awards Ceremony last night at Denvention 3, Connie Willis was awarded her tenth Hugo Award for the novella "All Seated on The Ground".
Connie and George R. R. Martin (who accepted the hugo for Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union).


<p align="center">A close-up of the actual award.</p><p align="center">More on this year's full slate of winners at The Hugo Awards site.</p><p align="center"> </p>

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I've got a round up of news and information from Connie's appearances at San Diego Comic Con International last weekend. Her group panel with other authors was packed and her solo spotlight panel was nearly full. At her spotlight panel, she indicated that All Clear would be finished in the next month.
Thursday was the Eye on the Past panel with a number of authors. From left to right in the picture are Maryelizabeth Hart (moderator from Mysterious Galaxy), Peter David, Naomi Novik, Connie Willis,

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Connie will be doing two panels at the Comic Con International Convention in San Diego and several autograph sessions. Here are the details as they stand now:

Thursday, July 24 5:00-6:00
Looking at Our World: Eye on the Past - Authors discuss how they use and abuse history to inform their fictional stories. Panelists include Connie Willis (Passage), Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy), Max Allan Collins (Deadly Beloved), Peter David (Tigerheart), Naomi Novik (Victory of Eagles), and Jess Winfield

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