Boskone Schedule
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jpskewedthroneHere's my schedule for the upcoming Boskone con. Who else is going? And help me out with the Character Assassination panel: let me know what books you've read where the author killed off a major character memorably.
Saturday 11am Character Assassination for Fun and Profit
James D. Macdonald
Joshua B. Palmatier
Allen Steele (M)
Charles Stross
The death of a major character often proves upsetting for involved
readers. How does it feel to the writer? What genre works have
killed off their own most memorably? Does it always help the story?
Which writers have a special gift for this dark art?
Saturday 12noon Mining Your Obsessions
Beth Bernobich
Patricia Bray
Gregory Frost
Joshua B. Palmatier
Tamora Pierce (M)
"Write what you know," they say. If you're writing about a poet who
lives on a space station, how does it help that you're nuts about
cycling, cryptology, forensics, mathematics, or blade weapons? Our
panelists will explore this and other questions related to finding
unlikely connections between what you're writing and what you care
about.
Saturday 5pm Kaffeeklatsch
Sunday 10am Reading (0.5 hrs)
Saturday 11am Character Assassination for Fun and Profit
James D. Macdonald
Joshua B. Palmatier
Allen Steele (M)
Charles Stross
The death of a major character often proves upsetting for involved
readers. How does it feel to the writer? What genre works have
killed off their own most memorably? Does it always help the story?
Which writers have a special gift for this dark art?
Saturday 12noon Mining Your Obsessions
Beth Bernobich
Patricia Bray
Gregory Frost
Joshua B. Palmatier
Tamora Pierce (M)
"Write what you know," they say. If you're writing about a poet who
lives on a space station, how does it help that you're nuts about
cycling, cryptology, forensics, mathematics, or blade weapons? Our
panelists will explore this and other questions related to finding
unlikely connections between what you're writing and what you care
about.
Saturday 5pm Kaffeeklatsch
Sunday 10am Reading (0.5 hrs)
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deaths
Date: 2008-02-10 11:42 am (UTC)David Eddings - He killed off Torak, a god in the Belgariad and in the Mallorean he killed off major characters from the Belgariad
Terry Pratchett - he killed of the main characters in Small Gods, among other big deaths, such as Deaths daughter and Mort...
Anne McCaffery - she killed off Robinton the Master Harper
Agatha Christie - she killed off her detective Poirot
Dumas killed major characters left and right
and Shakespeare: Hamlet anyone?
Re: deaths
Date: 2008-02-10 02:33 pm (UTC)