Wiscon Schedule

[cathschaffstump]

There are many of you coming to Wiscon, I know, and I’d like to meet those of you who are coming. Let me tell you about my schedule first, so you can sneak in and see me do either of my things, if you’re interested.

Title: Journeys of Self-Discovery
Saturday, 4:00-5:15 P.M.
Conference2

Las Habladoras, my reading group, will be presenting a multi-media presentation. Cat Horsfield has drawn art for each of our stories. Julie Rose has put together a soundtrack for each reading, and four of us: Yolanda Joosten, Jenn Racek, Julie Rose, and myself, will be reading. Yo is reading about alien lawyers and love, Jenn is reading about faerie lands, Julie has a haunting piece set in Norway, and I am reading part of my rural fantasy YA.

But the most important reason to come is the free-trade dark chocolate!

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The other programming I’m involved in is academic, if literature interests you.

Title: Tradition & Liberation in the Fantastic
Monday, 10:00-11:15 A.M.
Conference 3

I’ll be sharing the spotlight with another presenter. I’ll be sharing the paper Azazello’s Cream, discussing a more feminist friendly reading of Margarita from Master and Margarita. I’m sure that’s not what the author intended, but it’ll be an interesting what-if for readers.

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Other than that, I’m going to hang out with my good author buddies, and my friends Dan and Lisa. I’m going to see my sublime publisher Sonya M. Sipes of Cats Curious. I know Tiffany Trent will be there, and I’m excited to meet her, especially since I am now a full-fledged fan of her work. I’ll be seeing my fellow Broads, especially Phoebe Wray, whose book I have to buy.

What about you? Are you coming? Can I see you ? Do youwant to see me? Just say so, and we’ll work something out.

I love Wiscon. Rainbows and kitties, after spring rain smell kind of love.

Did I mention there’s karaoke too? Just wow.

Catherine

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[tltrent.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to meeting you! :)

[cathschaffstump.livejournal.com]

Likewise!

Catherine

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

*sigh* it sounds massively fun. And, unfortunately, totally out of my range at the moment.

I hope I can do this someday.

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

Enjoy!

[kurtoons.livejournal.com]

I hope we'll be able to make Madison for Memorial Day this year. Money has been very tight. Last weekend we went to a new con in Oconomowoc because I was invited as a guest and I was an obstinate brat about it. Lute was not happy about it. She was alternately stressed and bored, the latter because she had nothing to do and wanted to be writing, the former because even though we didn't have to pay to get in and didn't have to pay for a hotel room (it was a one-day event), the gas for the trip cost more than we really could afford.

Well, Memorial Day will be different. For one thing, Lute has friends in Madison that she'd like to see, so it won't be All About Me. And maybe by then we'll have our Tax Jellybean from Dubya.

[cathschaffstump.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you do come.

A good spouse lets it be all about the spouse sometimes, especially if you're doing a guest stint. Someone needs a spanking.

Catherine

[kurtoons.livejournal.com]

Well, in her defense we had spent most of the previous day sitting at a table at a craft fair where we hoped to make enough money to cover our gas to Oconomowoc.

We didn't.

So she was looking at spending *another* day trapped behind a table sitting in an uncomfortable folding chair when she could be doing something productive with the added possibility that we might find ourselves stuck in Oconomowoc without any gas; or the perhaps more realistic possibility, that we might get back home only to find that we'd spent all our money on gas and now had nothing for food until my next paycheck.

Well, as it turned out we needed less gas than I had budgeted, and we've managed to nurse the dregs of our checking account to the next payday.

But playing Chicken with our finances is not fun.