The Official Guide to Avoiding Gillian at Continuum
I ought to apologise for so many posts today, but I'd have to apologise more if people weren't given the wherewithal to avoid me at this year's NatCon. It's very important to me to make sure that this opportunity is given to everyone. Not everyone can take advantage of it - note that some souls have to suffer the ignominy of sharing panels with me. If you turn up to support them, I will completely understand.
Friday 5 pm I Flunked Physics: Hard Science Versus Accessible Science Fiction
Alan Baxter and Steve Cameron are a bit worried about this, for entirely different reasons. It's not my fault I cursed Al. And Steve hasn't actually been on a panel with me before. He doesn’t know that I only throw chocolate in self-defence.
Friday 6 pm Writing different genders, sexualities & cultures
Three intelligent, articulate, thoughtful people on this panel and then there's me. Deborah Biancotti's chairing, so it's going to be a good discussion. Shame you can't go. Especially a shame if you can't go because you're avoiding me.
Saturday 10 am Backyard Speculation
I want to meet Claire Corbett for I very much liked her last year's book. This is possibly not how to convince you to skip this panel because I'm on it, especially when the other panellists are interesting (my spellcheck wanted me to type that they were 'infesting' but I can't swear to this and I *can* swear to the other.) The panel is about us. Well, not us as writers, but us Australia - how we use Australian settings and culture and...ignore that last bit, you're supposed to be dissuaded. Anyhow, I can't promise chocolate this year. It's probable, but not yet definite.
Sunday 10 am Elizabethans are Awesome
Ian Nichols and I are on a panel together again. I'd pity the other panelists, but I'm pretty certain that Dave Cake and Grant Watson can hold their own. My emergency reserve for this panel is food tales (of course) and stories from chapbooks. I have a misogynist werewolf tale just waiting for an outing. What I really want to talk about is magic in Elizabethan England. You still want to avoid me, however, because I am tempted to source all my ideas and thoughts the way John Dee did. Thank goodness my handwriting is already unreadable.
Sunday 2 pm Book blogs and reviewing
Blogs and books and I'm blogging about it here. Meta-everything - that should dissuade you. Ignore the other panelists, who are very cool. If you don't ignore them, you're stuck at a panel I'm on (and my spellcheck just changed 'panel' to 'penal', which says everything). Sue Bursztynski, George Ivanoff, Alexandra Pierce and Sean Wright are quite possibly worth the sacrifice of not avoiding me, but don't tell them I said that.
Sunday The Crafty Middle Ages
I'm so not going to explain what I intend to talk about in my half hour. Except that I might bring some of the replacements from the burgulation to help explain things. And that one of them might be a little surprising. Apart from that, I mainly intend to chat about some of the crafts we've been working on for the Beast (researching, writing about) and how they were used. Substitutes for plastic and the like. And maybe answer questions. Possibly a rant or two. We'll see.
Monday 10 am Readings
OK, you can't avoid the readings. The best voice in fandom is one of the four in this timeslot and it would be a sad loss to your life if you came to Continuum and missed hearing the best voice in fandom. That's OK, though, I'll be back home soon after and you'll be able to enjoy the rest of the convention in safety.
Friday 5 pm I Flunked Physics: Hard Science Versus Accessible Science Fiction
Alan Baxter and Steve Cameron are a bit worried about this, for entirely different reasons. It's not my fault I cursed Al. And Steve hasn't actually been on a panel with me before. He doesn’t know that I only throw chocolate in self-defence.
Friday 6 pm Writing different genders, sexualities & cultures
Three intelligent, articulate, thoughtful people on this panel and then there's me. Deborah Biancotti's chairing, so it's going to be a good discussion. Shame you can't go. Especially a shame if you can't go because you're avoiding me.
Saturday 10 am Backyard Speculation
I want to meet Claire Corbett for I very much liked her last year's book. This is possibly not how to convince you to skip this panel because I'm on it, especially when the other panellists are interesting (my spellcheck wanted me to type that they were 'infesting' but I can't swear to this and I *can* swear to the other.) The panel is about us. Well, not us as writers, but us Australia - how we use Australian settings and culture and...ignore that last bit, you're supposed to be dissuaded. Anyhow, I can't promise chocolate this year. It's probable, but not yet definite.
Sunday 10 am Elizabethans are Awesome
Ian Nichols and I are on a panel together again. I'd pity the other panelists, but I'm pretty certain that Dave Cake and Grant Watson can hold their own. My emergency reserve for this panel is food tales (of course) and stories from chapbooks. I have a misogynist werewolf tale just waiting for an outing. What I really want to talk about is magic in Elizabethan England. You still want to avoid me, however, because I am tempted to source all my ideas and thoughts the way John Dee did. Thank goodness my handwriting is already unreadable.
Sunday 2 pm Book blogs and reviewing
Blogs and books and I'm blogging about it here. Meta-everything - that should dissuade you. Ignore the other panelists, who are very cool. If you don't ignore them, you're stuck at a panel I'm on (and my spellcheck just changed 'panel' to 'penal', which says everything). Sue Bursztynski, George Ivanoff, Alexandra Pierce and Sean Wright are quite possibly worth the sacrifice of not avoiding me, but don't tell them I said that.
Sunday The Crafty Middle Ages
I'm so not going to explain what I intend to talk about in my half hour. Except that I might bring some of the replacements from the burgulation to help explain things. And that one of them might be a little surprising. Apart from that, I mainly intend to chat about some of the crafts we've been working on for the Beast (researching, writing about) and how they were used. Substitutes for plastic and the like. And maybe answer questions. Possibly a rant or two. We'll see.
Monday 10 am Readings
OK, you can't avoid the readings. The best voice in fandom is one of the four in this timeslot and it would be a sad loss to your life if you came to Continuum and missed hearing the best voice in fandom. That's OK, though, I'll be back home soon after and you'll be able to enjoy the rest of the convention in safety.
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