My Boskone Schedule

[lagilman]

Since I'll be lugging the laptop and a deadline with me, my schedule is thankfully light:

Sat 12:00 noon: Kaffeklatsch

Sat 3:00pm: Autographing
Laura Anne Gilman
Walter H. Hunt

Sat 5:00pm: From Urban Fantasy to the New Weird: Trends in Fantasy over the Last 20 Years
Mark Del Franco
Laura Anne Gilman
Christopher Stasheff

Sun 12:00 noon: Traps to Avoid: Scams and Other Issues that Can Affect New Writers
So the golden rule is: in any authentic deal, money should flow toward the writer.
What other tips can our panel, old pros at publishing and agenting, offer to help newbies
escape stealth vanity houses, reading services, upfront-billing agents, and other sleazy
snares?
Laura Anne Gilman
Michael Kabongo
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Eleanor Wood

Sun 1:30pm Reading
(pssst, I will be reading from BURNING BRIDGES. And I may have a few giveaways....)

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[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

Sun 1:30pm Reading
(pssst, I will be reading from BURNING BRIDGES. And I may have a few giveaways....)

That's opposite Art Show sales and the art auction, meaning I need to be over at art show sales working on the convention instead, alas.

[lagilman]

They scheduled me opposite the art show auction? What on EARTH was Jim thinking? Someone on the floating art show crew had better have a word with him....

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

from

http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/hours.html (http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/hours.html)

*Art Show Sales will be from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Sunday; Art Show Auction from 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Sunday.

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I don't know if Jim Mann's on LiveJournal, but his wife Laurie Mann is as lauriemann.livejournal.com (lauriemann.livejournal.com) . There's a Boskone meeting I assume before the NESFA February Business Meeting tomorrow and I'll probably mention the scheduling unhappiness to at least one other person working on the art show, but Jim and Laurie live in Pittsburgh, not within an hour or so of the NESFA Clubhouse in Somerville, MA.

I immediately got suspicious about the timing because Boskone almost always has art show closeout for bidsheet auction at noon, with the Wall sweeping out of everyone except art show staff occurring at noon, then next hour being going through the art show identifying what's sold on bid sheet, what's going to the voice auction, what's available for sale for after closeout price when the artshow reopens, and what's supposed to be going home with/to whomever put it in the show (Boskone starting having a section in the artshow for people to resell artwork they'd had for a while and wanted to sell off, last year, and is continuing that this year I believe. Also, some art is agented rather than coming directly from the artist). With all that sorted out there's the voice auction of the pieces taken down, and the re-opening of the artshow for sales and pickup of art. Since 1:30 PM is an hour and a half after the artshow closes for the staff to go through and do the discrimination, I went and checked the Boskone website for the exact times for art show sales and voice auction.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I wish you a good time, but a last day afternoon reading? Um...

[lagilman]

*shrug* You take what the concom gives you, and hope for the best. One convention I had a prime reading spot, and the person after me had such a rowdy crowd waiting that I was totally drowned out. Another time I was oh-god-early in the a.m, in an out of the way room, and I had a very nice turnout.

It's tough, scheduling a convention. Someone's got to take the ouch spots. My turn in the barrel. etc etc voice of experience and resignation.

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

There are morning birds at conventions, including e.g. greeneyed kzin, and there are people who would like to see 9 AM programming in substantiative amounts.

[lagilman]

I'm afaid I'm not seeing the connection between my comment and yours. There are indeed early birds at conventions. I have been known to make 8 am breakfast meetings, even. Although it's never a pretty sight.

That emphasizes my point, though: that scheduling is a tough job (is so-and-so going to be awake? Is so-and-so going to still be here? How many people will actually show up if we make a panel too early/late?) and that everyone gets their shot at both the 'good' slots and the 'bad' ones -- you can't whinge and moan over everything!

(well, you CAN, but that's both tacky and bad guest-manners)

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

I made the comment in response to Another time I was oh-god-early in the a.m, in an out of the way room, and I had a very nice turnout., as regards there being afficionadoes of oh-god-early-in-the-morning program, more of them than most people on concoms want to schedule much programming for (or a lot of program participants be on, though there have been, again, program participants who are early birds. Hal Clement was seen walking around at a convention after midnight once).

[elaine-brennan.livejournal.com]

there will be scotch at Boskone. I'll let you know when and where, in case you're not otherwise occupied!

[lagilman]

*feels the lurve*

And I will have my flask with me as well, natch...

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

I'll be lugging the laptop...

So new? Don't you always bring a laptop with you to get some writing done while at a con?

[lagilman]

So new? Don't you always bring a laptop with you to get some writing done while at a con?

That should be "nu?" and no, I don't. And I try not to bring deadlines, since (IMO) if I have a deadline I have no business being out and about on a convention-sized scale until it's done.

But since I will miss Lunacon, I felt the need to mingle a bit.