{"id":382,"date":"2011-07-28T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/?p=382"},"modified":"2011-07-28T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T22:46:00","slug":"on-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/on-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"On Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfwwritersconference.org\/\">DFWCon<\/a> has announced when and where the 2012 convention is going to be.&nbsp; It&#8217;s in a completely different place than last year&#8211; which is a good thing, since last year&#8217;s hotel can best be described as functionally spartan, and that&#8217;s buttering it up&#8211; and a few months later.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know why that is, but there you go.&nbsp; For those who are seeking representation and can spare the time and money to go, it&#8217;s worth your while.&nbsp; Even though I didn&#8217;t meet my agent through DFWCon (or any other convention), I still found going to be a highly valuable experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/armadillocon.org\/\">ArmadilloCon<\/a> is coming up in a month.&nbsp; I am quite excited and nervous for this one&#8211; it&#8217;s my first time on the other side of the table.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t have a problem with public speaking (I was at one time an actor, after all), but I will be quite aware that on any given panel that I may be on, pretty much everyone else on that panel will be someone cooler than me.&nbsp; I can easily come to terms with that.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mrmaresca.com\/2011\/06\/writing-minor-characters-story-of.html\">I&#8217;m an excellent spear-carrier,<\/a> after all.&nbsp; I also just read <a href=\"http:\/\/msagara.livejournal.com\/66264.html\">some excellent advice<\/a> on how to behave when on a panel.&nbsp; I wasn&#8217;t going to be in much danger of shameless self-promotion, but it&#8217;s good to have that extra reminder now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the DFWCon has announced when and where the 2012 convention is going to be.&nbsp; It&#8217;s in a completely different place than last year&#8211; which is a good thing, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,8,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armadillocon","category-conventions","category-dfwcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}