My Capclave schedule

Here’s what I’ll be doing at this year’s Capclave. I mean, I’ll be doing a LOT, but here’s what I’m officially doing. Pretty excited.

• Oct. 11 (Saturday) – 10:00 am – The Charms of Dystopia
  Panelists: Paolo Bacigalupi, Tom Doyle, Sunny Moraine, James Morrow, Norm Sherman (M)
  Why is it that anyone would want to read a dystopia? Why are books like The Windup Girl popular and what does the writer and reader get out of them?
• Oct. 11 (Saturday) – 2:30 pm – Reading
• Oct. 11 (Saturday) – 5:00 pm – I Hate His/Her Politics But I Love His/Her Books
  Panelists: Day Al-Mohamed, Paolo Bacigalupi, David G. Hartwell, Larry Hodges, Natalie Luhrs, Sunny Moraine (M)
  Should a personal evaluation of an author be separated from how you view his/her politics? Many people refused to see the movie Ender’s Game because of Orson Scott Card’s statements on homosexuality and other writers charge that political views influence award nominations and who is picked for con programming. Is this true and if so, is it a good thing or a bad thing?
• Oct. 11 (Saturday) – 6:00 pm – The Suck Fairy and Feet of Clay
  Panelists: Barbara Krasnoff (M), Natalie Luhrs, James Maxey, Sunny Moraine
  What do you do when you reread your beloved childhood classics and find they have been visited by the suck fairy and are now sexist, racist, etc? What do you do when you find out that that author that got you through junior high turns out to have giant size 30 clod-hopping feet of clay or was actually kind of evil? How do we deal with problematic works and authors?
• Oct. 11 (Saturday) – 7:30 pm – Mass Signing
  Participants: Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Sarah Avery, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Marilyn “Mattie” Brahen, Neil Clarke, Tom Doyle, Andy Duncan, Scott Edelman, Jim Freund, Charles E. Gannon, Max Gladstone, David G. Hartwell, Alma Katsu, Pamela K. Kinney, Barbara Krasnoff, Dina Leacock, James Maxey, Will McIntosh, Mike McPhail, Sunny Moraine, James Morrow, Sarah Pinsker, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Lawrence M. Schoen, Darrell Schweitzer, Alex Shvartsman, Jon Skovron, Alan Smale, Bud Sparhawk, Janine Spendlove, Genevieve Valentine, Michael A. Ventrella, Lawrence Watt-Evans
  The Saturday evening mass autographing session.
• Oct. 12 (Sunday) – 11:00 am – Romance and SF/F
  Panelists: Catherine Asaro, Victoria Janssen (M), Pamela K. Kinney, Natalie Luhrs, Sunny Moraine
  A significant number of science fiction and fantasy books are reviewed in publications such as Romance Times and nominated for awards in the romance genre. Were the genre line distinctions always artificial? What are romance readers’ expectations with respect to the plot and its resolution? HEA vs. the tragic romance. Is romance handled better or worse in YA SF/F? Are certain types of romance plots (such as first love) more likely to show up in YA?
• Oct. 12 (Sunday) – 3:00 pm – When Did Fangirl Become a Dirty Word?
  Panelists: Emmie Mears, Sunny Moraine, Sherin Nicole, Janine Spendlove, A.C. Wise
  It used to connote enthusiasm, now it implies contempt. Why is this? What can be done to combat this attitude?
• Oct. 12 (Sunday) – 4:00 pm – Why Does My Protagonist Look Like Julie Bell?
  Panelists: Ron Garner, Will McIntosh (M), Sunny Moraine, Lawrence Watt-Evans
  How do books get their covers? What are the best and worst cover illustrations you’ve ever had? Issues such as whitewashing of protagonists of color.