Life, The Universe, & Everything is Utah’s annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy writing symposium. I’ve attended for five or six years in a row now. I’m one of the special guests, and will be on a ton of panels. If you are an aspiring writer, this is probably the best nuts and bolts writing conference I know of. It isn’t a fan con, so there isn’t going to be a bunch of folks in costumes and that sort of thing. This is pretty much writers and publishing business/craft in a three day firehouse of information. So I really do recommend it.
Now for me, it is an excuse to hang out with friends and I get to sneak in a Warmachine game against Howard Tayler.
http://ltue.net/Schedule.html
I am on the following panels:
Thursday:
Tricks to Writing First Person PoV Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 9am
Daniel Friend, Rachel Ann Nunes, Clint Johnson, Robert J Defendi, Larry Correia
What is “Punk” Literature and Its Many Genres? Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 1pm
Aneeka Richins, Paul Genesse, David Butler, Steve Diamond, Larry Correia
And then Friday gets a little crazy:
Contracts Friday, February 15, 2013 at 10am
Christopher Loke, Brett Peterson, Larry Correia, Michaelbrent Collings, David Farland, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury (M)
Gun Use in Fiction Friday, February 15, 2013 at Noon
Howard Tayler, Zachary Hill, Julie Frost, Mike Kupari, Larry Correia
Writing Action Friday, February 15, 2013 at 1pm
Larry Correia
Writing Humor that Goes Beyond Slapstick and Parody Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2pm
Berin Stephens, Craig Nybo, Eric James Stone, Platte F. Clark, Robert J Defendi (M), Larry Correia
Real World Collaboration Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3pm
Valerie Mechling, Samuel Stubbs, Mike Kupari, Steve Diamond, Larry Correia
Writing Modern Fantasy Friday, February 15, 2013 at 5pm
Luisa M. Perkins, Julie Frost, Michael Young, Mette Ivie Harrison, Larry Correia, Megan Whalen Turner
And then Saturday slows back down:
Worldbuilding 101 Where do You Even Start? Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 9am
James A. Owen, Larry Correia, Robert J Defendi, Dan Willis, Howard Tayler, Jaleta Clegg
Oh to live nearby and be able to attend!!! I wish I could go!
See you there, dude!
I will see you both there!
I’m on the Gun Use and Modern Fantasy panels with Larry. My life is complete.
I have a reading too, and I’m kind of flailing trying to decide what I’m going to read.
so a firehouse of information is more or less than a firehose of information?
It’s much, much more. A firehouse is a collection of many fire hoses, along with trained wielders thereof. It also contains trucks for transportation and distribution of water from said firehoses.
Kind of like Larry’s books aren’t just awesome, they’re containers of multi-packs of awesomeness. Think bombers loaded with clusterbombs where each individual submunition is a pack of awesomeness.
Man I wish I would be able to make this!
Larry,
I notice that you seem to be all alone doing Writing Action. Having read your books, that seems appropriate.
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Uh, yeah, probably gonna need to scratch me off of the list. I’m afraid I’m not going to make it this year.
Larry,
Telling us about these things works better if you tell us far enough in advance we can plan to go.
Sometime i should tell the funny story about me going to a writing guns panel at Dragon Con…
LTUE is Valentine’s weekend in Orem/Provo every year. CONduit, where Larry is the GoH this year, is Memorial Day weekend in SLC.
You’re welcome. 🙂
lLong drive from HelLA.