After years of poking and prodding, the beloved, Fiona Patton, has finally got herself onto live journal.   Fiona, with DAW like me and seanan_mcguire and jimhines, is the author of the Brainian series -- The Stone Prince, The Painter Knight, The Granite Shield, and The Golden Sword -- as well as The Warriors of Estavia -- The Silver Lake, The Golden Tower, and The Shining City.    Her books all have kickass, intricate worldbuilding, political intrigue, seers, gods, and big guys with swords.  There's also a lot of short stories out there -- now lj's taken care of, I'll try and convince her to finally put together a complete bibliography.

She's fionapatton  and has posted this morning.  (And no, I didn't need to stand over her with my arms crossed.  I may have anyway but I didn't need to.  Probably didn't need to...)  She's still a bit skittish about this, so if you could wander by and friend her, that'd go a long way toward easing the process.  And it occurs to me, I'd better head over and do that myself.  (Shhh.  We're not going to tell her I forgot to do that last night when I set up her account.)

As I have mentioned before, I will not be going to Anticipation (the 2009 Montreal Worldcon) next weekend.  The beloved, Fiona Patton, and I mostly trade off Worldcons so one of us is home with the animals.  This means, as some of you have undoubtedly surmised by now, that Fiona is attending this year.

So, if you're going to be there, you should look her up.   Since her signing is the second thing she's doing on Saturday at 17:00 which doesn't give her much oppportunity to mention it, I'm mentioning it here. 

To make it easier for you, this is her schedual:


When: Fri 15:30
> Location:  P-522B
> Title:  Preparing to Write a Series
> Session ID:  755
> All Participants:  Fiona Patton, Joe Haldeman, Joshua Palmatier, Laura
> Anne Gilman, M. D. Benoit, Mindy Klasky, George R. R. Martin
> Moderator:  Joe Haldeman
> Description:  How does a writer plan to write a series? Or is it
> unplanned until you sign the contract? Writers discuss how they set up
> and wrote novels that are part of a "series."


> When: Sat 17:00
> Location:  P-Autographs
> Title:  Fiona Patton Signing
> Session ID:  1452
> All Participants:  Fiona Patton
> Moderator:  <Not Available>
> Description:  Fiona Patton Signing


> When: Sun 11:00
> Location:  P-516E
> Title:  Writing for Teens
> Session ID:  861
> All Participants:  Anne Harris, Ben Jeapes, Fiona Patton, Eoin Colfer
> Moderator:  Ben Jeapes
> Description:  How is writing for YA/teens different? Do you just leave
> out the sex and long exposition, or is there more to it?


> When: Sun 14:00
> Location:  P-513A
> Title:  Gateway Drugs
> Session ID:  597
> All Participants:  Fiona Patton, Regina M. Franchi, LeAmber Kinsley,
> James Bacon
> Moderator:  Fiona Patton
> Description:  Paranormal romance, Harry Potter, and movie tie-ins, all
> are often the first SF and fantasy books that readers encounter. We
> often sneer at them, but they really do seem to provide a new crop of
> readers. Why? What do they change about the expectations of genre?


> When: Sun 17:00
> Location:  P-518A
> Title:  Landscape in Fantasy
> Session ID:  573
> All Participants:  Fiona Patton, Greer Gilman, Karin Lowachee, Nalo
> Hopkinson
> Moderator:  Greer Gilman
> Description:  If you're a fantasy writer, how much does the landscape
> you're surrounded by when you write feed into your work? In the case
> of the recent boom in Canadian-written fantasy sagas, can one see the
> Canadian landscape in the worlds they describe?


> When: Sun 19:00
> Location:  P-522A
> Title:  Author Reading
> Session ID:  222
> All Participants:  Fiona Patton, John A. Pitts
> Moderator:  <Not Available>
> Description:  Fiona Patton; John A Pitts.
> Duration:  1:00 hrs:min