Teresa Nielsen Hayden Panels Day Start End Location Title Description Panelists Friday 12:00 PM 12:50 PM ISLE ROYALE The Care and Feeding of Your Subject Expert Writing science fiction and fantasy requires a ton of research. Having the internet at our fingertips makes it easier than it used to be, but sometimes we need to ask an expert. Many folks are delighted to geek out about their specialties, but we still need to do due diligence, respect their time, and make sure we’re asking the right questions. How do you find qualified experts? Do you approach them with prepared questions? When is it ethical to pick someone’s brain for free, and when should you insist on compensating your expert? Marissa Lingen, Michael Kucharski, Monica Valentinelli, Patrick S. Tomlinson, Teresa Nielsen Hayden Friday 4:00 PM 4:50 PM ISLE ROYALE Collaborating With Your Copyeditor Bad copyedits are so legendary in this business that STET has become both a punchline and a battle-cry. But most copyeditors are genuinely trying to help authors achieve their vision. Let’s discuss how to form productive working relationships that produce more polished books and don’t leave anyone contemplating STET knuckle tattoos. Dear copyeditors: there is a typo in this panel description just for you. Richard Shealy, Michael R. Underwood, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, Jason Sizemore, Teresa Nielsen Hayden Saturday 1:00 PM 1:50 PM PETOSKEY It Was All A Dream…But Should It Have Been? “You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream!” says Alice at the end of Through The Looking Glass. Modern authors are often warned to avoid dream sequences, because it’s difficult to get readers to invest in a story that can be wrapped up with a Deus Ex Alarm Clock. But the concept endures from Through the Looking Glass to Spirited Away and Inception. When is a dreamland the right choice for a setting, and how do successful dreamlands in fiction maintain stakes and tension? Liz Derrington, Mari Ness, Seleste deLaney / Julie Particka, Shweta Adhyam, Teresa Nielsen Hayden Saturday 5:00 PM 5:50 PM ST. CLAIR 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.) 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, David Anthony Durham Sunday 1:00 PM 1:50 PM LEELANAW Imagining A Future Without Police Policing is so deeply-rooted in our ideas about society that calls to abolish policing can seem disconnected from reality. Won’t there always be bad guys? How would we enforce the rule of law? Even future utopias like Star Trek still have police. But alternative methods of justice exist in the world. What would a city, space station, or extra-planetary colony of the future without police look like? How could they build and maintain collaborative instead of adversarial justice systems? Addie J. King, Angus Watson, Pablo Defendini, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Andrea Phillips