Journeymen Writers Meeting moderator Sat 11:30AM – 1:00PM 629

A place for journeymen writers to discuss business, craft, marketing strategies, or anything else we like. Open to anyone with one or more SFWA–qualifying sales. Check with the moderator if you’re not sure about your sales. Bring your own lunch.

Lightspeed Magazine Launch Event participant Sat 10:30 – 11:45PM Conference 2

Join us to celebrate the launch of Lightspeed Magazine (www.lightspeedmagazine.com), a new online science fiction magazine published by Prime Books (publisher of Fantasy Magazine). Lightspeed editors John Joseph Adams and Andrea Kail, along with publisher Sean Wallace, will be on hand to discuss this exciting new venture, and will present readings by the authors.

Once Upon a Time moderator Sun 1:00 – 2:15PM Senate A

Pro writers use the card game “Once Upon a Time” to tell half–baked fairy tales for laughs. Find out what happens when four panelists play tug–of–war on a story, trying to bend it towards wildly different endings.

Taboo III: Now with Even More Taboo! participant Sun 2:30 – 3:45PM Conference 2

The authors will be reading from transgressive and challenging work. No topic is off–limits.

Including Disabled Characters in Your Work(s) participant Mon 10:00 – 11:15AM Assembly

How to include disabled people in your works—and how not to. For example: don’t kill them, use them as decor, de–humanize them, or cure them. What are some good examples of authors who include characters with disabilities in their works?