GenCon is Coming. Here’s Where I’ll Be

After a couple of years away and in the run-up to the November release of THE ARK, I’ll once again be making the trek to Indianapolis to participate in the wonderful GenCon Writer’s Symposium. If you’re unaware, the Symposium is one of the strongest and largest literary tracks at any convention in the country. It was attending the Symposium five years ago when I got my foot in the door as a slush editor at Apex. It was at GenCon that I made the connections I needed to write tie-in fic for BattleTech. It has shaved years off my development as a professional author.

This year’s programming features over seventy-five published authors, agents, and editors sharing their knowledge of writing and the publishing industry in a couple hundred hours worth of panels, AMA’s, and interviews.

Anyway, here’s what I’ll be up to over the weekend. In addition to my author cap, I’ll be flexing my stand up muscles as the opening act for my dear friends The Damsels of Dorkington:

-Thursday 11:00am Room 243, Writer’s Craft: Where to Start the Story SEM1577156

-Thursday 5:00pm Room 244, Business of Writing: Pitching your Project SEM1577116

-Thursday 6:00pm Room 244, Worldbuilding: When Your World is a Character SEM1577117

-Thursday 8:00pm: Dorkington Presents: This Dorkington Life ENT1568096 (Nerdy storytelling show. BTW Anne Wheaton is scheduled to appear)

-Friday 8:00pm: Dorkington Presents: Science Friction ENT1568125 (Nerd improv comedy show)

-Saturday 3:00pm Room 243, Writer’s Craft: Magic and the Modern World SEM1578856

-Saturday 7:00pm: Dorkington Presents: Deeper Dickins II: The Dickening ENT1568156 (Nerd improv comedy show)

-Sunday 9:00am Room 242, Read & Critique WKS1578889