{"id":2423,"date":"2017-02-17T09:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2017-02-17T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:05:09","slug":"its-no-mystery-but-it-will-be-mysticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/its-no-mystery-but-it-will-be-mysticon\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s No Mystery, But It Will Be MystiCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend (24-6 February) I&#8217;ll be in Roanoke, Virginia, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysticon-va.com\/\">MystiCon<\/a> science fiction and fantasy convention. This year one of our most highly-esteemed authors, David Weber, is the Literary Guest of Honor!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mysticon-va.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MystiCon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at the convention, here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll find me:<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 p.m. in Dogwood 1 &#8212; &#8220;Where No TV Show Has Gone Before,&#8221; a panel\u00a0that has something to do with, as one <em>Big Bang Theory<\/em> character has it, some &#8220;Star War Trek thing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>10 p.m. in Dogwood 1 &#8212; &#8220;The Eye of Argon,&#8221; a dramatic presentation of an infamous fantasy story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 a.m. in the Main Hallway &#8212; signing (and selling!) copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/distorted-vision\">Distorted Vision<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/truths-and-lies-and-make-believe\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a>, and possibly other things<\/li>\n<li>11 a.m. in Room 533 &#8212; &#8220;Face to Face Slushpile,&#8221; a workshop that folks liked so much last time that they put it back on the schedule again &#8230; we&#8217;ll see if I make anyone cry this year<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m. in Ballroom C &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Road Show, where we show folks what&#8217;s coming out in the near future and give away some free books!<\/li>\n<li>7 p.m. in Room 533 &#8212; reading something, and maybe singing &#8230; who knows?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 a.m. in the Vista Room &#8212; Non-Denominational Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MystiCon is a nice little convention, and always a lot of fun &#8212; hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" 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This year one of our most highly-esteemed authors, David Weber, is the Literary Guest of Honor! If you&#8217;re at the convention, here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll find me: Friday: 5 p.m. in Dogwood 1 &#8212; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/its-no-mystery-but-it-will-be-mysticon\/\"> 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":[57,164,386],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}