Readercon schedule and post-Readercon panel at Pandemonium
Hey, folks!
I’ll be attending Readercon in Quincy MA from Thursday July 11 through Sunday July 14, where I will be appearing on the following program items.
Graduating (?) to Novels from Short Stories
Salon 4, Friday July 12, 2024, 2:00 PM
A.C. Wise, Barbara Krasnoff, Elizabeth Bear, Gwynne Garfinkle, Karen Heuler
Description
Reviewing Kelly Link's first novel, Amal El-Mohtar said, "A certain weight of expectation accrues on writers of short fiction who haven't produced a novel, as if the short story were merely the larval stage of longer work. No matter how celebrated the author and her stories, ... the sense persists: She will eventually graduate from the short form to the long." How can the harms of this expectation be avoided? Are there any benefits to it? Do novelists experience any inverse pressure to craft tight short stories?
Reading: Elizabeth Bear
Blue Hills, Friday July 12, 2024, 4:00 PM
Solo Reading with participant:Elizabeth Bear
Institutional Memory and Erasure in Fictional Societies
Salon 3 Friday, July 12, 2024, 6:00 PM
Allison King, Elizabeth Bear, Rebecca Fraimow, Robert V.S. Redick, Susan Stinson
Libraries, archives, and museums house materials a society deems worth preserving, and the decision is usually presided over by dominant social groups. How does speculative fiction address the problem of what gets memorialized on an institutional level, and who is excluded and therefore silenced? How does this interact with speculative fiction treatments of transmission and preservation of memories on an individual level?
Autograph Session: Elizabeth Bear
Salon 6, Friday, July 12, 2024, 8:00 PM
Getting Your Other Foot In The Door
Salon 3, Saturday, July 13, 2024, 11:00 AM
E. C. Ambrose, Elizabeth Bear, Gregory Wilson, Jeanne Cavelos, Will Ludwigsen
So you published a novel, a trilogy, a series—congrats! But as all too many authors learn to their dismay, having your foot in the door rarely means what we thought it did when we started out: that future projects will have a smooth path to publication, so that the rest of your career will depend only on the quantity and quality of your writing output. Panelists will discuss the experience of having to get that foot in the door a second (or third, or more) time.
Kaffeeklatsch: Elizabeth Bear
Basalt, Saturday, July 13, 2024, 1:00 PM
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After Readercon, I’ll be at Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge at 6:30 pm for a panel with John Wiswell, Scott Lynch, Max Gladstone, and A.T Greenblatt! (Click the link to reserve a seat!)
I hope to see some of you at one place or the other!
Best,
Bear