AggieCon report:We had some friends staying with us for t...
AggieCon report:
We had some friends staying with us for the con, and for Saturday morning we drove out to Lexington to go to Snow's Barbeque. They're only open one day a week, everybody who works there has a another day job, and they start selling bbq at 8:00am and close when they run out, usually around 11:00am. It was very tasty.
There was some initial confusion with the programming, but the three panels I was on went really well, and had good audiences. (The room was full for the steampunk panel, and about half full for the other two panels, including the one on Sunday.)
Part of the crew of the Airship Isabella was on the steampunk panel, and we had a really good time. We talked about steampunk as unbridled creativity, as a reaction to narrow categories, multiculturalism in steampunk, fantasy steampunk, SF steampunk, post-apocalyptic steampunk, and how people came to steampunk through music, art, books.
On the How to Get Published panel, we warned people about scams aimed at aspiring writers (which are legion), then answered specific questions for a while. Also talked about how publishing is hard, and often not rewarding, and because you decide not to try to get published is no reason why you should stop writing.
The creativity panel was on Sunday, and we basically talked about sources of inspiration. One person in the audience had a couple of good questions about how to keep fostering your creativity when you have a day job, many other responsibilities, etc. And we talked about people who have written entire novels in fifteen minute increments snatched whenever their kids were asleep, on breaks at work, etc.
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On the Night Bazaar it's the release week for Bradley P. Beaulieu's new fantasy novel The Winds of Khalakovo, and you can enter to win a free copy!
We had some friends staying with us for the con, and for Saturday morning we drove out to Lexington to go to Snow's Barbeque. They're only open one day a week, everybody who works there has a another day job, and they start selling bbq at 8:00am and close when they run out, usually around 11:00am. It was very tasty.
There was some initial confusion with the programming, but the three panels I was on went really well, and had good audiences. (The room was full for the steampunk panel, and about half full for the other two panels, including the one on Sunday.)
Part of the crew of the Airship Isabella was on the steampunk panel, and we had a really good time. We talked about steampunk as unbridled creativity, as a reaction to narrow categories, multiculturalism in steampunk, fantasy steampunk, SF steampunk, post-apocalyptic steampunk, and how people came to steampunk through music, art, books.
On the How to Get Published panel, we warned people about scams aimed at aspiring writers (which are legion), then answered specific questions for a while. Also talked about how publishing is hard, and often not rewarding, and because you decide not to try to get published is no reason why you should stop writing.
The creativity panel was on Sunday, and we basically talked about sources of inspiration. One person in the audience had a couple of good questions about how to keep fostering your creativity when you have a day job, many other responsibilities, etc. And we talked about people who have written entire novels in fifteen minute increments snatched whenever their kids were asleep, on breaks at work, etc.
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On the Night Bazaar it's the release week for Bradley P. Beaulieu's new fantasy novel The Winds of Khalakovo, and you can enter to win a free copy!
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