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I'm going to make it to Balticon for the first time in years, finally. They've packed my schedule!
Here's what's on the slate, several of which are fanfic-adjacent topics:
Start Time Title
Fri 8:00 PM Double Book Launch Party: Mystery of the Bitten Peach/Bound by the Blood
Sat 11:30AM Autographing
Sat 4:00 PM The Fanfic-ification of Traditional Publishing panel
Sat 7:00 PM What's Happened to Kinky SFF After 50 Shades? panel
Sat 8:30 PM Erotic Flash Fiction reading
Sun 1:00 PM Epistolary Forms panel
Sun 2:30 PM Premarketing Your Book panel
Sun 10:00 PM Author Readings: Tan 18+ reading
They also had me scheduled on a Monday morning 10am panel called The Structured Pantser but I had to beg off. Between doing a reading at 10pm the night before and my usual problems with DSPS (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome) it would just be setting myself up for failure (and likely a health crash) to try to haul my ass to public speaking at 10am.
For me, 10am is the equivalent of 6am for a normal person. I feel bad about it, but I should know better by now than to try to force myself to do things that I know will make me feel terrible for the entire day.
Speaking of doing too much... I'm also going to be participating in Wiscon that same weekend, since this year Wiscon is all virtual! Neon Hemlock will have two group readings and I'm hoping they can slot me in the Friday one since the Sunday one would conflict with the Balticon program. Also I may either moderate or be on the "Not a Race Panel", which is an annual tradition of a panel where all the panelists are POC but the one thing we can't talk about is race/ethnicity. (It often gets quite silly.)
Anyway, who'll be at Balticon?
Here's what's on the slate, several of which are fanfic-adjacent topics:
Start Time Title
Fri 8:00 PM Double Book Launch Party: Mystery of the Bitten Peach/Bound by the Blood
Sat 11:30AM Autographing
Sat 4:00 PM The Fanfic-ification of Traditional Publishing panel
Sat 7:00 PM What's Happened to Kinky SFF After 50 Shades? panel
Sat 8:30 PM Erotic Flash Fiction reading
Sun 1:00 PM Epistolary Forms panel
Sun 2:30 PM Premarketing Your Book panel
Sun 10:00 PM Author Readings: Tan 18+ reading
They also had me scheduled on a Monday morning 10am panel called The Structured Pantser but I had to beg off. Between doing a reading at 10pm the night before and my usual problems with DSPS (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome) it would just be setting myself up for failure (and likely a health crash) to try to haul my ass to public speaking at 10am.
For me, 10am is the equivalent of 6am for a normal person. I feel bad about it, but I should know better by now than to try to force myself to do things that I know will make me feel terrible for the entire day.
Speaking of doing too much... I'm also going to be participating in Wiscon that same weekend, since this year Wiscon is all virtual! Neon Hemlock will have two group readings and I'm hoping they can slot me in the Friday one since the Sunday one would conflict with the Balticon program. Also I may either moderate or be on the "Not a Race Panel", which is an annual tradition of a panel where all the panelists are POC but the one thing we can't talk about is race/ethnicity. (It often gets quite silly.)
Anyway, who'll be at Balticon?