Conflux - how to avoid Gillian on the Sunday
My Conflux Sunday has changed a bit, so you need a new guide on how to avoid me. I've lost the rooms for most of it, so some of this may involve sleeping in or having a long lunch.
I'm attending a round table in con organisation, first thing Sunday morning (Boardroom 3), partly to pull together what I learned from my European conrunner friends and partly to share some of what I learned. This means I won't be at the panel on Effective Researching, which is probably a good thing for the panellists. I've made some nice progress recently on what researching for writers is, as opposed to how we're taught to research at school and uni and what the differences mean to our writing, BTW. This is thanks to all those conventions I attended recently, so it all comes full circle. I got to talk to writers and artists and fellow-historians and other academics and to pull a whole lot of things together. I can now teach research-for-fiction (including different types of fiction, of course) and research-for-academia as a twinned set, giving students skills in both and a solid understanding of how they're different. Not that anyone wants it right now, but it was important to me to sort it. There's no call for me to teach it in Canberra, apparently, which is a shame. And none of this is relevant to Sunday at Conflux, for I shall be at the con organisation round table.
At 11 am is my booklaunch, near the registration desk. Books!! (but by me, which may be a problem)
at 1 pm is the (very short) fan funds auction. I have some stuff from Europe, including Dr Who material (stickers!) and badges from Liburnicon (which I bought specially and will keep if no-one wants to bid on them) and some other cool stuff. If anyone wants to know what I have for the auction, let me know and I'll make a list.
At 1.30 pm is the "Where do I come from?" panel, where a group of us talk about issues of culture and character development.
After that, I may well be in the Dealers' Room (at some stage), helping out at either the CSFG table or bugging one of my publishers. I won't be going to the banquet, having spent all my spare money in Europe (and some of my non-spare money) and I won't be at the earlier partyish things due to Yom Kippur. In fact, the whole first two days of the convention are Gillian-free, thanks to Yom Kippur.
My talk is on the Monday, and that's all I'm formally programmed for on the Monday. This is quite a different convention for me than last year, when I was programmed for so many hours that I didn't always have time to eat!
And that's your programme update!
Now I ought to get back to my to-do list, which must be all finished with by tonight if I want to see Floriade tomorrow (which I do). Except.. I forgot something. Oh, yes. I have Finnish sweets for people who don't succeed in avoiding me. Instead of chocolate, just this once.
I'm attending a round table in con organisation, first thing Sunday morning (Boardroom 3), partly to pull together what I learned from my European conrunner friends and partly to share some of what I learned. This means I won't be at the panel on Effective Researching, which is probably a good thing for the panellists. I've made some nice progress recently on what researching for writers is, as opposed to how we're taught to research at school and uni and what the differences mean to our writing, BTW. This is thanks to all those conventions I attended recently, so it all comes full circle. I got to talk to writers and artists and fellow-historians and other academics and to pull a whole lot of things together. I can now teach research-for-fiction (including different types of fiction, of course) and research-for-academia as a twinned set, giving students skills in both and a solid understanding of how they're different. Not that anyone wants it right now, but it was important to me to sort it. There's no call for me to teach it in Canberra, apparently, which is a shame. And none of this is relevant to Sunday at Conflux, for I shall be at the con organisation round table.
At 11 am is my booklaunch, near the registration desk. Books!! (but by me, which may be a problem)
at 1 pm is the (very short) fan funds auction. I have some stuff from Europe, including Dr Who material (stickers!) and badges from Liburnicon (which I bought specially and will keep if no-one wants to bid on them) and some other cool stuff. If anyone wants to know what I have for the auction, let me know and I'll make a list.
At 1.30 pm is the "Where do I come from?" panel, where a group of us talk about issues of culture and character development.
After that, I may well be in the Dealers' Room (at some stage), helping out at either the CSFG table or bugging one of my publishers. I won't be going to the banquet, having spent all my spare money in Europe (and some of my non-spare money) and I won't be at the earlier partyish things due to Yom Kippur. In fact, the whole first two days of the convention are Gillian-free, thanks to Yom Kippur.
My talk is on the Monday, and that's all I'm formally programmed for on the Monday. This is quite a different convention for me than last year, when I was programmed for so many hours that I didn't always have time to eat!
And that's your programme update!
Now I ought to get back to my to-do list, which must be all finished with by tonight if I want to see Floriade tomorrow (which I do). Except.. I forgot something. Oh, yes. I have Finnish sweets for people who don't succeed in avoiding me. Instead of chocolate, just this once.
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