Here’s a rare opportunity, Poseidon’s Scribe fans. You can attend a writer’s conference and see me…for only $10. Yes, you read that correctly. $10.
The Chessiecon 2020 conference is online this year and it only costs a ten-spot to attend. Since it’s online, you can attend from anywhere. The conference runs from Friday, November 27 through Sunday, November 29.
Although things are still in flux, here’s my current schedule (subject to change) (all times are EST):
| Date/Time | Title | Description |
| Friday 5:30 pm | How to Get Published | Overview of process from story idea to editing to submission to publishing. |
| Friday 8:30 pm | Humor in SF/F Writing | How to make something funny, what makes someone laugh. Humor as ‘the tragedy you survived.’ |
| Saturday 10:00 am | Making an Unlikeable Person a Likeable Character | Discuss how to write a person with unpleasant characteristics or behavior can still be a character that appeals to readers |
| Saturday 11:30 am | Reading | Reading |
| Saturday 8:30 pm | How to ruin a revolution | Discuss protests and revolutions have an effect that was not anticipated by the organizers. Do revolutions need to be violent to be effective? Consider Heinlein’s Moon is a Harsh Mistress as an example. |
| Sunday 1:00 pm | Humans Are the Same | History panel about examples of ways in which we’re not so different from our ancestors, and how writers make use of this fact. Funny stories of immature ancient graffiti, poetry about people’s cats, etc. |
At the moment, it looks like I’ll be moderating four of those panels, all except “Making an Unlikeable Person a Likeable Character.” For my reading session on Saturday, I plan to present my short story “Reconnaissance Mission” from the anthology Not Far From Roswell.
Normally, I charge $11, or as much as $12, to see me, and then you only get my bad side, from a distance. Here’s your chance, for only $10, to see the real, live—
Poseidon’s Scribe
