More Than Once Upon a Time

Apparently the Brooklyn Book Fair is getting hip enough to add a little genre into the mix through a partnership with NY Comic Con.

Sometimes it pays to live in NYC.

Here’s my schedule.

Panel:

Sci Fi and Fantasy in NYC

12:00 pm -1:00 pm

Is there anything hotter than Sci Fi and Fantasy right now? We don’t think so. Join authors S.C. Butler, Peter Brett, Brian Slattery, Anton Strout and Dave Roman as they discuss all that is paranormal in NYC.

Autographing:

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Autographing Table 3

And it might actually be pretty good. Avender in America, a Memoir. In which the Hero of the Stoneways wakes up on an operating table in Pittsburgh.

Huh?

It’s sad and sweet and funny, a celebration of the genre.

I think I’m going to dedicate it to a bookstore and a book.

When: Thu 19:00
Location: P-511CF
Title: That Was the Noughties, That Was
Session ID: 538
All Participants: Carl Fink, Helen Gbala, Michael Skeet, S.C. Butler, Virginia O’Dine
Moderator: S.C. Butler
Description: We’re four months off the end of a decade – time for a
retrospective. What were the best sf/fantasy novels of the last ten
years? What will the decade be remembered for?
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Literature in English
AV/Internet request: None

When: Fri 11:00
Location: P-511D
Title: The Golden Duck Awards for Children’s and YA Science Fiction
Session ID: 565
All Participants: Ben Jeapes, Cathy Petrini, Helen Gbala, Henry
Melton, Janet McNaughton, S.C. Butler, Michèle Laframboise,
Jean-Pierre Guillet, Lindalee Stuckley
Moderator: Lindalee Stuckley
Description: For picture books, the Eleanor Cameron Award for middle
grade books and the Hal Clement Award books for young adults, this
award is designed to encourage the people to write those books that
capture future SF fans. Lindalee Stuckey introduces the award, and is
joined by a number of current authors for children and young adults
for discussion.
Duration: 1:30 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Literature in English
AV/Internet request: None
Notes: This is a session given by Lindalee Stuckley about the Golden
Duck. It is on your programme so that you can go along and join in the
discussion if you want to.

When: Fri 13:00
Location: D-Vitre
Title: Writing Workshop T
Session ID: 668
All Participants: Jean Lorrah, S.C. Butler
Moderator: Yourself
Description: Critique session for previously submitted manuscripts
Duration: 2:00 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Creative Writing
AV/Internet request: None

When: Sat 11:00
Location: P-522B
Title: Reading In and Out of Your Genre(s)
Session ID: 762
All Participants: Brenda Cooper, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeff DeLuzio, S.C. Butler
Moderator:
Description: Some SF writers prefer to read fantasy, and vice versa.
Beyond that, does it behoove writers to read as far and wide as
possible?
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Creative Writing
AV/Internet request: None

When: Sun 15:30
Location: P-513B
Title: SF and Economics
Session ID: 741
All Participants: Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin, Hayden Trenholm, Karl
Schroeder, S.C. Butler, Charles Stross
Moderator: Karl Schroeder
Description: How does a writer incorporate events like the past 12
months into their future society? How does a writer extrapolate
economic theory into far future societies?
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Creative Writing
AV/Internet request: None

When: Sun 17:00
Location: P-512AE
Title: Author Reading
Session ID: 242
All Participants: Janet McNaughton, S.C. Butler, Eoin Colfer, Alison Baird
Moderator:
Description: S. C. Butler; Janet McNaughton; Alison Baird; Eoin Colfer.
Duration: 1:30 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Reading
AV/Internet request: None

Just heard from a friend of a friend that he had a very long chat on the wonderfulness of The Magicians’ Daughter with a security guard at Kennedy airport. The guard saw him carrying the book and wanted the friend of a friend to know he’d read it too. And liked it.

Or so my friend told me. Who knows what the real story was. Confiscation? Strip search for more incriminating contraband?

Here’s the link: Tor.com