TusCon 35 Program

TusCon 35 will be held November 7-9 at the InnSuites Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. The guest of honor this year is Diana Gabaldon, the toastmaster is Ed Bryant, and you can access the full list of confirmed participants at the TusCon 35 website.

My schedule follows:

Friday
5:00 - What is urban fantasy today? Where did it start? How has it evolved? Pamela Lloyd, Jill Knowles, Yvonne Navarro, Janni Lee Simner
7:00 - Meet the Guests
8:30 - Reading by Pamela Lloyd and Karl Grotegut
9:30 - Where does science-fiction leave off and fantasy begin? Catherine Wells, Pamela Lloyd, Adam Niswander, Dennis McKiernan
Saturday
2:00 - Mass Autographing
Sunday
2:00 - Will religion always be with us? (2) Is it hardwired? Does it have a practical purpose? David Brown, Pamela Lloyd, Will Shetterly, David Foster

A Birthday Feast

This evening we celebrated my youngest son's twenty-third birthday with a wonderful feast: vegetarian "cutlets" (about which all I know is the main ingredient is walnuts), mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, potato pancakes with sour cream and homemade applesauce, carrots, peas, broccoli with hollandaise sauce, and a peach pie for desert--all of it homemade. We love having the whole family together like this; our busy lives mean that even though we all live in the same town, we don't get together as often as we'd like.