My notes from the 11am Saturday panel 4/16/2022 Dames, Damsels, & Dynamite The young ladies of young adult literature are seldom well-behaved. What empowers these budding women? What are the secrets to their success? It’s more than just dynamite or lacing up combat boots. This panel will help tell us what makes these women explode […]
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At Noon on Friday was the panel “The Legal Ramifications of Monster Hunting” This was a fun one. The panelists were all lawyers, iirc. From the program guide: Paranormal stories, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Wynonna Earp, often feature slayers and hunters of vampires, demons, and other supernatural monsters. But if that sort of thing
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The first panel Friday morning, at 10, was “Representation vs. Cultural Appropriation: Where’s the Line?” From the program description: Whether you are a career writer or a complete newbie, writing diverse characters can quickly cross into cultural appropriation. Can new writers learn where that line is and learn how to avoid crossing it before they
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Last weekend, I was at Norwescon 44. I wasn’t on any panels and didn’t work in the dealers room this time, so I had lots of time to be in panel audiences. I took lots of notes. So, here they are. Success on Another Planet – 3pm From the description:News flash: The universe is not
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Last weekend at Norwescon, I picked up a book in the dealers room: Enter the Apocalypse, an anthology of apocalypse stories (as opposed to one of my favorite genres, the post-apocalypse story, which the same publisher also has an anthology of.) Anyway, since it’s a collection of short stories by different authors, rather than review
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