Eastercon stuff

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I seem to be doing quite a lot at Eastercon this year, including a panel with Jim Butcher, Ashley Pollard, and others. Fortunately it's the "game of the book" panel so I shouldn't quite come across as an idiot, but even so...

My past experiences with being on panels with big name authors include finding out (as a panel with Philip Pullman started) that nobody actually involved in running the con was present, and that none of us knew who was supposed to be moderating it. I ended up moderating it myself. And on a panel with Roger Zelazny I recall going into a rant about the lack of imagination shown by authors who always put Jack the Ripper into stories with a Victorian setting, then learning that his latest novel's viewpoint character was JtR's dog.

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[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

I signed up to do panel stuff for them, but never heard a dickie bird, so am assuming that I'm not on any!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Well, I was asked at a party if I'd be on some comics panels, said 'Yes' and didn't hear anything until a couple of weeks ago when I found myself supposedly on three, one of which is not on the programme so, presumably, has been cancelled. Pity. It was one I was looking forward to doing, as I have 'views'. I found out who was moderating the panel I don't really want to do - and am getting more and more apprehensive about - and it isn't me. The other panel, which is about the MCU, is one I will not moderate.

One of my friends received an email from the concom about an offer her husband - a scientist in an interesting field that has received quite a lot of media attention - made to do a presentation that was incomprehensible to all three of us...

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I have just sent a message to the programme manager (and copied to the other members of the panel) which says, basically, "I am the wrong person for this panel. I have no knowledge, no enthusiasm and nothing to contribute," so maybe you'll get an emergency call up(!) I would feel much, much more guilty about doing this if the first I'd heard of it hadn't been about ten days ago.