Planes, trains, automobiles, griffon chariots, horses, teleporters, dragons, and trolleys . . . how your characters move from one chapter to the next should be interesting and reasonably accurate. We'll give you tips for writing about modes of transportation so that they add spice to your fiction rather than bog it down.
Your panelists have dealt with big publishers, small press publishers, packagers, editors, and agents. They have wisdom to impart on deadlines, galleys, self-publishing, and more. They understand how advances, royalties, and reserves for returns work. They've written query letters, attended pitch sessions, schmoozed at con parties, and written work-for-hire. They've authored, edited, and critiqued. Best yet, they're willing to dish about it.
USA Today Bestselling author, and Author Guest of Honor, Elizabeth Vaughan is in the mood to chat. Bring your questions and books to sign, and she'll happily accommodate you. Published internationally, Elizabeth is known for her Warlands fantasy romance trilogy from Tor and her new series including Dagger Star, White Star, and Destiny's Star.
Discover your inner superhero and learn the basics of teaming up for success in role play adventures. This seminar will teach networking strategies that help you find new potential players for campaigns and reach out to other gamers. The networking skills will generalize to the real world, as well - but who wants to think about the real world at Gen Con?!
Learn the basics of the who’s, where’s, when’s, and why’s of the history of the Lebanese Civil War. Learn how it all started, progressed, escalated to the point of provoking international intervention, and still continued on for years to come.
Acupuncture - An Implausible Premise Lacking Evidence
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Learn about the origins, the methods, and the tools used by acupuncturists, and explore the connections between eastern medicine and humourism, an abandoned Greco-Roman form of ancient medicine. Examine the scientific evidence proving that acupuncture is nothing more than an elaborate placebo with absolutely no plausible basis in reality. Finally, get an up close look at some of the paraphernalia used by a former acupuncture student.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Time Travel, Parallel Universes, & Quantum Physics
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In a parallel universe somewhere, you've already attended this session and know all about how wav theory, super-strings, quantum entanglement, and things like noetics bear on frequent sci-fi concepts like time travel and mirror Earths. But since you're not in that universe, you might want to attend this panel and get some insight into actual physics ... or just enough gobbledy-gook to make your next story sound credible.
What elements make a good short story? Do you have to like kids to write Young Adult fiction? Who would win a fight between Unicorns and Werewolves? And just how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Join Kelly Swails as she attempts to answer these questions, as well as those from the audience.