Writing Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre Saoirse Moen
b'How does a convention play into your career as an author? How might you expect to be participating in programming? How, in short, do you get to be on panels?
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\\nDeirdre Saoirse Moen, who organizes\\xa0fan-run literary cons and schedules\\xa0programs\\xa0for them,\\xa0joins us to talk about\\xa0programming\\xa0from the convention\'s point of view. Conventions want to create engaging programs, and want authors to be able to participate in that. Authors, of course, want to do things that ultimately result in selling more books. These goals are not incompatible, but there\'s a trick to getting them to mesh well.
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\\nWe also talk about what you should do when you find yourself on a panel -- things to expect, things you can do to prepare, and some things to take care to not do.
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