{"id":5842,"date":"2011-08-16T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T05:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2011-08-16T23:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T05:55:05","slug":"worldcon-in-t-minus-10-9-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/worldcon-in-t-minus-10-9-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldcon in T-minus 10, 9, 8&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5843\" title=\"renovation_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/renovation_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/renovation_logo.gif 165w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/renovation_logo-128x140.gif 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/>So I just finished packing for Worldcon, including 4 apples, 1 lb ginger snaps, and enough PBJ material to last the weekend (because fast food is disgusting and expensive).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be leaving tomorrow at 6:30 am with Cavan to pick up Logan in Orem, then meet up with Eric in Eagle Mountain and head out for Reno, hopefully before 7:30.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my first time at Worldcon, and I&#8217;m pretty stoked!\u00a0 It looks pretty freaking huge&#8211;Charlie sent me the PDF of the pocket program, and it had maybe twenty times the number of rooms for panels, workshops&#8230;man, it&#8217;s going to be hard not to get lost.\u00a0 Also, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll be giving away free books like at World Fantasy, though I&#8217;ll keep an eye out for whatever I can find!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any specific goals, but here is what I would like to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet up with the other Utah writers (there are a lot of us!).<\/li>\n<li>Network with other indie writers and book bloggers.<\/li>\n<li>Gather as much info on ebooks and the publishing industry as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Discover up-and-coming short fiction markets and what they&#8217;re looking for.<\/li>\n<li>Gauge the general zeitgeist of the science fiction &amp; fantasy community.<\/li>\n<li>Throw something at Brandon.<\/li>\n<li>Have fun!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s just about it.\u00a0 See you in Reno!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just finished packing for Worldcon, including 4 apples, 1 lb ginger snaps, and enough PBJ material to last the weekend (because fast food is disgusting and expensive).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be leaving tomorrow at 6:30 am with Cavan to pick up Logan in Orem, then meet up with Eric in Eagle Mountain and head out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/worldcon-in-t-minus-10-9-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worldcon in T-minus 10, 9, 8&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,82,221,122,81,562],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlie","tag-conventions","tag-eric-james-stone","tag-friends","tag-networking","tag-worldcon-2011","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1we","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5852,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions\/5852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}