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tx+='I started working at Tor in June 2003 and began attending conventions professionally the following year. I’m probably missing some information here and there, but this list should give you a good sense of the conventions I’ve been to and the panels I’ve participated in.
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tx+='Upcoming Appearances (panel schedule TBD):
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tx+='- 10/09: SteamCon
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tx+='- 11/09: World Fantasy
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tx+='Past conventions, in reverse chronological order:
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tx+='- 8/09: WorldCon: "Steampunk: Fish or Fowl?," "Comics and SF as a Dominant Source of Literary and Entertainment Paradigms," “Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over”
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tx+='- 7/09: ReaderCon: "Annual Interstitial Arts Town Meeting," "Outsider Artists and Speculative Fiction"
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tx+='- 7/09: not really a convention, but I co-designed and ran a game called “Signals on the S” in Come Out and Play, an annual festival dedicated to large-scale street games
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tx+='- 6/09: MoCCA Art Festival Art Festival: Volunteer Coordinator
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tx+='- 5/09: WisCon: “Coffee, Tea, and Subversion,” “So You Want to Be Published? Are You Your Own Biggest Roadblock?” (moderator), “Internet Publishing for Science Fiction Authors,” “Consistency vs. Variety”
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tx+='- 2/09: New York Comic Con: “Tor.com: Jumping in Headfirst”
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tx+='- 1/09: Vericon (no panels)
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tx+='- 10/08: Conflux in Canberra, Australia. Editor GoH. Panels included “Where are the Laughs?,” “Rewriting: the Real Art of a Good Story,” “Without the Universal Translator,” “All Aboard the SS Steampunk,” “Authors and Editors: How to Make the Relationship Work,” a “Guest Spot,” which I ran as an hour-long slot on a general introduction to SF publishing, and opening and closing ceremony.
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tx+='- 9/08: Brooklyn Book Festival (no panels)
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tx+='- 9/08: Decatur Book Festival (no panels)
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tx+='- 8/08: DragonCon: “What Editors Want from You!”
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tx+='- 8/08: WorldCon (Denvention 3): “Working with Science and Science Fiction Museums,” “What Happened to Novels Under 300 Pages?” (moderator), “What\'s Upcoming at Tor Books”
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tx+='- 7/08: Comic Con International (no panels)
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tx+='- 7/08: ReaderCon: “Breaking Into the Ghetto,” “Steampunk and Beyond: What Would a ‘Gibson Chair’ Look Like?,” “Interstial Arts,” “Podcasts of Mars.” Audio recording of steampunk panel here)
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tx+='- 6/08: MoCCA Art Festival Art Festival: Volunteer Coordinator
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tx+='- 5/08: WisCon 32: “Does It Have to Get Boring Before it Gets Good?” (moderator), “The Fictional Is Political--Political SF/F Of Both Sorts”
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tx+='- 4/08: I-CON 27: “Are There Alternatives to Mainstream Publishing?,” “\'Gems’ From the Slushpile: pros share their amusing (and scary) stories of memorable (for the wrong reasons) submissions,” “New Horizons: will there be new combinations or will an entirely new genre be the next big thing?,” “Scalpel to Hatchet: The Joys of Editing,” “The Agent-Editor-Writer Relationship,” “Lies and Myths About Getting Published: A surprising take on ‘accepted’ ideas about publishing”
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tx+='- 4/08: New York Comic Con: “Let the Magic Begin—Fantasy in Comics: Creating Alternate Worlds” (moderator)
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tx+='- 3/08: OmegaCon: “How to Edit Yourself,” “Nightmare Tails of Agents/Editors/Publishers,” “TOR Universe”
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tx+='- 11/07: World Fantasy: “The Ghosts in Shakespeare” (moderator)
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tx+='- 9/07: Brooklyn Book Festival (no panels)
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tx+='- 8/07: Willamette Writers Conference: Editors Q&A, taught a 90 minute class on getting published in SF
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tx+='- 7/07: San Diego Comic Con: “What’s New At Tor”
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tx+='- 7/07: ReaderCon 18(no panels)
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tx+='- 6/07: MoCCA Art Festival Art Festival: Volunteer Coordinator
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tx+='- 5/07: WisCon 31: “Making Good Books” (moderator), “Speculative Fiction Theatre” (moderator), auditions for Juvenilia (staged reading of a play), “Boy Books? Girl Books?”
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tx+='- 5/07: Nebulas (no panels)
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tx+='- 4/07: moderated a panel on “Interstitiality and the Comic Book Industry” panel at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on behalf of the Interstitial Arts Foundation
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tx+='- 3/07: World Horror Convention: individual pitch sessions
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tx+='- 3/07: Lunacon 50: “How to Avoid Publishing Scams”, “Book Editors’ Roundtable,” “The Other Mythologies,” “Escaping the Slush”
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tx+='- 2/07: New York Comic Con: “Breaking into SF/Fantasy Publishing: GPS for Aspiring Authors”
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tx+='- 1/07: Vericon VI (no panels)
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tx+='- 11/06: World Fantasy Convention (no panels)
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tx+='- 9/06: Brooklyn Book Festival (no panels)
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tx+='- 8/06: LaConIV (World Science Fiction Convention) (no panels)
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tx+='- 7/06: Pacific Northwest Writers Association: editor Q&A panel
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tx+='- 7/06: ReaderCon 17 (no panels)
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tx+='- 6/06: MoCCA Art Festival Art Festival: Volunteer Coordinator
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tx+='- 5/06: WisCon 30: “Future Earth: Realistic world building across age and family,” “The Moral of the Story” (moderator)
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tx+='- 5/06: World Horror Convention: “Where Sword & Scorcery and Horror Meet” (moderator), “Writing Series Fiction” (moderator)
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tx+='- 2/06: New York Comic-Con (no panels)
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tx+='- 2/06: Boskone 43 (no panels)
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tx+='- 1/06: Vericon VI (no panels)
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tx+='- 11/05: World Fantasy 2005: “I Am The Audience”
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tx+='- 9/05: SPX (Small Press Expo) (no panels)
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tx+='- 6/05: MoCCA Art Festival Art Festival: Volunteer Coordinator
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tx+='- 5/05: WisCon 29: “Death in Myth and Folklore”, “Cover letters, manuscripts, and rejections: back to basics.” (moderator), “Promoting Your Novel” (moderator)
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tx+='- 4/05: World Horror Convention: “The Path of a Book from Start to Finish through Tor”
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tx+='- 3/05: Lunacon: “Writing Women in Fantasy,” “Alternate History/Alternate Fantasy,” “Guilty Pleasures,” “What’s Wrong with Elves?”
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tx+='- 1/05: Vericon V (no panels)
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tx+='- 9/04: Noreascon (World Science Fiction Convention): “How Not to Write Science Fiction”, Kaffeeklatsch, “Geek Girls Unite!” (solo discussion), “Why We Hate Our Heroes” (moderator)
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tx+='- 6/04: MoCCA Art Festival: Festival Director
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tx+='- 5/04: WisCon 28: “Dialogue: Back to basics,” “A question of style,” “Square Pegs - One Size Does Not Fit All!,” “Guilty Secrets, Guilty Pleasures”
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tx+='- 1/04: Vericon IV: Introduction to Publishing
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