Oct. 16
1:34 PM
World Fantasy Convention 2010—Two Weeks to Go
Well, a little less than, really--I still have quite a bit to do in preparation, but I'm doing a lot better than last year where the modus operandi amounted to imitating a decapitated chicken. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and new alike, and I'm really looking forward to crashing Dirty Frank's Hot Dog Palace, maybe nightly. If you notice me wandering around, looking confused, by all means say hello--I'm terrible at recognizing people in general, and people I've never seen IRL in particular.
Schedule-wise, they've got a pdf up of the tentative programming schedule, and in the absence of 11th hour revisions to said itinerary the two best places to find me will be at the mass autographing thing on Friday night, which runs from 8--11 PM, and at the panel I'm on. Zee panel is this:
Friday 01:00 PM Humor and Horror, The Trainwreck of Expectation. Michael Shea, Jason Sizemore (m), Lucy Snyder, Jesse Bullington
To which I respond with an inarticulate spluttering. I've long been a fan of Apex, which Sizemore edits, and have been thoroughly impressed by what I've read of Shea and Snyder--only, I'm embarrassed to admit, short fiction as of right this instant. Obviously nobody can read everything, and normally I wouldn't be embarrassed by such a commonplace occurrence, but Shea is one of those authors whose novels I've been meaning to read for years now, as they sound like exactly my cup of Iron Goddess of Mercy. I mean, Dying Earth fiction authorized by Vance looooong before the recent (and deserved and overdue) resurgence in the setting's popularity, and that's just a fraction of his output. I'd probably be nervous anyway as this is my first panel, but now...I know I shouldn't be, as I met Shea after the Lovecraft Unbound reading at last year's WFC and he seemed very cool, and Lucy Snyder was very gracious and forgiving when I was maybe kind of being an ass on the internet a little while back, so I'm sure once the initial "shit, I'm on a panel with serious business authors and editors" wears off I'll be fine. Plus, you know, it's called the Trainwreck of Expectation, so if people show up expecting an intelligent discussion of the topic only to find me blathering cluelessly it will certainly be that, and depending on the audience's level of sadism, either hilarious or horrifying. I've got this in the bag!
Also at World Fantasy, the new issue of Jabberwocky will drop, and it's rocking a pretty gorgeous ToC--thrilled to have snuck in with all these awesome folks:
An Inscription by Oscar Wilde
From Fantasist to Son by Adam B. Shaeffer
Epiphyte by Shweta Narayan
Down There Where You Don’t Go by Jesse Bullington
Desfixion by Erik Amundsen
Dreamer by Adrienne J. Odasso
The Poet’s Child by A.C. Wise
Curses by Alexandra Seidel
Thanatopsis by E. Lily Yu
She Makes One Hell of a Wicked Witch by Peter Kovochich
Pòeme Noir by James Norcliffe
Dealing the Deck of War by Jennifer Crow
Black Arrows from the Golden Bow by Erik Amundsen
Minnelied by Kevin Kaiser
Damselfly to Dragon by E. Lily Yu
Until We are Naked Again Beneath the Mute Witness of Stars by Berrien C. Henderson
The New Alexandria by Sonya Taaffe
Eve by Becca De La Rosa
Letting Him Slither by KL Pereira
The Burmese Tailor by Genevieve Valentine
Owling by Sara Amis
Reap the Whirlwind by Rose Lemberg
Granny Bellaw by Patricia Russo
Laying Small Ghosts by Virginia M. Mohlere
Waxed Lachrymose by Sarah E. Colona
So that's my rough World Fantasy itinerary with related nattering--for those who are going, what are your planning on doing/scheduled for?