Hi everyone!  Last couple weeks have been a bit busy for me—combination of editing Book 3 and hosting family from out of town—but some of those responsibilities have eased and I have news about San Diego Comic Con!  The previously-seekret details are now no longer quite so seekret.  Here’s my schedule!

Saturday, July 20 10:00am – 11:00am
Room 7AB

Urban Fantasy: Myth and Magic in the City
Paris, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Tucson, and cities of our own imagination come to life when tales of myth and magic are blended with the urban landscape. These stories are collectively known as Urban Fantasy, and many of today’s popular authors are adding their otherworldly ingredients to the melting pots of modern (and not-so-modern) society. Authors Jim Butcher (Cold Days), Max Gladstone (Three Parts Dead), Kevin Hearne (The Iron Druid Chronicles), Richard Kadrey (Kill City Blues), Marlene Perez (Strange Fates), Kevin J. Anderson (Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.), and Liesel Schwarz (A Conspiracy of Alchemists) discuss the art of writing Urban Fantasy with Diana Gill of Harper Voyager US.

This looks set to be an amazing panel.  I was on a panel with Richard Kadrey at New York Comic Con last year, which was a ton of fun; drop by and listen for the rock!  The other authors need no introduction, really.  Genre giants here.  I’ll just try not to embarrass myself.  And, well.  If Thirteen-Year-Old-Max is still wondering when he’ll become a Real Writer[tm], being on a panel with Kevin J Frikkin Anderson is a nice clue.  I may, may, have spent an embarrassing amount of my pizza-cook moneys on Star Wars novels as a kid.

Urban fantasy is an interesting term for the Craft Sequence—it fits in some ways, doesn’t in others.  Maybe it’ll come up at the panel.  If not, I should write something about that here!

After, we’ll have:

11:30 – 12:30am Signing to follow in the autographing area, Table AA09