Name: The Red Line Test
Start: 2024-11-09T14:00:00-0600
End: 2024-11-09T15:00:00-0600

"Mankind will reach maturity on the day it learns to value diversity—of life and ideas. To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst thing that could happen is for all of us to look and think and act alike." Gene Roddenberry

Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

Camden

Will readers keep reading after your first page? If not, why?

Moderators

Bill Fawcett

Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates

Speakers

Steven Silver

Steven H Silver is a twenty-time Hugo Award nominee and was the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for 8 years. He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB Books. He began publishing short fiction in 2008, his most recently published story is "Initial Engagement... Read More →

Rick Waterson

Donna J W Munro

Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter... Read More →

Richard Chwedyk

Writer, Teacher

Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops... Read More →