{"id":1941,"date":"2015-04-21T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2015-04-21T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:16:41","slug":"con-of-the-ravens-this-weekend-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/con-of-the-ravens-this-weekend-in-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Con of the Ravens &#8230; This Weekend in Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;ll be at the RavenCon science fiction and fantasy convention up in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ravencon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/splash.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravencon.com\/\">RavenCon<\/a> is always a lot of fun, and I appreciate them inviting me back this year. Lots of my friends will be there, and I will be busy, as usual:<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 pm, Open Filking<\/li>\n<li>6 pm, Panel: Critiquing, The Right Way &#8212; <em>I&#8217;m moderating this panel<\/em><\/li>\n<li>7 pm, Opening Ceremony<\/li>\n<li>8 pm, Workshop w\/ Paula Jordan: After the First Draft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 am, Panel: How To (Not) Ruin Your Writing Career &#8212; <em>I&#8217;m moderating this one, too<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Noon, Reading &#8212; <em>and singing, there will be singing<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4 pm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Road Show<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 am, Panel: Riding the National Security Coattails &#8212; <em>Moderating again<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Noon, Panel: Ten Books Representing 20th Century SF<\/li>\n<li>2 pm, Signing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, I will have copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/grayrinehart\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a> as well as &#8220;Another Romulan Ale&#8221; and &#8220;Tauntauns to Glory&#8221; bumper stickers. 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Lots of my friends will be there, and I will be busy, as usual: Friday: 4 pm, Open Filking \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/con-of-the-ravens-this-weekend-in-richmond\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,164,277,387],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-filk","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}