ApolloCon Schedule (tentative until happening)

[alfreda89]

Fri 1900-2000 Opening Ceremonies Seattle I
Conchair Mark B. Hall welcomes attendees to ApolloCon and introduces the concom and our guests. Please attend if you are available.

Fri 2200-2300 Yard Dog Press Traveling Road Show Phoenix
Selina Rosen and Yard Dog Press authors read from upcoming works, perform interpretive dance, and just generally put on a good show. Selina Rosen & Yard Dogs

Sat 1000-1100 Autographs: Beverly A. Hale, K. Hutson Price, Katherine Eliska Kimbriel Autograph Table

Sat 1500-1600 Writing 101 Seattle II
Panelists offer their observations and experience to new and developing writers and answer questions from the audience. Everything is fair game from "where ideas come from" to "when you can quit your day job" and anything else related to writing, revising, getting published, getting famous, and staying solvent in the process.
Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Alexis Glynn Latner (M), Julia Mandala, Martha Wells

Sat 1700-1800 Anime 101: What SF/F Fans Should Know About Anime Seattle II
Panelists discuss the Anime in the context of SF/F/H and take questions from the audience. Topics might include basic Anime concepts, popular anime series with SF/F/H elements, relationship to manga; western SF/F influence on anime & vice versa; where to find it; panelists preferences on dubbing versus subtitling.
Jeff Duncan, Rebecca Elsenheimer (M), Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

Sun 1100-1200 Was Bridget Jones a Trekkie? ChickLit meets SpecFic Seattle I
There is a growing segment of the romance market dealing with fantasy, horror and other spec genres. How do these crossover genres relate to spec fic generally? Will this bring more people into fandom? What publishers are working on these lines? Who are the new authors? What are the appeals to readers and to writers of these crossovers?

Beverly A. Hale (M), Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Shanna Swensdon, Kathy Thornton
Sun 1400-1500 Yesterday's Tomorrow is the Past: The Gernsback Continuum Revisited Seattle I
Science fiction has speculated on technological wonders for decades. Now that we've passed 1984, 1999 and 2001, what notable science fiction and science fact speculations have yet to be made real? Given what we know now, do we still want them? Were some of them not good ideas to start with?
Paul Abell (M), Bennie Grezlik, Kandy Jarvis, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Matt Reiten

Comments

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

oooooooo a dilk goh I wanna go


ok all i wanna do if filk but still


sigh

damn responsibillities....not that I don't love every sticky head on their hairs.....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Depending on the guests, sometimes there's filking at ArmadilloCon -- and the music room at WFC is incredible, but usually more real folk/celtic/writer-filk.

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

yeah I ran filk at armidillo con a couple of years and quit because I am lazy and there wasn't any real support for filk, gaming or doing anything different than the way it had been done forever.........and I didn't fit in the fact click i guess....donno they probably thought I was a NW fandom snob but FACT drove me out of fandom for the most part....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I think this town could support another group interested in gaming/filk/media/costuming, but someone has to care enough to organize it.

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

nope no music at WFC I jsut got word back.......

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Music is not filking -- it's a bunch of editors and writers and other guests who just pick a big area or a lecture room not being used for programming at night. they bring instruments and play ballads and folk music, etc.

So -- if you asked about filking, uh-uh. But if they said no music at all, I may have to get the place cleaned up so there's a place for a house party . . .. I don't think WFC has changed that much?!

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

I asked about music and was told there is no music at WFC as it is a professional litteray and art convention and not for fans.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Go check some of the older WFC websites. I think you'll see pics on-line of the impromptu Celtic singing/playing -- unless David Hartwell decided it was too popular and put the kibosh on it.

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

When are you headed to the con?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Friday sometime -- the other two writers have the car, W will follow on Saturday.