WESTERCON Hoooooooooo!

I will be a speaker/panelist at WESTERCON 70, also known as the Western United States Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, to be held in Tempe, Arizona (a suburb of Phoenix, for those of you unfamiliar with this part of the world) July 1-4, 2017.  The convention will be held at the Tempe Mission Palms, 60 E. 5th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281.  It’s a rather swanky joint, I understand.

Here is my tentative event schedule for the convention, in case any folks want to know where they can see/hear/laugh at me.

Note that Room numbers/locations have not been announced.  But, this stuff is easy to find at these affairs:  there are usually only a few panels going on at a time, and generally in adjacent rooms, all with plain signage.

Saturday, July 1

12:30 PM  Military Sci Fi:  Getting the details right.

2:00 PM    What Made the Golden Age Golden?

3:30 PM     The Return of the Space Opera

(I’m gonna be busy Saturday afternoon!)

Sunday, July 2

11:00 AM    I will be signing autographs. (Bring your own books or buy at convention).

3:30 PM      Reading–Probably the Prologue to To Honor You Call Us.

Monday, July 3

2:00 PM      Beyond Gold and Silver:  The Dawn of a New Age in Sci Fi

3:30 PM      I will be signing more autographs!?!

Tuesday, July 4

11:00 AM    Fantasy and Sci Fi World Building

12:30  PM    Signing still more autographs?!?!?!?!

I am pleased and surprised that I’m scheduled for a reading.  I’m generally regarded as too small a fish to merit that level of prominence.  Also, the three autographs sessions puzzle me.  I think I signed a total of 10 or 12 autographs at the last convention, but maybe there is a greater demand now.  I hope.

There will also be a meet the Authors/Guests event of some sort, but the time is not announced on any of the materials I have.  Watch the Con’s web site for that information which I’m sure they will post at some point.  Or, you can just email the organizers.  Here’s the home page for the con–branch out from there for any information you need.

http://westercon70.org/

I hope to see as many of you as possible there.  I’d love to meet my fans.

 

 

 

 

Meet Me in San Diego!!

By invitation of the convention organizers, I will be attending and “participating in programming” at the West Coast Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention to be held at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, California, July 2-5, 2015.  The organizers are still developing the convention programming and figuring out which participant goes in what slot, so I can’t yet give you a schedule of events in which I will be involved.

When the organizers provide me with such a schedule, assuming I get it far enough in advance, I will post it here.  Otherwise, you might need to check the convention’s web site:

http://westercon68.org.

To many writers, convention invitations are no big deal, but this is my first and it is a HUGE deal for me.  It doesn’t hurt that my third book will have been released on June 30, so I will have a brand new, fresh book to promote.  In fact, I’ve never been to any Science Fiction convention, ever.  So, this is going to be a totally new experience for me.

I’m looking forward to it.  I would love to meet as many of my readers as I can when I am there, so please try to attend if possible.

UPDATE:  A partial list of participants is up on the web site and I note that one of them is David Brin, whose writing I really admire.  I also note that my name is NOT yet on the partial list, which is causing a 10,000 cubic meter per hour hydrogen leak from my Hindenburg-like ego.  Those of you who live in the southwestern United States can probably hear the faint hissing even as you read this.  If you want to see who, besides me, is going to be participating, here is a direct link to the page which, perhaps, at some point between now and the opening of the convention, may contain my name:

http://westercon68.org/programming/program-participants/

UPDATE #2:  As of 07:30 Zulu Hours, 30 May 2015, the Westercon68 website appears to be down.  So, if you get a “page not found” error, it’s not my fault.  Really. I can prove it.  Don’t blame me!!!!

UPDATE #3:  As of 18:34 Zulu Hours 30 May 2015, the site is back up. It is still gravely deficient however, in that the participant list still does not include the brilliant and scintillating H. Paul Honsinger.  Don’t these people know that this is a name that will spur the enthusiasm of hordes of wildly cheering fans (a “horde” in this case consisting of at least two fans and, perhaps, as many as five!)?  I suppose not.  They will learn, my friends.  [Evil chuckle.]

UPDATE #4:  As of 17:13 Zulu Hours, 1 June 2015, my name is now listed among the program participants for this Conference (technically it’s a “Conference” and not a “Convention”).  Because they spelled my last name right on the first attempt, I’m not even slightly perturbed by the listing omitting the “H.” in “H. Paul Honsinger.”  I’ve always been “Paul” to my friends and most other folks, so I can get by without the “H.” that I use for formal purposes.