| Day | Start | End | Title | Description | Location | Panelists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 2:00 PM | 2:50 PM | How A Manuscript Becomes A Book | “I’m just an MS…sittin’ here on an editor’s desk…I hope and pray to be a book someday, but today I am just an MS!” There’s plenty of information on the web about how to write and sell a manuscript , but the process after the deal is signed is often opaque to new writers. We’ll walk through the steps a manuscript typically goes through between deal day and launch day, and what authors can do to help the process go smoothly. | ISLE ROYALE | Cherie M. Priest, Navah Wolfe, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Richard Shealy, Yanni Kuznia, -E |
| Friday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Disaster Response in Science Fiction and Fantasy | Many SFF stories feature cataclysmic events , both natural and man-made , that rain destruction on civilian populations. We’re accustomed to seeing the camera spend a few moments “looking for the helpers” as our heroes crash through occupied buildings or drop mines on the Klingon fleet, but what about the hours and days that follow? What opportunities do science fiction and fantasy present to educate and reflect on disaster response processes in the real world? | ISLE ROYALE | Jon Skovron, Marissa Lingen, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, Diana Rowland |
| Saturday | 4:00 PM | 4:50 PM | Works We Love and What We Wish We Could Change About Them | Many stories we love contain critical plot elements that frustrate us–such as the memory wipes in The Dark is Rising and Doctor Who and the treatment of Susan in the Chronicles of Narnia. How do these stories inspire us to write and edit differently, and bring different kinds of stories to life in our own fiction and media? | PETOSKEY | Cherie M. Priest, Denise M. Beucler, Kate Elliott, Navah Wolfe, Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
| Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Autograph Session (5 PM) | Come meet your favorite authors, artists and musicians and have them sign things! (Please limit your signing requests to 3 items per person.) | ST. CLAIR | A. T. Greenblatt, Addie J. King, Andrea Phillips, Angus Watson, Benjamin C. Kinney, Brandon Crilly, Charlie Jane Anders, Cherie M. Priest, Dan Moren, David D. Levine, Dyrk Ashton, Izzy Wasserstein, John Chu, John Scalzi, Kate Elliott, Lucy A. Snyder, Marie Bilodeau, Marissa Lingen, Max Gladstone, Merrie Haskell, Mishell Baker, Navah Wolfe, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ryan Van Loan, Shweta Adhyam, Stephanie Morris, Teresa Nielsen Hayden |