Genre, Gender, and GenreCon
So, after GenreCon, the inimitable Kat of BookThingo posted this online: Conference programmers note: This is what an all-women writers’ panel looks like! #aww2015 #GCoz A photo posted by Kat (@bookthingo) on Oct 31, 2015 at 11:37pm PDT The image is from the final plenary of GenreCon the weekend, when we had all seven of our special guests on-stage. It’s a sessions where a question from the audience generated a particularly frank discussion of gender, genre, and the impact of both on a writing career (particularly in SF). That conversation was cut short, largely because we were running out of time. I hated doing it, but it had to be done due to the constraints of our agreement with the venue, and I apologise to all the people who had follow-up questions they didn’t get to ask. But it has me brooding on the topic a bit. And I tend to talk about the things I brood about here. Now, at
