It's very much a con! It's VERICON!

[seanan_mcguire]

I will be appearing at Harvard University's very own Vericon this weekend, along with such luminaries as Tamora "I shaped your childhood and swear like a sailor" Pierce, and N.K. "We were on the Hugo ballot for the first time in the same year and are now bound in blood, ink, and tears" Jemisin. It's going to be awesome! Even if it does require me to fly to Boston first. In the middle of the winter. To where the snow lives.

If you're local to the Boston area, swing on by! Here's my schedule:

Saturday 12:30pm-1:30pm: A panel on constructing identity; how to flesh out different types of characters, as well as writing to an audience that identifies as fans of speculative fiction.
Saturday 2:00pm-3:00pm: A panel on supernatural/nonhuman creatures; how writers create concepts of supernatural creatures or interpret pre-existing myths; additionally, how to write sympathetic nonhuman characters.

I will also be signing on Saturday from 4:30-5:15pm at the Harvard Bookstore, along with some of the other authors. Whole lotta shin, little bit of dig.

I hope to see you there, and I hope you'll bring me Diet Dr Pepper, because the jet lag is going to be brutal on this one. Seriously. You may get to see me having a conversation with the space lobsters, and that's always fun.

Vericon!

Comments

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I wish I could, but I'm wokring! Then I could tell you all about how I finished Deadline without access to wifi for the afternoon and deliberately took the long route home so I could poach wifi from the (closed) Boston Public Library and download Blackout so I could start reading RIGHT AWAY.

And how it's all spectralbovine's fault, but then, almost everything is.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

that's right.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

We blame him for all things. :)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Aaaah I will be fanboying N.K. Jemisin in spirit.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

She is ver' sweet.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I'll be there, it's just a few T stops from home. :)

I think you have my email, ping me if you need anything, okay?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Bliss.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I shall be there! And I will have to take time away from helping run Osiris Sanction on Saturday to come to your panels as Verity. (I still have not mastered Walking in Heels. Frack.)

I also have my Kel cosplay, and the differences between those characters' clothes amuses me greatly. At least I'm the right height for Kel.

[dragonsong.livejournal.com]

You get major awesome points for doing Kel cosplay! That's fantastic!

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

Ironically, mabfan, who introduced me to Seanan, took this photo when I came to work as Kel for Halloween: http://stormsdotter.tumblr.com/post/42370301500/my-kel-cosplay-from-the-protector-of-the-small

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It was so great to see you!

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

One of my best friends works at the Harvard Bookstore! I am re-arranging my schedule as we type!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[epiphyllums.livejournal.com]

You, Tamora Pierce and the possibility of space lobsters is almost enough for me to start booking a flight.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Me + Tammy = good times.

[melebeth]

WAAAAAAAH. I'm leaving town to go to NY this weekend. Otherwise I'd totally bring you a Diet Dr. Pepper :) The space lobsters are much more entertaining with caffeine!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Truth!

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

Damn damn damn! I actually am geographically nearby, but previous plans take me to the foreign kingdom of Connecticut this weekend!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Alas!

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

see me having a conversation with the space lobsters, and that's always fun

they have a claw accent when they click...

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

And they talk back!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very disappointed we won't be able to see you but life is too chaotic with Passover on the horizon. Hopefully we can meet up next time you're in town.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping.

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

I cannot make it (curse you, event in New Jersey!) but I will be a fanboy in spirit!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

<3

[madfilkentist]

We got the snow out of the way earlier this week. I won't be there Friday night but will be there Saturday.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

It is NOT the middle of winter. It's the first week of Spring! And a few days ago, there was even grass visible. I saw daffodil spikes!

All under the snow cover atm, but that's a moot point. It's Spring! Spring, I tell you!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. *dubious*

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

You have a lot of competition with PAX East that weekend! I hope you get a good turn out :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It was great!

[cgbookcat1.livejournal.com]

Yay! I will bring a book to have signed!

I have no carbonated caffeine, but I do have homemade spiced apple butter. Would you like a jar? (requires a checked bag or lots of hungry friends)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you for coming!

[indigoraven.livejournal.com]

I registered for the con the first day registration was open... and then had no choice but to spend this past weekend buried under a mountain of work in my studio. To be sure, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. I hope you had an excellent time and that New England treated you like the badass princess you are.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Oooooh noooooo. :(

It was cold but good.