This weekend (August 22-24) is Bubonicon, the Albuquerque SF/F convention.  I’ll be there for at least parts of all three days.

Friday, I’m on the very first panel of the convention: “Fool’s Gold-The Marriage of Magic and Science.”  The subject, if you haven’t guessed from the title, is Alchemy.  We have a nice mixture of panelists, and will all be at high energy!  I may even wear my hand-painted alchemist’s lab coat!

Saturday, I’m on the increasingly popular Snackwrites panel, created by Josh Gentry.  Josh provides the prompts and everyone—audience included—is invited to write something in five minutes.  Even better, only the panelists are required to share what they wrote, so the rest can participate in safety.

I’ll also be there for Saturday’s Mass Signing.  I may go home before the costume contest, which I usually stay to watch, because the kittens will need feeding.  They won’t let us lock them up anymore.  Since we have five cats on three different diets, leaving kibble out is not really an option!

Sunday, once again I start the convention day, this time with my “55 Minutes With” presentation at 10:00 a.m.  I’m planning to do a reading—probably from an unpublished work–but I’ll also leave time for questions. 

Sunday at 1:30, I’ll be on “Change With the Times: From Short Stories to Novels.”  Moderator Jon Black has reached out to the panelists.  Based on the replies, I think we’re going to have a very interesting panel.

If you’d like to see Bubonicon’s complete schedule, which covers five tracks of programming and will give you a sense of who is presenting, you can find it from a link on the homepage.  A small side note: Bubonicon has an amazing pool of local and regional authors attending, some of whom will only be there for one day, so you should take a look in advance so you can take full advantage of what’s on offer.

Hope to see you there!