My Capclave 2014 schedule
Diana Peterfreund, HOW ARE YOU ALWAYS SO FABULOUS?
Y’all one of my favorite conventions is upon us: CAPCLAVE!
I had SUCH a good time last year and met so many awesome new folks – many of whom were fellow writers & I bought their books and totally love them, AND YOU SHOULD TOO (like Jon Skovron & Diana Peterfreund), and other fabulous people like new readers & friends, Natalie, Diego, & Kelly. <3 And probably a bunch of other new awesome people I’ve forgotten to mention. Consider yourselves loved and mentioned! Can’t wait to see y’all again. 
I’ve just received my schedule, so hopefully, if you’ll be in the Washington DC/Baltimore area I can see you at one (or more!) of my panels. <3
| Friday 9:00 pm: Meet the YA authors (Ends at: 9:55 pm) Panelists: Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Annette Klause, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Diana Peterfreund, Jon Skovron, Janine Spendlove, Michael A. Ventrella Last year’s meet and greet YA authors in a casual setting was such an awesome party that we decided to do it again this year! |
| Saturday 12:00 pm: Area 52 Military Science Fiction – Getting it Right (Part 1) (Ends at: 1:55 pm) Panelists: Ron Garner (M), Janine Spendlove (M) Two Marines teach you how to write realistic military scenes. The purpose of this workshop is to provide attendees a brief introduction to military thought at the strategic, operational, and tactical level, an understanding of the types of weapons that are used in combat and how they are employed, and a feeling for the effects of combat on participants and non-participants. From this basis, we will engage attendees in a discussion designed to relate basic military theory, tactics, and weapons to speculative fiction and thus help attendees develop a more accurate depiction of warfare in their writing.The Saturday session will cover the difference between Strategy/Operations/Tactics, including basic theories of military strategy (i.e. why/how states go to war), as well as planning factors and a discussion of these issues as they relate to speculative fiction. The Saturday session will also cover Tactics/Weapons including: (a) standard small unit tactics; (b) types of weapons systems (individual, crew-served, indirect fire, WMD); (c) the effects of warfare on combatants/non-combatants; and (d) discussion of these topics as they relate to speculative fiction. The Sunday session will be a writing sample review and Q&A;in which each attendee prepares a military writing sample ahead of time, and we take volunteers to discuss a couple of them, reserving about 10-15 minutes at the end for Q&A;. Limited to 15 participants |
| Saturday 2:00 pm: Smart Women Foolish Television (Ends at: 2:55 pm) Panelists: Barbara Krasnoff, Sherin Nicole (M), Janine Spendlove, Genevieve Valentine, Jean Marie Ward, Fran Wilde We all have those shows we watch and love and maybe love to pick on because they are our guilty pleasures. We revel in their cliches and inconsistent writing and leaps of logic. Or in their bizarre yet internally consistent alternate realities (even if they’re supposed to be based in the real world). Ahistorical historical shows and why we love their anachronisms. |
| Saturday 3:00 pm: Author Table Spendlove (Ends at: 3:55 pm) Panelists: Janine Spendlove |
| Saturday 7:30 pm: Mass Signing (Ends at: 8:25 pm) Panelists: 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. |
| Saturday 8:30 pm: Awards Reception and Presentation (Ends at: 9:55 pm) Panelists: 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 WSFA Small Press Award winner will be announced. The Guest of Honor Gifts will also be presented. |
| Sunday 10:00 am: Area 52 Military Science Fiction – Getting it Right (Part 2) (Ends at: 11:55 am) Panelists: Ron Garner (M), Janine Spendlove (M) Two Marines teach you how to write realistic military scenes. The purpose of this workshop is to provide attendees a brief introduction to military thought at the strategic, operational, and tactical level, an understanding of the types of weapons that are used in combat and how they are employed, and a feeling for the effects of combat on participants and non-participants. From this basis, we will engage attendees in a discussion designed to relate basic military theory, tactics, and weapons to speculative fiction and thus help attendees develop a more accurate depiction of warfare in their writing.The Saturday session will cover the difference between Strategy/Operations/Tactics, including basic theories of military strategy (i.e. why/how states go to war), as well as planning factors and a discussion of these issues as they relate to speculative fiction. The Saturday session will also cover Tactics/Weapons including: (a) standard small unit tactics; (b) types of weapons systems (individual, crew-served, indirect fire, WMD); (c) the effects of warfare on combatants/non-combatants; and (d) discussion of these topics as they relate to speculative fiction. The Sunday session will be a writing sample review and Q&A;in which each attendee prepares a military writing sample ahead of time, and we take volunteers to discuss a couple of them, reserving about 10-15 minutes at the end for Q&A;. Limited to 15 participants |
| Sunday 12:00 pm: Reading (Spendlove) (Ends at: 12:25 pm) Panelists: Janine Spendlove |
| Sunday 3:00 pm: When Did Fangirl Become a Dirty Word? (Ends at: 3:55 pm) 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? |
| Sunday 4:00 pm: The Darker Side of Fae (Ends at: 4:55 pm) Panelists: Holly Black, Pamela K. Kinney, Shira Lipkin, Janine Spendlove, Jean Marie Ward Not everyone can be Tinkerbell (who wasn’t all sweetness and light), sometimes the world is a little less clean and pure. Both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts are best avoided if at all possible.
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And that’s my schedule for now. I’ll update as things change or get added.
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