Swancon is coming (redux)!

[martinlivings]

Oh my God, can you believe that Swancon is coming in less than three weeks?

EDIT - wow, I got the dates wrong in the original post... I blame sleep deprivation...

After missing it entirely last year, which is only maybe the second or third time since my first visit in 1990, this year I plan to just go for two full days, the Friday and the Sunday, both times because I'm on panels. I also plan to turn up late Thursday night, but that's just for the panel I'm on then, nothing else.

The panels I'm officially on are:

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Thursday 5-4
10:30pm
Seven Days: Investigating The Ring
Panellists: Grant Watson, Damian Magee, Martin Livings
Oh, this should be fun... angriest has done ridiculous amounts of preparation, and I... uh, well, I watched the movies. Well, some of them. :)


Friday 6-4
11:00am
Launchify!
A series of launches, at which I'm going to do a really low-key relaunch of Carnies, and also help punkrocker1991 with launching Fantastic Wonder Stories. Oh, and it looks like Brimstone Press are doing a launch of their Year's Best, which I'm also in, so I guess I can help out with that too!

Sunday 8-4
3:00pm
Different Types of Horror - A Guide for the Uninformed
Panellists: Damian Magee, Stephen Dedman, Martin Livings
Again, no idea what we're talking about here!

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And that's my Swancon plan for '07. One of these years I might even build up the strength to go to an entire one again, instead of wimping out like I generally do these days.

I have a vague little notion to do something special for the relaunch of Carnies, but I don't know if I'm going to have the time needed to prepare it. I might have to put aside my zombie story "Sleepwalkers" this week and knuckle down to it for the next three weeks. Let's just say that I have thirteen copies of Carnies I want to sell off, and I'd like to give away something extra with each one. Perhaps, say, an additional chapter. 'Nuff said. :) But please don't crucify me if I don't get it done in time, I'm only human!