{"id":391,"date":"2007-08-16T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/08\/16\/where-ill-be-at-worldcon-2007\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:08","slug":"where-ill-be-at-worldcon-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/08\/16\/where-ill-be-at-worldcon-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ll be at Worldcon 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/NIPPON2007.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/NIPPON2007.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nippon2007.us\/\">Nippon 2007<\/a> have just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nippon2007.us\/programming\/schedule\/\">the complete program grid<\/a>. Lots of great panels and events. You can find me at the following on Friday and Saturday at this year\u2019s Worldcon\u2026\n<p>FRIDAY AUGUST 31<\/p>\n<p>Fri 1400<br><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO<\/span><br>A slide presentation of John Picacio\u2019s artwork.<br>(One and all are invited, whether you pop in for a few minutes or stay for the whole show\u2026.images move briskly; lots of new work will be presented; and folks are welcome to interject with questions at any time about process, techniques, or anything they can think of. Totally casual.) <\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1<\/p>\n<p>Sat 1000<br><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">WHAT EDITORS WANT FROM ARTISTS<\/span><br>Participants: Bob EGGLETON, Jennie FARIES, John PICACIO,<br>Karen Haber SILVERBERG, Lou ANDERS<br>Is it realism? A particular color? Many editors return to<br>the same artists again and again. What sets these<br>paragons apart? Style? Originality? A distinctive look<br>or varied approach? Reliable telepathy? (Oh, and must<br>the artist read the story, or what?)<\/p>\n<p>Sat 1200<br><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">AUTOGRAPHING<\/span><br>John PICACIO \/ Eileen GUNN \/ Geoffrey A. LANDIS<\/p>\n<p>Sat 1300<br><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">DEL REY UPCOMING TITLES<\/span><br>(Betsy Mitchell will run the show and I\u2019ll make a brief cameo appearance to talk about ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS by Michael Moorcock, for which I\u2019m doing the cover and interior art. Betsy will present some of my interior art for the book.)<\/p>\n<p>Beyond those events, I\u2019ll be at the Chesley Awards (Fri 1600), the Art Show Reception (Fri 1800), and the Hugo Awards festivities (which kick off Sat 1600), and of course in the hotel bar with pals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louanders.com\/blog.html\">Lou Anders<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulcornell.blogspot.com\/\">Paul Cornell<\/a>, and anyone who wishes to join us. If you\u2019re attending, say hi (or \u201ckonnichiwa\u201d\/\u201dkombanwa\u201d) and I look forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Nippon 2007 have just posted the complete program grid. Lots of great panels and events. You can find me at the following on Friday and Saturday at this year\u2019s Worldcon\u2026 FRIDAY AUGUST 31 Fri 1400THE ART OF JOHN PICACIOA slide presentation of John Picacio\u2019s artwork.(One and all are invited, whether you pop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/NIPPON2007.jpg?fit=623%2C155","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-6j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}