BayCon 2023: Stars and Stripes and Spaceships, Oh My!

Saturday, July 1 through Tuesday, July 4th

Santa Clara Marriott

This year’s BayCon promises to be marvelous. So many fun things to do, so many wonderful people participating. The Programming Ninjas have given me quite an exciting schedule!

SATURDAY

Readings

1 Jul 2023, Saturday 13:00 – 14:30, CA Ballroom 8 (Santa Clara Marriott)

I’ll be reading from my new short story, To Reach For The Stars, from Jewels Of Darkover.

Running Away From Home

1 Jul 2023, Saturday 14:30 – 16:00, Portland (Santa Clara Marriott)

Travel is more complicated and risky than ever. What should writers do? Take readers away to foreign cultures and alien worlds? Or show readers what a forbidding landscape exists right outside the front door?

Medicated And Motivated

1 Jul 2023, Saturday 16:00 – 17:30, CA Ballroom 8 (Santa Clara Marriott)

How do you keep writing when you have to face the daily battle of chronic pain?

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SUNDAY

Why Movies Mean So Much to Us

2 Jul 2023, Sunday 10:00 – 11:30, CA Ballroom 4 and 5 (Santa Clara Marriott)

From “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, You’re my only hope!” to “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” we all can quote lines from our favorites.   Movies have been a deep and enduring part of our entire lives. What good do they do for us?  What bad?

What Every Editor Wished Authors Knew

2 Jul 2023, Sunday 11:30 – 13:00, Sedona Room (Santa Clara Marriott)

At some time in your writing career chances are you are going to work with an editor, but many authors know next to nothing about the field of editing. Copyeditors, acquisition editors, managing editors, line editors, developmental editors—What do they do? How do you know what kind of editor you need? How do you find a good editor? How do you work with an editor of a magazine, anthology or publishing house? Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask.

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Signing: Lillian Csernica

2 Jul 2023, Sunday 13:00 – 14:00, Autograph Table (Santa Clara Marriott)

The dealer’s room will probably have at least some of the anthologies where you can find my short fiction. If all goes well, I will have book cover postcards available for $5 each, suitable for signing.

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MONDAY

Let’s Build a Monster!

3 Jul 2023, Monday 13:00 – 14:30, Portland (Santa Clara Marriott)

Panelists choose audience members to help them build the best beastie.

Short Sighted

3 Jul 2023, Monday 14:30 – 16:00, CA Ballroom 8 (Santa Clara Marriott)

A discussion of the new opportunities for publishing novellas and other non-novel-length work.

Hope to see you there!