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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Wiscon Lead Up (re-Updated, again)

re-UPDATED, again

Wiscon, the world's largest feminist science fiction convention, is two weeks away. Yikes. There's a lot to do. As I've done with previous conventions, here is a list of things I want to accomplish before May 22 when I get in my car and drive up to Madison:

Get Robert Freeman Wexler chapbook from printer
Design EV 14 post cards
Print EV 14 post cards
Design subscription flyers
Print subscription flyers
Design Wexler chapbook flyers
Print Wexler chapbook flyers
Make round stickers for giveaways
Print updated price lists
Post new website design
Contact panel members for "The Magic Book Machine" (I'm moderating)
Attach posters to foam board
Get EV 14 from printers
Make Scribe party giveaways and displays
Get party supplies (what the party supplies are also needs to be determined)
Get sekrit stuff
Pick out clothes
Get a haircut? (don't have time)
Pack car

And there are two panels (back to back on Sunday) for me to prepare for:

"Inside the Magic Book Machine" Sun 1:00 - 2:15
Having leaped the hurdle of selling a book to a publisher, few authors grasp the rest of the process. A managing editor takes you through the mechanics of the black box that is publishing. Learn how to prepare a manuscript so that the book that comes out is the one you envisioned; keep the process on schedule so sales and marketing have the time and tools they need to promote your book most effectively. A guide to becoming the author people at the publisher like--and will go the extra mile for."

Moderator: Me
Sean Wallace, Shana Cohen, Kandi Schaefferkoetter

"Does Written SF Have a Future?" Sun 2:30 -3:45
Is the print SF/F book or magazine as outmoded as the dodo? Is online writing the wave of the future, or will that, too, fall by the wayside in favor of other media? Is the sky falling, or has it always been falling, or is it not falling so fast after all?

Moderator: Susan Groppi
Me, Stephen Eley, Ellen Datlow

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