14 Jul 2024

“The Forces of Creativity” on Read My Lips with akaRadioRed

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I’ve got a new online conversation scheduled for tomorrow! This will be a panel discussion about creativity, and I have no idea what to expect, except that I think it will be fun! You can watch live, or catch it later on demand.

Here’s the info, as provided by the host, akaRadioRed:

Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with producer / host akaRadioRed

WATCH / LISTEN LIVE – Monday, July 15, 2024

2 PM Pacific / 5 PM Eastern / Find us in your time zone

LISTEN Live: Read My Lips Radio

WATCH Live-streaming and On-demand: LinkedIn + Facebook + YouTube

LISTEN Later: On-demand*** The live audio does not play at this link

EDIT: The live portion has come and gone, but you can go to YouTube to stream the finished conversation!

 

Upon the Read My Lips stage with passion bright

akaRadioRed’s Scarlett mic in the live-streaming light

Welcomes you to The Forces of Creativity today

Featuring three Creatives who’ve got a lot to say

Jeffrey A. Carver, Takiyah Smith, and Mickey Mikkelson, too

Watch or listen, we’re curating inspiration for you!

 

17 Feb 2022

Boskone 2022

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It’s been two years since I’ve attended a live, in-the-flesh convention. This weekend I’ll be at Boskone, at Boston’s Westin Seaport District hotel, down on the waterfront. Covid rates have fallen dramatically in the area, thankfully. Still, the con requires proof of vaccination, plus masking up indoors, and I am totally onboard with that.

I’ll be moderating two panels on Friday, plus doing a joint reading with two other authors. On Saturday, I’ll be autographing, plus taking part in two more panels.

Here’s my schedule:

  • First Contact Scenarios (moderating) — 18 Feb 2022, Friday 4 p.m., Burroughs
  • Group Reading with Suzanne Palmer, Nathan Toronto, and moi — Friday 6 p.m., Griffin
  • Bridging the Great Divide: Indie and Trad Publishing (moderating) — Friday 8 p.m., Burroughs
  • Autographing — Saturday 2 p.m., Galleria
  • What’s At Stake? — Saturday 4 p.m., Marina I
  • The Future of Astronomy — Saturday 5 p.m., Marina I

If you’re attending Boskone, please stop and say hello!

 

 

 

28 Sep 2021

Say Hello in New Hampshire

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If you happen to be in the vicinity of West Lebanon, New Hampshire this Saturday, come visit the Upper Valley Comic Expo between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. You’ll find me there as one of the featured authors, along with some of my colleagues, including V.S. Holmes and Jennifer Anne Gordon, fellow members of the Creative Edge publicity group. Also featured is actress Gigi Edgley, of Farscape fame (she played the mischievous Chiana).

This is more of a book/author/artist/actor fair than a con like the ones I usually go to. (No panels, for example.) It might actually be a better opportunity to meet and chat with authors; I think it will be very relaxing and low key. Also, it’s only $5 admission, and it’s a benefit for Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Brought to you by Sci-fi Saturday Night! Come say hi, and pick up some autographed books while you’re there!

5 Sep 2020

Dragon Con Greeting in Virtual Space—with Imp!

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Author with imp

Dragon Con Virtual is underway this weekend! As a scheduled program participant for the torpedoed-by-pandemic real-life con, I was asked to shoot a two-minute video greeting about why I love science fiction and Dragon Con. It’s probably up on their site somewhere, but blast if I know where, so I’m posting it here.

In the course of shooting the video, an imp appeared in the corner of my screen during one take. Where’d she come from?? It wasn’t my best take, but the imp was too charming not to keep. So here’s the Outtake—with Imp:

Or directly on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oY6WWvkOtZY

If you want to see my actual best take, here it is (but no imp, alas):

https://youtu.be/L9R4RRL1w5A

8 May 2020

Author Zoom Chat – Saturday May 9, 2:00 EDT

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What was originally intended as a bookstore event at Annie’s Book Stop in Worcester, MA, has morphed into an online event, so you can attend no matter where you live! Even the ISS, if their wifi is up to the task. I’m not saying that the astronauts will attend, but I’ll bet they could if they wanted to.

I’ll be zooming in with two of my friends and colleagues in the science fiction trade: Steven Popkes and L.J. (Lisa) Cohen, for a conversation about the writing life, our newest books, and what about our writing life led us to write our newest books. Questions from the legume gallery will be encouraged.

For more information, and a teaser, visit the Author Spotlight thingy at https://anniesbookstopworcester.blog/2020/05/01/author-spotlight-friday-jeffrey-a-carver/.

Oh, also visit the signup page at https://www.facebook.com/events/689350495158992/ because you have to RSVP to get the login information.

Be the first on your block, wherever your block may be!

14 Feb 2020

Boskone This Weekend!

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Boskone header

This weekend, Boston’s long-running Boskone science fiction convention, will be running in the Westin Hotel on the waterfront—same location as Arisia, a month ago. Where Arisia was somewhat media oriented, Boskone is more focused on the literary end of science fiction. It also usually boasts one of the best art shows among SF cons.

I’ll be there Friday evening, Saturday, and for a little while on Sunday. If you see me, stop and say hello! I’ll also be selling autographed books during the Boskone Book Party, Saturday evening. Come buy some books! (Or just say hello.)

Here’s a link to my schedule.

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7 Nov 2019

I Will Be at Philcon!

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Philcon logo

I’ll be attending my first Philcon this weekend. By all accounts, it’s a great convention. I look forward to seeing friends, making friends, and taking a little time to myself for the trip. I’ll be autographing Saturday, and moderating several panels. Here’s my schedule. Please say hi if you see me!

Saturday, November 9

  • 11:00am — Autographs: Daniel Kimmel, Jeffrey Carver, Keith R.A. DeCandido
  • 1:00pm — How to Establish Your Own Imprint
  • 3:00pm — Adapting Novels Into Screenplays

Sunday, November 10

  • 11:00am — Godzilla and the Monsterverse

 

2 Jul 2019

Resuming Course

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So, the last couple of weeks were pretty hard, with my brother’s passing—and thank you all for your kind thoughts and wishes. Now I’m trying once more to get up a head of steam. The Reefs of Time launches in just three weeks!

What I’m focusing on now is proofing and correcting the print edition of Reefs, and yes, this is getting close to the wire. (And any corrections I make that are not just formatting, such as bad hyphenation, uneven spacing of justified text, and so on—meaning word or punctuation or italicizing corrections—all those have to be copied into the ebook and the source file, as well. It’s an incredibly finicky business.)

Due to unavoidable scheduling conflict with my brother’s memorial service in August, I have canceled plans to attend Worldcon in Dublin. That hurts, because I picked the launch date specifically to have the book out in time to promote it at Worldcon. Well, family first, and no regrets about making that choice; I just wish it hadn’t happened. And I mean that in every possible sense.

Okay, this 460-page book isn’t going to proofread itself. See you later.

15 Aug 2017

Worldcon 75 Wraps

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Worldcon ended on Sunday, and as a way of saying farewell, I thought I would post this picture of the welcome sign.

I had a Kaffeeklatch on Sunday that was well attended, and included attendees of various ages from countries all over the world. They had come to drink coffee and ask me questions, so that meant I did a lot of talking. They all seemed to enjoy it, and I know I did. One local fan (I think he said he was Finnish, but it all blurs) did a little video interview with me afterward. I suppose that might end up on youtube someday.

And here’s a picture of one of the highlights for me in terms of programming I watched from the audience. It’s NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren giving a presentation on space medicine based on his experiences on the International Space Station.

Dr. Lindgren is a wonderfully entertaining speaker, and a gracious ambassador for the space program, based on a brief chat we had in the corridor. He’s also a science fiction fan. (At the Spokane worldcon, he presented one of the Hugo awards via Skype from the space station.)

Here’s a picture of him zipped up in his zero-g sleeping bag. Cozy!

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