Worldcon participants

[House of Mustard]

On your Worldcon schedule: schedule is spelled wrong (scedule).

[stacer]

New panel:  Monday at 1:00, teaching SF/F on a University level.  Featuring Dr. Taylor, Dr. Perry, and good ol' me.

1. Who are Dr. Taylor and Dr. Perry? BYU profs?

2. This should be very interesting.

[Spriggan]

Actualy EUOL the con's site lists it as "Teaching/Advising SF/F/H at Religious Institutions" not the college level.

[EUOL]

Oh yeah?  Well, that's interesting.

[Brenna]

Yes, Dr. Taylor and Dr. Perry are BYU professors.  Sally Taylor was TLE's advisor (but she's now officially retired), and Dennis Perry is our new advisor.  They are both pretty cool.

You may find this interesting, Stacer--Chris and I had our wedding reception at Dr. Taylor's home!

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Okay Brandon, just want to run things down/finalize...

Hotel: Sheraton

Since your flight gets in about an hour before mine, how about you just take the shuttle ($10) to the hotel and check in? Unless you really want to wait for me (I'm coming through Cincinnati at 9:37, Delta) at the airport.
(Eric, when are you arriving?)

When you check in you should be able to reserve keys for Eric and me to pick up separately, no?

um...is there anything else to go over? If for some reason we don't meet up quickly, we can definitely meet at your 1:00 panel.

We've got each other's phone numbers.

[EUOL]

I'll do just that, Ookla.  However, did we decide SE is staying with us?  Brenna, where are you and Chris staying?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Yeah, I officially butted out a while ago for funding problems -- so unless you plan on housing me.... My plane gets into Manchester, NH around 9, where my brother will pick me up. we plan on being at the con by 11:30 or so. I'll have Brandon's cell #. So I'll call you guys when we're there. You hopefully will be settled by then.

[Brenna]

ummm...I thought we were staying at the Sheraton with you guys...I *really* hope that's what we're doing, since I won't have internet access after about five minutes.

We are staying with Stacer tonight, as we are about to leave to head out to Boston today, and we're supposed to be in the hotel with you guys as of tomorrow.

See you all there!  
If you need to get ahold of me, Brandon, Stacy has my cell phone number.

[stacer]

I was thinking that if everyone was there by noonish, we should eat lunch together (if timing works). If not, meeting up at Brandon's 1:00 seminar sounds good, too. Everyone have my cell phone still? Let me know if you need it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I does not. I didn't write it down.

but lunch sounds yummy.

[stacer]

It's 857-225-2579. And my home number, in case anyone needs to get me there (sometimes my cell battery does strange things unexpectedly during the day, though I think I've figured out what it is)--is 617-277-5693.

[EUOL]

Stacer, please assure Brenna that she has a place in our hotel room.  That's what I've been planning ever since SE ran into his mega-funding-problems.

[House of Mustard]

So EUOL:  you might have mentioned this elsewhere, but is your publisher paying your way to the convention as marketing expenses?  And do you get anything from sitting on the panels?  Or is this all self-promotion tax-write-off stuff?

[EUOL]

Self-promotion tax-write-off stuff.

BYU is giving me some money (because I'm presenting.)  If the convention makes a profit, that profit will be distributed amongst the people who sit on panels, but only the actual guests of honor will be let in for free.

Cons are generally seen as self-promotion deals.  Tor doesn't have the budget to do much marketing for authors--primarily because marketing just doesn't do a whole lot in this business.  Book signings are nice, but there's no focused local for them to be really effective.  Flying me into a city to do a couple book signings when nobody has even heard of me would be kind of a waste of their money.