K. Tempest Bradford

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July 12th, 2010 | Tags: in which I am silly, photo gallery, Readercon, Readercon 21, sadface | Category: Conventions | Comments (19)

[ July 9, 2010 4:00 pm to July 11, 2010 12:00 pm. ] Looks like I will be on four panels/discussions at Readercon this weekend. In addition to that we’re having the eBooks and SF Magazines discussion on Saturday night. Here’s my schedule for those who are interested:

Talk / Discussion: How Electrons have Changed Writing and Reading — Friday 4:00 PM, ME/CT
Cecilia Tan with discussion by Inanna Arthen, Leah Bobet, K. [...]

July 7th, 2010 | Tags: ebooks, future of publishing, Interstitial Arts Foundation, magazines, panels, Readercon, Readercon 21 | Category: Conventions, Events, Technology | Comments (4)

So I have a couple of stories that I’d like to sell as individual eBooks, just to try the whole process out. I’ve made the ePub file — which took more doing than should have been necessary… — and I’ve tried it out on the eReaders I have around. But I’d really appreciate it if [...]

June 16th, 2010 | Category: Conventions, My Fiction, Publications | Comments (7)

I was recruited to this panel the night before as Charlie Jane wanted to balance the panel out. She was apparently afraid there’d be too many “made of win” people. The discussion got heated several times and no one recorded my meltdown of fury at Anastasia. But overall it was productive and awesome:
@tinytempest #Dollhouse panel [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Dollhouse, flames on the side of my face, wiscon, wiscon 34, WisCon by the Twitters, wiscon panels | Category: Conventions | Comments (7)

Here are the tweets I could find posted during the Revenge of the Not Another Fucking Race Panel at WisCon 34. A good time was definitely had by all:
@tinytempest Narrowly escaped being the Vanna White of this panel.
@wrdnrd This year’s not-another-race-panel features super awesome category “what would johanna do??” (Don’t cry, sis!)
@tinytempest @ceciliatan [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: wiscon, wiscon 34, WisCon by the Twitters, wiscon panels | Category: Conventions | Comments (2)

These are the tweets I could find associated with Friday’s Chicks Dig Time Lords panel at WisCon 34. It was a lot of fun talking about Doctor Who with such fine people, and Twitter can only capture part of it:
@tinytempest “I was seduced into Doctor Who fandom by a really cute boy” says @lynnemthomas
@rhiannonrevolts [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Chicks Dig Time Lords, wiscon, wiscon 34, wiscon panels | Category: Conventions | Comments (1)

As always happens after a con of awesomeness, the follows and friend requests on various social networks went way up from normal as I met and connected with a ton of new, awesome, wonderful people. However, because I am always running around like a crazy person at cons I don’t always remember everyone by LJ [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: being social, new connections, wiscon 34 | Category: Conventions | Comments (2)

Late last week as I was getting settled in at WisCon couple of people brought this to my attention:
“I probably won’t ever be at WisCon again, sadly, as it used to be one of my favorite cons, but RaceFail has made it very unwelcoming and unsafe for me.” –Jay Lake
This was a comment on someone’s [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: flames on the side of my face | Category: Blog Against Racism, Conventions, Rants, Writing | Comments (37)

Would anyone be interested in having a little netbook gathering since there won’t be a netbook panel again this year? People who are interested in netbooks could come and ask questions and paw at netbooks, people who own them can talk about the awesome stuff they’re doing with netbooks, and some other netbook-related activity.
Thoughts?

May 24th, 2010 | Tags: netbooks, wiscon, wiscon 34 | Category: Conventions | Comments (3)

Last year’s POC dinner was a big hit and folks have been asking if we’re going to do it again. I say: YES. Because I loved it and want more. This year we’ll have several gatherings just in case someone can’t make one or the other, though only one will be POC-only. If you identify [...]

May 24th, 2010 | Tags: POC, POC SF Represent, wiscon, wiscon 34, wiscon poc meetup | Category: Conventions | Comments (8)

Because I have been disconnected from most of the blogosphere due to my intense (yet awesome) job, I have no idea if anyone is coordinating a mass POC meetup thing similar to what we had last year. I would be very happy to organize such a thing if no one else is doing so, but [...]

May 21st, 2010 | Tags: wiscon, wiscon 34 | Category: Conventions | Comments (6)

[ May 27, 2010 to June 1, 2010. ] I have less than a week to go before WisCon, hooray! Thinking of that made me realize that I haven’t posted my panel schedule here. It’s light this year and thus I will likely be a lot saner. But I am contemplating doing a panel in the overflow room. We’ll see. Meantime, here you go:
Chicks [...]

May 21st, 2010 | Tags: feminism, wiscon, wiscon 34, wiscon panels | Category: Conventions, Events, News, Readings | Comments (1)

I haven’t posted to this blog in a long while, sorry. My job is pretty intense (but awesome) and I have a million other projects and jobs going on, which means my fun time is limited. Or I’m just tired. But some fairly significant things are going on and I’ve been extremely remiss in mentioning [...]

November 11th, 2009 | Tags: activism, award nominations, awards, Last Drink Bird Head Award | Category: Conventions, News | Comments (8)

I used to go to WorldCon every year without fail, kind of like the way I go to WisCon now. But long ago WorldCon chafed on me, and I realized that it was far more expensive than other cons and more of a trip to see my friends than an enjoyable con experience. Beyond that, [...]

August 12th, 2009 | Tags: WorldCon | Category: Conventions, Elsewhere on the Internets, Geekitude | Comments (18)