I am in Ottawa with my mama!
We are staying with our friends Amal and Stu, who have provided LO! all the sourdough bread and smoked salmon a girl could desire!
We are here to hang out with them after too long a pandemic separation, but also… to attend our first Can*Con!
Here is my schedule:
Saturday, October 14
10:00am EDT: Writing Speculative Poetry
Poetry offers a different kind of exploration for speculative subjects and worlds. It has also been instrumental for a long time to add flavour to existing works, adding art and song to fantastical worlds. How do we approach storytelling and writing when working on poetry, if it differs from writing prose? How does building worlds, establishing tone, and exploring themes work different in poetry?
1:00pm EDT: Reading
Sunday, October 15
10:00am EDT Bonds of Sisterhood in SFF
Sometimes sisters just get each other – or drive each other up a wall. Or both! Like with other types of familial relationships in fiction, sisterhood carries a particular sort of nuance, whether it’s enemies-to-family like Gamora and Nebula, having only each other to rely on like Revenger’s Adrana and Fura, or growing together over decades and longer. Our panelists discuss their favorite fictional sisters (either blood or found) and why their relationships are particularly compelling, and the various ways notions of sisterhood can be explored in stories.
C.S.E. Cooney 
Possible to buy a signed copy or so to be sent to Sweden? Loved bone swans short Story collection and the twice-drowned saint as ebooks and would love to have signed copies of them. / Jonathan, nighteyethewolf at gmail.com
Hallo! Thank you SO KINDLY for reading!
My artist friend Shannon Potratz just designed some high quality beautiful bookplates for me—which would be easier to send! If you bought two copies locally, then I could send you two bookplates—one for each of them! If you’d rather signed physical books, I am SURE we can work that out! I’m traveling at present, but I’ll be back next week, and we can discuss logistics!