Joelle Presby's MarsCon Schedule
January 16-18, 2015

FRIDAY, January 16

7-8 pm  Baen Traveling Road Show                                               
Room: Jefferson Davis 1
Jim Minz, David B. Coe, David Weber, Joelle Presby, Steve White
 
10-11 pm  Honor Bound: Working with David Weber             
Room: General Longstreet’s
David Weber, Jim Minz, Joelle Presby, Christopher Weuve (moderator)
 

SATURDAY, January 17

11 am-Noon  Starships 101                      
Room: Jefferson Davis 1
Andy Presby, Joelle Presby
 
3-4 pm  Alchemy: When Art Turns into Business                                  
Room: General Hooker’s
Mikey Mason, Joelle Presby (moderator), Sharon Rice Weber
 
5-6 pm  25 Years of the Writing Process…and Beyond: The Writer’s Work in the Past, Present, and Future
Room: Jefferson Davis 2
James Maxey, Will McIntosh, D.C. McLaughlin, Jim Minz (moderator), Joelle Presby
 

SUNDAY, January 18

1-2 pm  Money Makes the Worlds Go Around: Technology and Economics             
Room: Stuart’s Redoubt
Jim Beall, James Maxey, Will McIntosh, Andy Presby (moderator), Joelle Presby, Christopher Weuve

Vacation is over.

Well, that was quick. I now have Things To Do, and there is Stuff - mass quantities of stuff - to get accomplished.* What are these things and stuffs you might ask? Well, mumble mumble mumble and it is very important, I say!

Don’t tell anyone, but my workload is actually quite glorious. Today I am going to write, because I want to. And, and! Some of the stuff I write I might get paid for. This causes a Glorious Positive Feedback Loop in which I have time so I can write and sometimes people buy it so I have money so I have time and so I can write!**

Everyone continue on with your regularly scheduled Enjoyment of Life now. I’m having a grand time playing with social media, so fully expect to see rationalizations about how this can be considered Work in some convoluted, stretched out definition of word-of-mouth marketing for not yet finished manuscripts.***

-Joelle


*Okay, for a normal human being, I don't actually have much Stuff To Do at all. But I’m doing more than yesterday, so it feels like a ginormous to do list.

**Observant readers will note that the Glorious Positive Feedback Loop does not in this current iteration consist of sufficient complexity to include an editing phase. My Inner Editor mourns with you and laments the existence of the footnoted sentence above as Exhibit One.^

***I’m going to have to work on that one. Even I don’t believe me. Yet.


^One’s Inner Editor has heard of the Legendary Being known as the Inner Spellchecker, but a certain Joelle Presby has never been graced with that angelic power. Microsoft Spellcheck is the first step in a much longed for cyborg brain augmentation.

I love New Year's Day.

When I manage to get up before noon, the whole world is peaceful and quiet. There are delicious things to nibble on for my breakfast, and the whole year is rolled out before me ready for me to make my mark on it.

I generally spend the day planning my schemes within schemes for how I’m going to achieve elaborate goals and reshape the world. (It has been pointed out to me that this action permanently blacklists me from the Procrastinator’s Club without gaining me admission into the Guild of Effective Goal-setters, but I’m okay with that.) I like to have plans for the sake of plans. I daydream about what I want today. Later in the week and month and year I’ll be on the lookout for the tiny bitsy things within my control that can baby step me towards the wilder dreams.

Happy New Year to you! If you are scheming today, scheme big.