Sunday, March 23, 2008

Midsouthcon 2008 Schedule

Midsouthcon will be held this year March 28-30, at the Holiday Inn Select, next to the airport in Memphis TN. This year's guests include Eric Flint, Ben Bova, Bob Eggleton, Lynn Wein, Candace Havens, Shane Lacy Hensley, The FuMP featuring Rob Balder, and Selina Rosen as the Toastmaster.

Here is my schedule for the weekend. I'm still a fan too, and I enjoy meeting new fans, so don't be shy to introduce yourself. See you there!

Corporate Interests in Outer Space
Sat 03/29, 10:00 AM

On The Edge: The Novella - A Short Novel or a Long Short Story
Sat 03/29, 3:00 PM

Yard Dog Press Roadshow
Sat 03/29, 4:00 PM

Robert Brown reading
Sun 03/30, 1:00 PM

Posted by Robert Brown at 10:50 | | links to this post

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Conestoga 2007

I've decided I'll not be attending Conestoga this year, which is a shame as I was really looking forward to it, but I've been promised a spot in the lineup in 2008 so with luck and good timing I'll be back then. This may open up other convention possibilities later in the year though. We shall see.

Posted by Robert Brown at 23:44 | | links to this post

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Novel(ty) in Progress

The progress I've made on my novel, which I'll refer to as TCON, has so far been slow, a lot slower than I'd have liked, but I am moving along on it... slowly. So slowly in fact that I began wondering how you estimate how long a story will be when it's finished. I asked a few of my fellow writers that question and pretty much got the answer "you just sort-of... know".
No, sorry, I don't know, but I intend to figure it out.
So I started thinking about how to extimate that. In my case, I used the number of words in my manuscript and tried to make a comparison with how far I'd gotten into the outline (my outlines look like treatments). What I came up with for a total word count was mind-boggling 150,000 plus! Of course, when you consider the lengths of novels being printed these days it's not as staggering a notion as I'd originally imagined.
With edits no doubt it'll weigh in somewhat thinner, which is fine.
I'm going to set aside a small part of my site to track my progress on TCON, and we'll see how it goes.

Posted by Robert Brown at 23:55 | | links to this post

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