My Minicon Programming Schedule

[pameladean]

FRI 8:30 PM Krushenko's

The Hero(ine)'s Quest

How three letters change the way we visualize the sword-bearer. Or should there be different rules/goals/spells for males and females on adventures? Or does asking this question make my butt look fat?

Peg Kerr, CJ Mills, Jane Yolen, Julie Czerneda, Pamela C. Dean

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SAT 5:00-6:00 PM Veranda 1/2

READING Pamela Dean

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SUN 1:00 PM Veranda 5/6

Which Came First

The chicken or the egg? The story or the world? Does the story you want to tell determine the setting, or does your chosen setting demand a certain kind of story to be told in it? Are there some types of stories that simply cannot be told in a particular setting? How do creators balance these seemingly opposing forces in imagining their tales?

Dana M. Baird, Jane Yolen, Marissa Lingen, Pamela C. Dean, Ruth Berman



I am amused to see that my old middle initial has been miraculously resurrected for the occasion. But not for the reading! Only for panels!

I'm not sure yet what I'll be reading. I've been working on a short story, but the bits may not connect up in an entertaining fashion. There is also new material for the Liavek novel, and a fair amount of never-read-aloud stuff from the still-in-limbo amazing and expanding shrinking novel variously known as Going North, Abiding Reflection, and My Poor Book. If you like, you may say in a comment what you would most like to hear. If I don't do what you ask, it will probably be because whatever it is doesn't work well for a reading.

Pamela

Comments

[thinkum]

Wish we could be there to see you, with or without the middle initial.

[pameladean]

Me too! I was never much enamoured of Boskone while we lived there, but I found myself thinking, "But if we went to Boskone K and J would be there!"

P.

[thinkum]

We had a lovely time there this year, and will likely go again in 2014; 'twould be lovely to see you there!

I really wish a Minnesota trip were in our future. In addition to seeing lots of good people, I have all sorts of research I'd like to do for the Letters Project, both at the MN Historical Society, and at Hamline's archives.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Liiiiiavek.

[pameladean]

I am strongly considering it.

I see that they have made sure I won't miss your reading by putting it right before mine.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Which is actually no guarantee of anything, as some people like to have a rest before they read--ask me how I know--but still, I'm glad it's possible.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

re: Hero(ine)
Once at a Kubla Khan I was fortunate enough to hear Gordy bemoan the lack of a female word matching the male word "hero". His example was Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

[castleclear.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I won't be attending Minicon (again!) tho I wish I could. Your panels and readings will be a lot of fun! Wish I could attend. :)

[lcohen]

i will look forward to con reports and panel reports and living vicariously!

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Predictably, I am also pro-Liavek. The bit of it you read before (last year?) was lovely.

[aedifica]

I'm entirely torn on what to ask for in your reading, so I think my vote is "Yes, please." :-)