My CapClave Schedule

If you’re going to be attending Capclave in Maryland next weekend (October 14-16), here’s where to find me…

Friday @ night
in the bar

Saturday @ 12:00 PM
Panel: Interstitial Societies

Saturday @ 2:00 PM
Panel: Real Other Characters

Saturday @ 7:00 PM
Panel: Making Fictional Cities Come Alive

Saturday @ 8pm
Mass signing

Sunday @ 12:00 PM
individual signing

Sunday @ 1:30 PM
reading

(yes, the reading is AFTER the signing. No, I don’t know why)

I don’t know if copies of THE SHATTERED VINE will be available yet – but you can win a set of the entire trilogy via the Silent Auction, to benefit the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund!  I will have copies of DRAGON VIRUS with me.

originally published at Practical Meerkat: A Bog

"Activist" is the active tense.

Every time someone disses #OWS for not being what THEY think is effective, I wonder - "and what are YOU doing, then?" Mostly, it's nothing.

I've little patience w/ them as won't do their share of the heavy lifting, but still expect to be carried.

Over break-the-fast dinner Saturday night, my parents told about hearing the tanks rolling into Newark during the riots, and about having things thrown at them when they marched during civil rights protests. My grandmother protested against the Vietnam war. My sister risked her heath and was arrested ("for an hour") protesting Monsanto's pollution of the public waterways.

Nobody asks you to carry the whole weight. But pick up a corner, and do what you can.