Readercon!

I’ve been attending, put on programming, and enjoying this conference for the last six years. I first went during the pandemic (2021) to their virtual program and have attended in person in Boston every year since.

Here is my schedule for this year:

Thursday, July 9 from 8-8:30 PM in Empower/Embrace room: Solo Reading. I’ll be reading from my time travel story “The Eliminator,” which came out digitally and in trade paperback from Water Dragon Publications in April of this year.

Friday, July 10 at 10:15 PM in Salon E: Meet the Pros(e). This is a “speed dating” sort of thing where you get to meet several authors at once around a table. I’ve been paired with authors way more notable than I and thoroughly enjoyed meeting them as well as meeting readers.

Saturday, July 11 from 3-4 PM in Salon E: Fighting for the Freedom to Read. This is my second year on this panel. It’s about censorship and book bans. As one of the few participants from Florida, where the new state slogan is “Fascism with Fire Ants, Fishing, and Fairways,” I’m an obvious choice.

Sunday, July 12 from 10-12 in the Author’s Alley section of the bookshop: I’ll have a table where I’ll be selling (at a discount) and signing copies of “The Eliminator,” “The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds” (eco-fiction published digitally and in trade paperback last year with Rampant Loon Publications), and HOLY COW: SF Stories from the Center of The World, an anthology of fiction set in the Middle East, where I got put to work as a co-editor after the editor bought my story “Crossing the Boundaries of Virtual Jerusalem,” which is a cyberpunk spy story and a plea for recognition of the humanity of all, coexistence, peace, and justice in Israel/Palestine.

If you’re coming, please drop by and say “hi.” It’s at the Marriott on Mall Road in Burlington, MA. Thursdays (including my reading) are always free to the public, so if you’d like to catch my reading, even if you aren’t signed up for the conference, please do consider it.

I’d especially like to get people to my reading. Those are a lot more fun when you have a larger crowd.

I hope to see some of you there next week—old friends, online acquaintances, and those who enjoy my writing.