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Aug. 3rd, 2007 08:44 pmThe Conflux Minicon starts at lunchtime tomorrow. My hour-of-peril is 9 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT + 10). You can ask all the difficult questions you like, or you can stir me, or you can line up (neatly) and ask for chocolate (I always give out chocolate at conventions).
Let me make it simple. To participate in the Minicon (free, online - and there will be random book prizes), you simply register here and turn up in the right section at the right time.
It would be churlish of me not to admit there are much more interesting people than me with their very own hours-of-peril (though none - I contend - who uses 'churlish' with such natural aplomb), so here's an annotated version of the timetable:
Saturday August 4
12pm Keith Stevenson – very tall editor and publisher
1pm Donna Maree Hanson – writer, editor, publisher, ex-con chair, Conflux 4 guest - we want to put her on a power grid along with Nicole - we reckon their energy could supply electricity to Gungahlin
2pm Chris Barnes – writer, weapon specialist and amazingly wonderful and brilliant and scintillating person (he's very tall - and he wields a very big sword)
3pm Richard Harland – writer and possessor of warped mind (read The Vicar of Morbing Vyle and The Black Crusade if you don't believe me)
4pm Nicole R Murphy – writer, editor, Conflux 4 chair, force of nature - the other half of the power grid.
5pm Simon Brown – writer, Conflux 4 guest - so nice a person that I wonder if he's an arch-villain in secret. My favourite book of his is Winter.
6pm Mark Deniz and Sharyn Lilley – publishers and editors - Mark and Sharyn both have alter egos. Go ask them about it. Especially ask Mark why he hates monkeys.
7pm Fiona McLennan – website designer, eMarketing expert, web goddess. Owned by wonderful cats.
8pm Karen Miller – writer - proof that writing fanfiction can lead to immaculately professional original fiction (read The Innocent Mage duology if you don't believe me).
9pm Gillian Polack – writer, historian - someone might have to help out with this one since I can't think of anything to say
10pm Melaina Faranda – writer - I don't think I know Melaina, sorry
11pm Jason Nahrung – writer - I've always thought Jason looks like a pirate. If he is one, then he's a particularly intelligent variety of pirate, who writes gorgeous vampirish stuff (The Darkness Within).
Sunday August 5
12am Glenda Larke – writer - has a ticket-of-leave from watching birds in Malaysian swamps just for us. I can't make up my mind which of her two trilogies to recommend, which means I have to recommend them all.
1am SciFi in Cyberspace – online discussion group - What *do* you get when a Dr Who problogger and a Stargate problogger have an hour in the middle of a bunch of fiction writers?
2am Karen Traviss – writer - City of Pearl and sequels. If you haven't read it recently, then it's time to re-read it (I love that book). If there's overlap between the Cyberspace people and Karen life could get interesting, because Karen also writes Star Wars books (the other Karen writes Stargate books, don't get confused).
3am Russell Kirkpatrick – writer and cartographer and possessor of evil sense of humour. Worth staying up half the night to ask him about the maps in certain fantasy volumes - the foaming at the mouth is particularly impressive. In fact, I promise to stay up til then, just to watch.
4am “Dinner break” - I'm not sure I know this writer.
5am Kaaron Warren – writer, Conflux 4 guest - evil horror writer, currently in Fiji. Words such as "cannibalism" appear in her blog on a regular basis, which makes me wonder.
6am Maxine McArthur – writer, horse lover and soon-to-be-guest for my Wednesday class (wahoo!)
7am Anita Bell – writer - Anita fits more in a day than I fit into a week. I feel tired just thinking about it.
8am Sharyn November – editor with Penguin America - one day we will lure Ms November to Canberra: it nearly happened this year, but life intervened.
9am Jonathan Strahan – editor - Coode Street personified - he knows so much about the international short story stuff that he scares me
10am Fiona McIntosh – writer - Odalisque (need I say more?)
11am Garth Nix – writer - Sabriel is one of my alltime favourite books. Every time I see Garth (you know, once every two years) I try to persuade him that the world needs a novel set in Ancelstierre. He only knows me slightly, and so is still polite - eventually, though, he will rap me over the knuckles.
Let me make it simple. To participate in the Minicon (free, online - and there will be random book prizes), you simply register here and turn up in the right section at the right time.
It would be churlish of me not to admit there are much more interesting people than me with their very own hours-of-peril (though none - I contend - who uses 'churlish' with such natural aplomb), so here's an annotated version of the timetable:
Saturday August 4
12pm Keith Stevenson – very tall editor and publisher
1pm Donna Maree Hanson – writer, editor, publisher, ex-con chair, Conflux 4 guest - we want to put her on a power grid along with Nicole - we reckon their energy could supply electricity to Gungahlin
2pm Chris Barnes – writer, weapon specialist and amazingly wonderful and brilliant and scintillating person (he's very tall - and he wields a very big sword)
3pm Richard Harland – writer and possessor of warped mind (read The Vicar of Morbing Vyle and The Black Crusade if you don't believe me)
4pm Nicole R Murphy – writer, editor, Conflux 4 chair, force of nature - the other half of the power grid.
5pm Simon Brown – writer, Conflux 4 guest - so nice a person that I wonder if he's an arch-villain in secret. My favourite book of his is Winter.
6pm Mark Deniz and Sharyn Lilley – publishers and editors - Mark and Sharyn both have alter egos. Go ask them about it. Especially ask Mark why he hates monkeys.
7pm Fiona McLennan – website designer, eMarketing expert, web goddess. Owned by wonderful cats.
8pm Karen Miller – writer - proof that writing fanfiction can lead to immaculately professional original fiction (read The Innocent Mage duology if you don't believe me).
9pm Gillian Polack – writer, historian - someone might have to help out with this one since I can't think of anything to say
10pm Melaina Faranda – writer - I don't think I know Melaina, sorry
11pm Jason Nahrung – writer - I've always thought Jason looks like a pirate. If he is one, then he's a particularly intelligent variety of pirate, who writes gorgeous vampirish stuff (The Darkness Within).
Sunday August 5
12am Glenda Larke – writer - has a ticket-of-leave from watching birds in Malaysian swamps just for us. I can't make up my mind which of her two trilogies to recommend, which means I have to recommend them all.
1am SciFi in Cyberspace – online discussion group - What *do* you get when a Dr Who problogger and a Stargate problogger have an hour in the middle of a bunch of fiction writers?
2am Karen Traviss – writer - City of Pearl and sequels. If you haven't read it recently, then it's time to re-read it (I love that book). If there's overlap between the Cyberspace people and Karen life could get interesting, because Karen also writes Star Wars books (the other Karen writes Stargate books, don't get confused).
3am Russell Kirkpatrick – writer and cartographer and possessor of evil sense of humour. Worth staying up half the night to ask him about the maps in certain fantasy volumes - the foaming at the mouth is particularly impressive. In fact, I promise to stay up til then, just to watch.
4am “Dinner break” - I'm not sure I know this writer.
5am Kaaron Warren – writer, Conflux 4 guest - evil horror writer, currently in Fiji. Words such as "cannibalism" appear in her blog on a regular basis, which makes me wonder.
6am Maxine McArthur – writer, horse lover and soon-to-be-guest for my Wednesday class (wahoo!)
7am Anita Bell – writer - Anita fits more in a day than I fit into a week. I feel tired just thinking about it.
8am Sharyn November – editor with Penguin America - one day we will lure Ms November to Canberra: it nearly happened this year, but life intervened.
9am Jonathan Strahan – editor - Coode Street personified - he knows so much about the international short story stuff that he scares me
10am Fiona McIntosh – writer - Odalisque (need I say more?)
11am Garth Nix – writer - Sabriel is one of my alltime favourite books. Every time I see Garth (you know, once every two years) I try to persuade him that the world needs a novel set in Ancelstierre. He only knows me slightly, and so is still polite - eventually, though, he will rap me over the knuckles.