My Shore Leave 43 schedule

The Shore Leave folks have posted the schedule for next weekend’s convention here:

Schedule

Since I don’t have much coming out this year to talk about, my own participation in the panels will be slight, entirely on Friday, July 7:

4pm

Star Trek Discovery, a New Era of Trek

Salon B

Rigel Ailur (moderator), Derek Tyler Attico , Christopher L. Bennett , Kirsten Beyer , Kelli Fitzpatrick , Dayton Ward

The panel will discuss how DSC has broken new ground, its legacy, and the other shows it launched, like Star Trek Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds.

5pm

What Happened to the Star Trek novels?

Salon E&F

Christopher L. Bennett , Glenn Hauman , David Mack , James Swallow , Dayton Ward

The annual output of Star Trek’s once prolific tie-in program has diminished even as new series have launched on streaming channel Paramount+. Why are there so few new Star Trek novels these days? And how do Trek authors feel about this?

10pm

Meet The Pros

Hallway Outside Hunt Valley

On Saturday, I’ll just be generally around the convention, and will try to find time to sign autographs at the traditional Author Chimney by the book dealers’ table on the bottom floor near the escalators. As for Sunday, I might leave early, but we’ll see.

I plan to bring a few copies of each of my more recent books to sell. This should include all my original print books — Only Superhuman, Arachne’s Crime, Arachne’s Exile, The Arachne Omnibus, Among the Wild Cybers, Footprints in the Stars, Hub Space, and Crimes of the Hub, plus my last three Star Trek novels, The Captain’s Oath, The Higher Frontier, and Living Memory. I probably won’t bring more than 4 of each, since I didn’t sell many last year and brought more than I needed. But it would be nice if I sold out of a few!