Schlock Mercenary

Schlock Mercenary: February 10, 2012

2012-02-10T06:00:00Z

Schlock Mercenary: February 9, 2012

2012-02-09T06:00:00Z

LTUE 30: Howard's Schedule

2012-02-09T05:00:00Z

LTUE starts today. For much of the event I'll be squirreled away in the Dealers' Room, but I do have some panels.

Sorry for the absence of room numbers. I don't have those yet!

THURSDAY

4:00pm - Writing Humor -- I'll try to tell you everything I know about this in an hour.

FRIDAY

2:00pm - Writing Excuses, Recorded Live! -- Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler with guests James A. Owen, Larry Correia, James Dashner, and others. This is a two-hour session carved up into twenty-minute segments.

5:00pm - Science Fiction and Computing -- Howard Tayler, David Ferro, and Eric Swedin. The three of us will talk about the intersection of these two domains, and how they resulted in a very cool book of essays.

SATURDAY

11:00am - How Does Geography Affect Your Story -- Joshua Perkey, Isaac Stewart, Howard Tayler, and Robert J. Defendi. I think this is the one where Josh, Isaac and I attempt to be heard over Bob.

4:00pm - Artists on Art -- James A. Owen, Brian Hailes, Kevin Wasden, and Howard Tayler. I'm moderating this show, and it should be fun.

Schlock Mercenary: February 8, 2012

2012-02-08T06:00:00Z

Schlock Mercenary: February 7, 2012

2012-02-07T06:00:00Z

Impending Conventioneering

2012-02-07T05:00:00Z

I need to get back to scripting stuff, but let me take a moment to to direct you to my 2012 Appearance Schedule, since the odds are good that I'll be within 250 miles of a lot of you (assuming a lot of you live within 250 miles of NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Indianapolis, Huntsville, or Salt Lake City.)

Some immediately impending highlights:

In just two days I'll be at Life, The Universe, and Everything: The Marion K. Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy (but you can call it LTUE, unless you're a dispassionately semi-literate monkey-sloth and want to pronounce it "lute") along with the whole Writing Excuses crew -- Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Producer Jordo "@MonkeySloth" Sanderson. Utah has a fantastic community of genre-fiction writers, and this event is in large measure the reason for that. It's in the Sorensen Center on the UVU campus in Orem. If you're in Utah you shouldn't miss this.

Just a month later I'll be in New York for Lunacon. You should know about this now because memberships are $50 up until February 20th, 2012, after which the price goes up to $60 (children ages 6-12 are $20 until February 20th and will be $30 afterwards.) You can pre-register at www.lunacon.org. Also, note that discount rooms are going fast. The code for those is Luna12.

A mere two weeks after that I'll be at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. Why am I attending a horror convention? Mostly because Mike Mignola is the guest of honor, and how can I miss that if it's just 40 miles from my house?

It IS Cool

2012-02-06T23:00:00Z

Schlock Mercenary got nominated for the “Favorite Comic Book Team” @$$ie Award over at Ain’t It Cool News.

This post is exactly as long as the text mentioning Schlock Mercenary. I will cheerfully take every word of positive review I can get. Here’s to all fifty-one of them.

Schlock Mercenary: February 6, 2012

2012-02-06T06:00:00Z

Schlock Mercenary: February 5, 2012

2012-02-05T06:00:00Z

Schlock Mercenary: February 4, 2012

2012-02-04T06:00:00Z