A Post About World Fantasy Convention

Today’s Magical Words post is a bit late, but that’s because I’ve just returned from World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California. My post about the con can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C. E. Murphy.

World Fantasy Convention, Here I Come!

Off tomorrow to World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California.  WFC is, year in and year out, my favorite convention.  It is big but not huge, with a strong emphasis on reading, writing, and publishing.  It’s always attended by lots of writers, editors and agents, making it a great place to meet up with old friends and get some business done.

On Wednesday night, from 6:30-8:00, I’ll be signing books along with a mass of sf/fantasy writers at Borderland Books, in San Francisco.

I’ll be moderating a panel on Friday morning at 10:00.  The panel is called “Writing Human Characters, Whether or not They’re Human,” and the other panelists are Kate Elliott, Kay Kenyon, Laurel Anne Hill, and Shauna Roberts.  Should be a fun discussion.

Other than that, I’ll be going to readings, catching up with old friends, meeting with my agent and editor, and spending a good deal of time at parties and in the bar.  Hope to see some of you there — please, if you see me, come and introduce yourselves.

A Post about ConCarolinas, and a Bit More…

 Today’s post — “Back from ConCarolinas…” — can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the writing blog I maintain with fellow fantasy authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C. E. Murphy.  Faith and Misty were at the con, too, and we had a great time.  As always, attending the convention got me thinking about the profession and about my writing.  That’s what the post is about.  So visit the MagicalWords site and enjoy the post.

Hello from the Carolinas!

Greetings from the road!  I’m currently at the home of my good friend and fellow Magical Words blogger, Faith Hunter.  She and her husband, Rod, have been wonderful hosts.  Last night we had a signing with another fellow MW blogger, Misty Massey, and also author Gail Z Martin.  It was not the best attended signing I’ve ever had, but it might well have been the most fun.  Italian dinner afterwards, also great fun.  All in all, a good start to the trip.  Today we’ll be heading up to Charlotte, NC for ConCarolinas.  Hope to see some of you there.

Today at Magical Words, we have a special guest blogger.  Author Mindy Klasky has posted a piece on her career path and is now answering questions and responding to comments.  Stop by the site and say hello!

On My Way Out the Door

On the road again….

Leaving this morning for the Carolinas — a signing tonight at the Barnes and Noble in Pineville, NC with Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and Gail Martin.  Then on to Charlotte for ConCarolinas tomorrow.  More from the road as travel and events allow.  Hope to see some of you soon!

(For details on the events see the posts below or my website http://www.DavidBCoe.com.  Both have links to the bookstore and the convention.

More From RavenCon

RavenCon has been great fun.  I’ve caught up with old friends — Ed Schubert, Gail Martin, Stuart Jaffe, Misty Massey and her husband Todd, Bryan Prindiville, James Maxey, Mike Kabongo, Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Mike McPhail, Jagi Lamplighter and John Wright, Jamie Rubin, and several others I’m forgetting right now (it’s late and I might have had a beer or three). I’ve also met some new friends — Maggie Stiefvater, Gray Rinehart, Valerie Griswold-Ford, to name a few.  I’ve been invited to submit stories for a couple of anthologies, I’ve discussed a collaboration with a friend, I’ve signed a few books and spoken on a few panels and laughed a great deal.

Good con.

At RavenCon!

Okay, let me start with an apology to all the Edgar Allen Poe fans out there. I actually do know that this year marks Poe’s 200th birthday and not his 150th. I just had a brain-fart moment while writing Wednesday’s post, and I’m sorry for that. Whatever year it is, I will be reading “The Tell-Tale Heart” tonight here at RavenCon to help commemorate Poe’s birthday. If you’re at the con please stop by. I’ll also be reading from one of my own stories or books (not sure which yet) on Sunday morning at 10:30. Please stop by for that, too.

I’ve already run into Misty Massey (with whom I blog at http://Magicalwords.net ) and several other friends, and I look forward to seeing more familiar faces as the weekend goes on. I got to hear Misty’s reading, which was wonderful, and I saw an Edgar Allen Poe action figure for sale, which I might just have to buy…. More as it develops!

Back on the Road Again…

So, I’m off to Richmond, Virginia tomorrow for RavenCon.  I’ll get to see many good friends, I’ll be on a panel or three, I’ll do a reading from one book or another, and since the con is honoring Edgar Allen Poe’s 150th birthday this year, I’ll also be doing a Friday night reading of “The Tell-Tale Heart.”  If you’re in the area, please stop by.

I’ll be posting occasionally from the road, and will have a new post up at SFNovelists tomorrow morning.

More as the weekend develops….

Interview with Edmund Schubert

I’ve mentioned Edmund Schubert in this space many times before.  Ed is the editor of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.  He also edits a couple of magaizines outside our genre.  He’s written many short stories, and as of this month he is a published novelist.  He’s a dad, a Mets fan, and the owner of several very loud shirts that he insists on wearing to conventions.  In addition to all of this, he’s incredibly bright, outrageously funny, and as nice a person as you could every hope to meet.  He and I give each other a hard time whenever we’re together, but the fact is he’s one of my favorite people in the world.  With his first novel, Dreaming Creek, now in print and available from your favorite book dealers, I thought this was a good time to post an interview.  (I’m pretty clever that way.)  Enjoy

 

Happy Halloween

This is kind of a special Halloween for me.  Usually I’m off at World Fantasy Convention this time of the year.  I’ve missed almost all of the past ten Halloweens.  And I would have been at WFC this year (in Calgary) but the spike in fuel prices made the airfare too high, so I’m skipping it.  And that means I get to spend Halloween with my kids.  I’ll be taking the younger one trick-or-treating, and Nancy and I will be hosting a sleepover for the older one with her three best friends.  They’re all hooked on ”Buffy,” and we have the complete boxed set.  I’m looking forward to it.

Hope all of you have a great Halloween.