Memorial Day Weekend is just around the corner, and we all know what that means—Balticon! Celebrate the real start of summer with a couple thousand of your favorite friends at Baltimore’s Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. Oh yeah, I’ll be there, too, with a wonderful selection of panels. Check them out.

Saturday

Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading

1 PM
Kent Meeting Room (Sixth Floor)
Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Jeanne Adams, J.L. Gribble, Lisa Hawkridge, A.L. Kaplan, Gail Z. Martin, Cara McKinnon, Karen Wester Newton (w/a Carmen Webster Buxton), Jennifer Povey, Ken Schrader, D.H. Timpko, Jean Marie Ward (Moderator), Joan Wendland.

Reading with Ruthanna Emrys, Michael M. Jones, Jean Marie Ward

9 PM
St. George Meeting Room (Sixth Floor)

Sunday

Writing the Spectrum of Feminine Strength

1 PM
Guilford Meeting Room (Sixth Floor)
Jamaila Brinkley, Valerie J. Mikles (Moderator), Michelle Sonnier, Jean Marie Ward

20 Years Later: Cowboy Bebop

5 PM
Gibson Meeting Room (Sixth Floor)
Bugsy Bryant (Moderator), Christiana Ellis, Jean Marie Ward

Useful Rabbit Holes for Writers—and How to Climb out of Them

6 PM
Homeland Meeting Room (Fifth Floor)
Jim Beall, Marilyn “Mattie” Brahen, Mildred Cady (Moderator), Andy Love, Jean Marie Ward

Making Fantasy Feel Real

8 PM
Room 8006
Brenda Clough, Leah Cypess, Lisa Hawkridge, Jean Marie Ward

Monday

Writing for Themed Anthologies

Noon
Room 7029
T. Eric Bakutis, Neil Clarke, Alex Shvartsman (Moderator), Jean Marie Ward

Writing Intriguing Characters

2 PM
Mount Washington Meeting Room (Fifth Floor)
Martin Berman-Gorvine (Moderator), Michelle Sonnier, D.L. Wainright, Jean Marie Ward, Joy Ward

If you want to learn more, check out the Balticon website and their online schedule. You know it’s going to be fun!