Are You An Official Minion of Joshua Palmatier?

I would like to announce that wldhrsjen3 has become an "Official Minion" for Joshua Palmatier due to the following. This means that, when I eventually take over the world through the domination of books, wldhrsjen3 will be officially elevated from the Hordes sent to worship me and will have a place in the palatial Parthenon I will create. And the Parthenon will be beautiful. Let's just say there will be trees. And fountains. Definitely fountains.

How can you earn the right to enter the Parthenon? How can YOU become an "Official Minion"? Here are some simple guidelines to follow:

Official Minion of Joshua Palmatier guidelines:

( Guidelines under the cut for your amusement. You've got to work for this, baby. )

And those are the guidelines. Many of you have already met some or all of these guidelines (well, maybe not 10) and you may consider yourself Minions at this point in time. I'm going to see if comixboy wouldn't mind creating a little "Minion of Joshua Palmatier" icon for me, so I can bestow them upon all of you Minions out there, so watch for that in the near future. wldhrsjen3 will be getting one, certainly. And if you don't yet qualify . . . get to work! Raid that bookstore! Talk to that librarian! And pester Oprah until she caves!


PS--I'm also accepting applications for cabana boys. Send photos and *cough* measurements to jpalmatier@sff.net *grin*

Boskone Schedule

Here'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)