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I know some of you will be in Denver this week and weekend for the 66^th World Science Fiction Convention. If you feel like you need a shot of Carlson, here’s where to find me:

Friday, 10:00am – Kaffeeklatch. Ask me all of those tough, tricky questions you’ve been dying to ask!

Friday, 11:30am – Are Writers’ Workshops Right For You? I’m a survivor of last year’s Writers of the Future intensive lock-you-in-a-room-all-day-for-five-days workshops as well as the veteran of four writers’ groups in three states. And my co-panels are instructors from places like Clarion and Sycamore Hill. Be afraid!

Saturday, 10:00am – Reading. Hear my brain work! Get free prizes! I’m terrified of finding myself alone in this room after Friday night’s parties, of course, so there will indeed be some free autographed books and such to tempt you!

AND THE GREATEST DETOUR OF THEM ALL – On Saturday, at 3pm, I’ll be two hours west of the convention at a book release party in Leadville, Colorado, which becomes the new U.S. capital in my Plague Year series! Come with me if you want to live. Run for the hills!!!

Sunday, 1:00pm – The Possibilities Of Time Travel: Physics, Not Fiction. Yes, it’s true. I’m actually from an alternate universe and I’m here to tell you how and why! As will Todd Brun, the moderator, a quantum physicist and currently a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California, who works on quantum computers and related things. Wow!

Aside from a few business meetings and another wildly off-the-charts “I’m at the convention but I’m not” side trip for a VIP tour of the NORAD Strategic Air Command base in nearby Colorado Springs, I expect I’ll be meandering around the convention center from one interesting panel to another, not to mention hunting down some of my favorite writers for autographs. Please feel free to say hi. I don’t really hit people with shovels and eat them. Unless there’s no other choice. But I think I’ll probably be getting a sandwich every day, so it’s all right… isn’t it?

Labels: book signing, WorldCon schedule