Boskone 60 Schedule

COME ONE, COME ALL -

I'm delighted to be on programming at Boskone in 2023.  It's one of my favorite conventions to go to, in part because it's proven to be one of the best places for me to discover new clients.  It also has one of the best proportion of pro attendees of pretty much any convention outside of a WorldCon or a World Fantasy.

My panels and panel times are all below.  In addition to three panels, I also have a Kaffeeklatsch, which is a good chance to have questions answered in a small group setting.  Because it's limited seating you need to check the convention website for information on signing up.

A lot of other agency clients are going to be at the convention, many on programming, including Dan Moren, Suzanne Palmer, Auston Habershaw, Walter Jon Williams, Toni L. P. Kelner aka Leigh Perry, Zac Topping, Randee Dawn, and Steve Kelner.  

The convention and all programming takes place at the Westin Boston Seaport District, just up Summer St. from South Station and the Red Line and a shorter walk from the Seaport Silver Line.  Over the fifteen years I've been attending Boskone, it's been quite something to go back each year and see all the new hotels, apartments, restaurants and more that have come in to the area. 

I look forward to seeing some of you in person.

Boskone 60 Schedule

Friday, February 17, 2023 -  4pm - Marina 2

What Writers Need to Know About Marketing


Friday, February 17, 2023 -  7pm - Marina 2

Constructive Criticism


Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 2:30 pm - Galleria

Kaffeeklatsch 


Sunday, February 19, 2023 - 11:30 am - Marina 4

Contracts: Talking Terms

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Joshua and the Query Manager

I decided to change my process for getting queries as I prepared for heading from 2022 into 2023.  And here's an updated/revised version of my earlier blog post about querying. THE GUIDELINES: 1.  If you don’t follow the guidelines, your query will be deleted, unread and without a response. 2.  I'm now using Query Manager, a system that's generally been proven helpful to both agents and authors, and all queries should be submitted via https://querymanager.com/JoshuaBilmes. 3.  Once upon a time, I asked only for the query letter, but it's been a long time since queries were sent in #10 business envelopes with an SASE. At this point, I'm not longer accepting paper queries, and I'm asking you to send ten sample pages with your Query Manager query.  This will help speed things along, since I can more easily give a "yes" or "no" on borderline queries where the pages themselves are serving as tie-breaker, and I'm less likely to ask for a full m
Read more

Oscars Live Blog 2024

2:22 AM Oppenheimer.  And I am going to cut out pretty quickly because it almost 2:30 in the morning, and I have to get some sleep, and be at Hachette HQ for my first meeting of London Book Fair week in not much more than eight hours.  This winner is deserving enough.  I did see it twice. I didn’t like it more the second time, but I liked it well enough. 2:13 AM This was a tough category to predict, but no complaints about Emma Stone who gives a fearless performance that is sui generis in Poor Things. Look at that list of nominees, and this is the toughest category full of brilliant performances.  But Emma’s - it’s the sui generis part that makes it worthwhile of winning over the others IMHO. 2:11 AM The whole dessert thing is challenged when I am in a temporary borrowed hotel room.  However, Bryce, outside King Cross/St Pancras on Tue-Fri afternoon are some food stalls, and on Friday I went and got some brownies from the stall that has a dozen brownies all of which are tempting. Also
Read more

Borders, Post-Mortem

At this point, it's hard to see that Borders isn't on the verge of a bankruptcy filing, the best case scenario would be a Chapter 11 that would reorganize into a much smaller company that might have a go if focusing on stores that actually make money, but even that, I can't be real optimistic because same store sales are dropping so fast that a store which makes money today might not in two years. Though we live in a country that does allow companies to spend lots of time going bankrupt and doing it on multiple occasions, witness the airline industry. So what happened? OK, mid 1980s, Borders is one of the best stores around and starting to spread out in Michigan a little and lend out its inventory system. It's a good system. It lets stock sell down, then reorders. One day you might have 0 copies of The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers on the shelf, the next day they'll get 3 in. So everytime you go to Borders, even if it's once a week, you might see a slightly di
Read more