{"id":13916,"date":"2012-06-01T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13916"},"modified":"2012-05-29T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T08:49:14","slug":"event-horizon-im-at-natcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/event-horizon-im-at-natcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Horizon &#8212; I&#8217;m At Natcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes that&#8217;s right,\u00a0 I&#8217;m in Auckland for <strong>UnConventional<\/strong>, the National Science Fiction Fantasy Convention, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trudicanavan.com\/\">Trudi Canavan<\/a> as international Guest of Honour.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my programme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Women in Fantasy and SF<\/strong>:\u00a0Saturday 2nd,\u00a0 3pm &#8212;\u00a0 <em>Damsels, love interests, butt-kickers. Just what is the place of women in the genre and how has it changed?<\/em> Panelists: Trudi Canavan, Lyn McConchie, Helen Lowe, Mary Victoria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Worldbuilding:<\/strong> Saturday 2nd, 5pm &#8212; <em>The thing that differentiates SF &amp; F from the rest of fiction writing is the extent to which worldbuilding becomes integral to the writing process. The panel of authors discuss how they go about it.<\/em> Panelists: Helen Lowe, Russell Kirkpatrick, Trudi Canavan, Simon Petrie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Promoting your Book:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sunday 3rd,\u00a0 11am &#8212; <em>How do you make your stuff sell? Writers and editors discuss what they do to get the word out there.<\/em> Panelists: Trudi Canavan, Helen Lowe, Stephen Minchin, Grace Bridges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Sunday 3rd, 4 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be blogging in a few daily reports on my personal highlights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes that&#8217;s right,\u00a0 I&#8217;m in Auckland for UnConventional, the National Science Fiction Fantasy Convention, with Trudi Canavan as international Guest of Honour. Here&#8217;s my programme: Women in Fantasy and SF:\u00a0Saturday 2nd,\u00a0 3pm &#8212;\u00a0 Damsels, love interests, butt-kickers. Just what is the place of women in the genre and how has it changed? Panelists: Trudi Canavan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13923,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}