So, I told the LTUE (BYU's SF con) that I was willing to be on a couple of panels this year. I just got the email, and they put me on EIGHT. If you don't know what that means, it means I'll be up there talking for eight hours.
Man. How desperate must they be for panelists if they're that keen on using the guy whose book won't even come out for over a year?
Another note of interest--I'm on a panel with Scott Parkin. He's the guy whose job I kind of filched at BYU, teaching the creative writing class. (I was a grad student, he was not. I had a book deal, he did not. I applied for the job he'd been teaching, and they hired me instead.)
I don't even know if Scott was interested in teaching the class again (he'd done it for two years, I think.) However, I hope he's not sore. I heard rumblings that they didn't like having someone without an advanced degree teaching classes, and so I stepped in and applied to teach the class for fear that they would just cancel it.