If you are coming to NOTOCON, and if you are still wondering why it might be a good idea to attend my lecture on promulgation strategies, consider the words of our U.S.G.L. Supreme and Holy King in the...like to note that many people are planning to attend this lecture. I recommend arriving a few minutes early to ensure that you get a seat. Check out the full schedule to make your plan for NOTOCON

...Excuses Season Three Episode Nine: Attending Cons From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/07/26/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-9-attending-conventions-part-i/ Key points: First of Two Parts! Conferences are for training, conventions are for fanning. Tradeshows/Expos are for industry, and media cons are exhibitions. For an aspiring writer, conventions provide inexpensive introductions and networking...

( Update: I found the abstracts (PDF). They give a really good overview of the conference.) I spent the weekend of 4 July (happy birthday, Berthe Erica Crow!) in Bristol, at the fabulous first ever... On a separate note, two of my friends -- one of whom, you might have noticed, just ran an amazing conference on Diana Wynne Jones -- won Mythopoeic Awards ! Congratulations, Charlie and Kristin

Second Symposium on Astrosociology DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 30, 2009! Event: SPESIF 2010 Conference Track: Second Symposium on Astrosociology Dates: February 23-26, 2010 Location: Johns Hopkins...paper goes if you are unsure. You can use my gmail address : melsmarsh AT gmail Crossposted to : thelunarsociety , callsforpapers EDIT : DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED AGAIN TO AUGUST

After a whirlwind two weeks, I'm finally back in Mobile.   From July 1 through July 7, I was in Bloomington, Minnesota at CONvergence. It totally ROCKED! I had the best time and am seriously considering...all the fun I had, I'm happy to be home again. Mel the Muse traveled with me and collected an array of new Writer Motivating Devices that she's eager to use on me. But first...The Big Announcement.

The FOCS accepted papers (with abstracts) have been posted. Since not every conference is doing this, I think it bears repeating that the addition of abstracts to these lists is a very welcome innovation of recent years. And while I'm making a short link-only post, an amusing photo gallery that I was pointed to recently: the Russian solution to the art-gallery problem .

I just returned from Montpellier, France, where I was invited to speak at WG 2009 , the 35th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. This was my first trip to France,...in his "Platologic Computation" talk (available here for Windows or here for iTunes). All in all, a good conference, and one I would attend much more regularly if only it weren't so far away

So because I'm a spaz I have some delayed info for everyone. Here, in Spokane there is going to be a youth conference next month for LGBTQ youth ages 14-21 that is completely free. Under the cut is the...another depending on how many people are actually interested. I guess I just want to know what everyone thinks of this idea and if anyone would be interested. X-posted to many other communites

So because I'm a spaz I have some delayed info for everyone. Here, in Spokane there is going to be a youth conference next month for LGBTQ youth ages 14-21 that is completely free. Under the cut is the...another depending on how many people are actually interested. I guess I just want to know what everyone thinks of this idea and if anyone would be interested. X-posted to many other communities