Minicon Schedule

[pameladean]

Somewhat belatedly, here's my Minicon programming schedule:

Friday, 11:30 AM (ugh) Krushenko's: The Scribblies Interview of GoH Jane Yolen. Emma Bull, Jane Yolen, Nate Bucklin, Pamela Dean, Patricia C. Wrede, Steven Brust.

Saturday, 11:30 AM (UGH), Krushenko's: Recreating the Fairy Tale

Fairy tales are in their own quirky way more prominent now than in past years. They are simply everywhere - they have infiltrated poetry, novellas, novels, musicals, TV, advertising, movies, music... and there seems no stopping them. They are imagined, re-imagined, stood on their heads, flung into outer space, moved into the twenty-first century and beyond. What is it about the fairy tale that makes it so compelling? Where will we take them (or they take us) next? Adam Stemple, Elise A. Matthesen, Emma Bull, Jane Yolen, Pamela Dean, Will Alexander.

Saturday, 4:30 PM (YAY), Veranda 1/2, Pamela Dean Reading.


All of these, but particularly the reading, are up against some heavy competition from other interesting programming.

I will probably be reading from a short story that a few people will have heard me read a snippet of at Wiscon several years ago. It is not, alas, finished yet, because it keeps throwing out novel-like tendrils from its rootstock and I have to keep cutting them back. It is about Con and Beldi in the city of the astronomical werewolves. There is a lot more of it than there was, and Minicon audiences are extremely kind and long-suffering and let me use them as guinea pigs for works in progress.

Hope to see some of you there.

Pamela

ETA: Editorial commentary on the times provided by yours truly; there is no arcane system of acronyms employed by Minicon that I am aware of.

Pamela

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The panels sound fabulous, and I'd love to hear you read from your work, whether in progress or published, one day. (I like the image of the short-story rootstock throwing out novel tendrils!)

[pameladean]

Thank you! My short stories always do that, and it has taken me this long to figure out what the right analogy was.

I am actually a little tired of fairy-tale panels, but Jane Yolen asked for me, and the other panelists are interesting people and good writers, so I trust we will do something novel with it.

P.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I guess fairytale retellings have been a thing for quite some time, so there must have been panels on them for quite some time, so I can understand your being tired of them. I'd love to hear people like you and Jane Yolen talking on the topic, though!

There are times when something gets seized upon and made popular and you (well, "one" .... me) gets absolutely sick of it. I felt that way for a good while about selkies, which is a shame, because I like the concept of selkies. But if I read one more story about a downpressed woman finding her sealskin, I was going to scream. (I'm past that now. Go ahead and write selkies again, world!)

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I would go to fairy tales, and I would re-read Tolkien's essay a dozen or so times before I got there.

[pameladean]

Sometimes I do feel that he said it all and we should merely point at the book instead of having a panel.

P.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Mris and I won't even have to leave the room to make it to your reading! We might anyway, to stretch our legs and like that. But.

They put me on a Friday panel too, though thankfully nothing before noon. I sympathize greatly with your "ughs".

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love your ETA. It makes me think what YAY and UGH could stand for.

UGH: Underneath Great Hall (You know... locational. In case "Krushenko's" isn't enough)
YAY: Yellow Alcove Yurt (it's good to have an intimate setting for a reading)

[thinkum]

Sounds like loads of good stuff -- really, really, really wish we could be there.

[pameladean]

I wish you could too. I know that Easter is NOT the optimal time for everybody.

P.