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([personal profile] onyxhawke Jan. 18th, 2009 02:04 pm)
Well, it's snowing outside, but the con is still in full swing. My two panels were well attended. The first one was with the fabulous Sara A. Harvey, Keith R. A. DeCandido, James D. Macdonald, and Inanna Arthen. Where we covered bad contracts, the unfortunate experiences of Sara and Inanna, James's work with Writers Beware and some of the practices Keith obsereved at a former employer. While the range of things that can go wrong with a contract, or the relationship with an agent, or publisher is a seriuos topic, this was a fun panel. I haven't had as much fun, complete with laughs, swearing, anecdotes and one upsmanship.

Next panel was on bio ethics. This panel had people with varied backgrounds and when it got rolling we discussed a variety of topics from autonomy to informed consent, all of which feed into the ethics equation. Thomas Easton (m), Bonnie Barlow Turner, Amy Chused, Richard Stallman, myself and one other person who's name was not on the schedule were delighted to have a full audience.


I'm off to see if i can swing lunch or at least a drink with one of my clients.

Cheers,


From: [identity profile] ktpinto.livejournal.com


I really enjoyed that first panel! It was a good learning experience!

From: [identity profile] onyxhawke.livejournal.com


Thanks but the rest of the panel did the heavy lifting, i just delivered tasteless jokes, and an occasional snippet of non-nonsense. Keith, James, Sarah, and Inanna were fantastic.

From: [identity profile] onyxhawke.livejournal.com

:-)


Not at all, but when they come as easy as having a pulse... hard work they are not.
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