ROB'S DRAGON CON SCHEDULE:

Title: Business Planning for Authors

Description: Making decisions about your author career isn't always easy. Our panelists will share how they run their author businesses, how they created their business plans, and how they continue to make successful and profitable decisions in an ever-changing publishing environment.

Panelists: Rachel A. Brune(M), Bob McGough, Marc Alan Edelheit, Robert J. Sawyer, Jennifer Blackstream, Violette L Meier

Time: Fri 11:30 am

Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: 15 Minute Mentor Session 2

Description: A chance for budding authors to talk one-on-one with a successful industry professional about business, promotion, the writing process, & career advice. Sign up in the Writer's Track. (Embassy E/F)

Panelists: Sean H Taylor, Robert J. Sawyer, J.D. Blackrose, Jess L. M. Anderson

Time: Fri 02:30 pm

Location: Embassy G Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: Writing for Stage or Screen

Description: How is writing a screenplay or stage play different from writing a novel or other type of prose? How is a prose story adapted for screen: movies, TV, streaming? Or for the stage? We'll be talking about these topics, as well as the challenges and benefits inherent in scriptwriting.

Panelists: Robert J. Sawyer(M), Nancy Knight, Joe Compton, Tamsin L. Silver, Leanna Renee Hieber

Time: Fri 05:30 pm

Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: Art and Reality: Finding a way Forward with Problematic Authors

Description: They say never meet your heroes, and in the age social media that may never have been more true. But how do we, as fans, adjust to the reality that the art we love does not match its creator? This can go double for authors from years ago, after all society changes and but the dead don't.

Panelists: James P. Nettles(M), Arley Sorg, Robert J. Sawyer, KD Edwards, Darrell Z. Grizzle, Davis Ashura

Time: Sat 10:00 am

Location: Embassy CD Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: Writers of the Future: Practical skills & insider knowledge for genre fiction

Description: Bestselling authors discuss crafting believable worlds, plot and structure, and character development specifically as it applies to short fiction.

Panelists: Jody Lynn Nye, Robert J. Sawyer, S. M. Stirling, John Goodwin(M), T.R. Naus, Kevin J. Anderson, Randyn Bartholomew, Lauren Catherine McGuire

Time: Sat 01:00 pm

Location: International North Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: Autographing!

Description: Bring your books or buy them here! Rob will be signing at The Missing Volume booth.

Time: Sat 04:00 pm

Location: The Missing Volume, Booth 1300 on the first floor of Americas Mart Building 2. (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: Reading: Robert J. Sawyer

Description: First-ever public reading from Rob's new novel Ghosts in the Machine

Time: Sun 11:30 am

Location: Learning Center Hyatt [Lower Level 1, Atrium Tower] (Length: 1 Hour)

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Title: Mastering Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey Stuff

Description: In this panel, we'll be talking about the big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff related to writing stories. We'll discuss time, both in tracking your story's timeline, but also playing with time, such as in time travel stories or telling your tales in a non-linear way.

Panelists: Tony Sarrecchia(M), J.D. Blackrose, Robert J. Sawyer, Andrew E.C. Gaska, T. Kingfisher, S. M. Stirling

Time: Sun 05:30 pm

Location: Embassy EF Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

More Good Reading

Booking Robert J. Sawyer as a speaker
Rob's stints as guest of honor
Rob's keynote addresses
Quotes from event organizers

Why authors attend science-fiction conventions
Rob's article from The Ottawa Citizen on science-fiction conventions
Science fiction convention panel suggestions

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