Since I didn’t have a chance to attend WorldCon or Dragon*Con this year, I’ve been jealously watching other people’s adventures. So I thought I’d do a round-up, in case you’re doing the same. Plus, there’s lots and lots of great fantasy and science fiction writing and publishing advice in these posts.
But first, +Scott Edelman tells us one small thing we can do to make others feel welcome at cons.
Moaning Myrtle cosplay photo via ScienceFiction.com
Dragon*Con Fan Posts
- +Stephen Geigen-Miller gathers up 9 things we could do to increase #DiversityinSFF.
- +Le Mont Bennett collected an album of cool cosplay photos.
- +Tested displays a huge number of cosplay photos as well.
- +Mandy Horetski of GeekMom talks about the paranormal track and Phineas and Ferb cosplayers.
- +Chris Tang talks about Dragon*Con and the Starfarers LARP.
- My Charlottean friend and critique partner Darin Kennedy gives a humorous recap of the con with some photos including one of the most adorable baby R2D2s you’ve ever seen!
TONS of Worldcon posts after the jump!
Worldcon: Mostly Writing Posts
- +Dan Thompson gives us a nicely detailed overview of several writing panels from the indie author’s perspective. If you’re a writer, especially an indie author, check this post out. It covers these panels and others:
- Self-Promotion: Everything You Know About It Is Probably Wrong
- The Business Side Of Writing panel
- How To Convert A Book Into E-Book Format panel
- The Role Of An Agent panel
- Literary Estates panel
- Gender In SF panel
- Publishing Intermediaries In The Digital Age panel
- The Shift From Print Publishing To E-Publishing panel
- The Changing Economics Of Book Production And Distribution panel
- +Steven Radecki brings us a ton of blow-by-blow panel reports, including:
- How To Obtain An Agent panel
- What Makes A Review Great panel
- Self-Promotion: Everything You Know About It Is Probably Wrong panel
- Best Practices From Booksellers panel
- How To Convert A Book Into E-Book Format panel
- Reproductive Technology, Medical Ethics And The Law panel
- The Relationship Between Writers And Editors panel
- The Future Of The Small Press panel, which Steven notes was less doom and gloom than he expected
- How To Build A Successful Book Launch Campaign panel
- Wiring The Brain panel
- Planning A Starship panel
- But Why Can’t You See My Genius, a panel about rejection
- Publishing Intermediaries In The Digital Age, more of a blow-by-blow post
- The Shift From Print Publishing To E-Publishing panel
- Writing Combat panel
- The Current State Of US Copyright Law panel
- +Rebecca Schwarz tells about the SFF implications of biology in the All Of Biology In One Hour panel and gives a breakdown of several more panels in her Emerging From The Vortex post, including:
- Graphic Novels You Should Be Reading panel
- The Things They Never Tell You About Getting Published The First Time panel
- Editor And Writers panel
- A writer’s workshop
- +Evan “Skwid” Langlinais provides archives of his pre-2013 Worldcon posts and was kind enough to do a very detailed blow-by-blow of many panels, which can be found on Google+ under the hashtag #PanelNotes. Selections below are in Google Doc form:
- Coming Of Age In The 60s panel
- Impact Of Aaron Schwartz panel
- Machine Consciousness panel
- If Corporations Are People… panel
- Colossus, Skynet, Or The Culture panel
- Reproductive Technology, Medical Ethics And The Law panel
- Gender In SF panel
- +Martha Wells talks about the What Happened to Happy Endings panel and the Booksworn eat-a-bug-for-a-book party.
- +Madeline Ashby addresses the lack of age diversity at Worldcon, the lack of a YA category in the Hugos, and other issues in momento mori.
- +Cheryl Martin writes about Feeling Erased From the Worldcon Picture.
- +Shauny Jen / Skiffy and Fanty do a Worldcon walk-by podcast.
- +Dan Absalonson writes that Brandon Sanderson Wants Worldcon 2015 In My Hometown. (And so it shall be!)
- +Geoff Livingston shows Worldcon in photos with PICTORIAL: The Worldcon Experience.
- +Marshall Ryan Maresca gives his AfterReport Proper.
- +Jayme Blaschke talks about how science fiction writers lose their cool around astronauts.
- +Mark Oshiro (aka Mark Reads and Mark Does Stuff) relates how even being a Hugo Loser is pretty damn awesome.
If you’ve made it this far, you should definitely check out this Dragon*Con Justice League vs. Avengers cosplay video:
Have you been to a Dragon*Con or WorldCon before? Would you recommend the experience to other fans of science fiction and fantasy? Leave a comment below.
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