Get your peepers on this little lot and tell me you don't want to come on down and hang out. This is going to be one fabbo day:
The 2012 KSP Speculative
Fiction Writers Group Minicon
Panellists
include :
Local Writers: Lee Battersby, Amelia Beamer, Hal Colebatch, Cathy
Cupitt, Stephen Dedman, Joanna Fay, Satima Flavell, Sonia Helbig, Elaine Kemp,
Pete Kempshall, David Kitson, Martin Livings, Dave Luckett, Juliet Marillier, Ian
Nichols, Anthony Panegyres, Carol Ryles, Guy Salvidge, JB Thomas.
When: Sunday, 9 September, 2012
9.30am-4.30pm
Where: Katherine's Place, 11 Old York Road, Greenmount (Turn into the first driveway after you turn in from the highway and park at the back)
Cost: $15, or $10 if you book in advance. Leave a comment at http://kspminicon.blogspot.com.au/ if you want to do this.
Lunch: A decent meal and tea and coffee will be available for a gold coin donation or you can BYO - there are no eateries in the vicinity.
Where: Katherine's Place, 11 Old York Road, Greenmount (Turn into the first driveway after you turn in from the highway and park at the back)
Cost: $15, or $10 if you book in advance. Leave a comment at http://kspminicon.blogspot.com.au/ if you want to do this.
Lunch: A decent meal and tea and coffee will be available for a gold coin donation or you can BYO - there are no eateries in the vicinity.
Programme
Discussion
Panels: Meeting Room
10:00 Breaking the Rules
“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before
you break 'em.” - Terry Pratchett
Sometimes the 'rules of writing' need to be broken. But what are they
and how and when do you get away with breaking them? And what do you need to be
aware of before you do? All the best writers are renowned for breaking rules
and new writers are crucified for it, yet there are times when we all need to
cross that line.
Lee Battersby
Sonia Helbig
Martin Livings
Anthony Panegyres
Guy Salvidge
1100: Is the Internet the New Slush Pile
Google the question: “is the
internet the new slush pile?” and the wisdom of the masses will tell you that
since mid 2011, there has been a grass-roots change in the world of publishing.
The inference given in hundreds of articles unearthed by such a search is that you
should no longer submit to slush piles while trying to get noticed. There's a
new wave of authors who publish their material directly to the Internet in the
hope that their book will attract the attention of publishers and agents. But
what does this method of gaining attention achieve and will it replace the
tradition of slush pile Mondays? For that matter, with so many new writers
self-publishing, is there a need to be picked up at all? Or is it a path to
self-destruction of the writer's rights?
Stephen Dedman
David Kitson
Dave Luckett
Ian Nichols
12:00 Lunch
Book Launch, The Corpse Rat King by award winning author Lee Battersby
(Angry Robot Books)
Lee Battersby is the author of the novels The Corpse-Rat King (Angry
Robot, 2012) and Marching Dead (Angry Robot, 2013) as well as over 70 stories
in Australia, the US and Europe, with appearances in markets as Year’s Best
Fantasy & Horror, Year’s Best Australian SF & F, and Writers of the
Future. A collection of his work, entitled Through Soft Air has been published
by Prime Books. He’s taught at Clarion South and developed and delivered a
six-week Writing the SF Short Story course for the Australian Writers
Marketplace. His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice
and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the
Aurealis, Australian Shadows and Australia SF ‘Ditmar’ gongs.
He lives in Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby and
an increasingly weird mob of kids. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham
Forest football club, dinosaurs, the Goon Show and Daleks. He’s been a stand-up
comic, tennis coach, cartoonist, poet, and tax officer in previous times, and
he currently works as the Arts Co-ordinator for a local council, where he gets
to play with artists all day. All in all, life is pretty good.
For more about Lee see: http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/2012/06/2012-aussie-snapshot-lee-battersby/
1:00 Critting and Crowd-Sourced Editing
Should writers have their manuscripts criticised by a broad audience of
their fellow writers? What value does it add to your work? Can you lose your
ideas by letting others see your manuscript before the editor does? How about
crowd-sourcing of editing? Is it possible to let others perform the work for
you while reading early revisions of your manuscript? And how do you even take
advantage of such services? Should they be avoided completely?
Amelia Beamer
Satima Flavell
Pete Kempshall
Juliet Marillier
Anthony Panegyres
2:00 Building Characters without Cardboard
In online reviews, a common complaint against many recent authors, especially
those who choose to self-publish, is that their characters seem two-dimensional
or otherwise lack depth. So what does the aspiring author need to consider in
their writing so that their characters seem more real to the reader? And how do
they achieve it? Are characters planned or imagined? And what are the pitfalls
that many new writer, and even experienced ones, fall into? And how do you
write convincing characters from the other gender?
Lee Battersby
Martin Livings
Juliet Marillier
Carol Ryles
JB Thomas
With Fifty Shades of Grey now the fastest selling book ever, it's
difficult to ignore the part that erotica has played in this series’ success. Writers
thinking of including sexually explicit content in their novels are often
confused by the terms ‘erotica’ and ‘pornography’. How should a modern writer
approach this situation? How to avoid mistakes? Should erotica feature in a
serious novel at all?
Amelia Beamer
Cathy Cupitt
Stephen Dedman
Elaine Kemp
Kaffeeklatsch
Schedule (Library)
1PM – 1:30PM Joanna Fay: Publishing with a small press overseas
Joanna’s Daughter of Hope, the first novel in her epic fantasy sequence
The Siaris Quartet, has recently been published as an e-book by Musa
Publishing, a relatively new e-press in the USA. From the comfort of her lounge
room in the Perth hills, Joanna has taken an intensive 'high learning curve'
this year on the road to publication, while coming to grips with both the
potential and pitfalls of online promotion.
2PM - 2:30PM David Kitson: Self Publishing – A complete end to end guide
for anyone planning on doing it themselves
David’s self-published novel, Turing Evolved, broke into the top 20
Science Fiction book list on Amazon.com and is now rated at four-and-a-half
stars with one hundred and fifty customer reviews. Learn about David’s
experiences with editing, uploading, customer feedback and eventual contact and
representation by a literary agent.
3PM – 3:30PM Juliet Marillier: Theme to be announced
Juliet is a New Zealand-born writer who now lives in WA. Her historical
fantasy novels for adult and young adult readers include the popular
Sevenwaters series and the Bridei Chronicles. Juliet’s books have won many
awards including the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Prix
Imaginales and the Aurealis Award. Her lifelong love of folklore, fairy tales
and mythology is a major influence on her writing. Juliet has two books out
this year: Shadowfell, first instalment in a fantasy series for young adults
(available now) and adult fantasy Flame of Sevenwaters, to be published in
November.
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