{"id":2570,"date":"2017-06-17T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2017-06-17T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T18:21:42","slug":"ala-and-clarion-west-write-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/ala-and-clarion-west-write-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA and Clarion West Write-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of bits of news, both of which developed like, <em>boom<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>I will be attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.alaannual.org\/\">American Library Association convention at McCormick Place, Chicago<\/a>, on Saturday 24 June. I will be at the SFWA Table (Booth 1753) from 1-3pm as Kristine Smith. I will also be making the switch to Alex Gordon and giving away copies of GIDEON, but that time hasn&#8217;t been confirmed yet, so check back if you&#8217;re interested. In any case, stop by&#8211;I&#8217;ll be happy to sign books, programs, etc. I&#8217;ve never attended an ALA before, so I am also looking forward to visiting the other exhibits and seeing all there is to see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/\">Clarion West Write-a-thon<\/a> for the first time. I daresay most everyone who reads or writes speculative fiction\u00a0knows of the\u00a0Clarion Writers Workshops. I first heard of them in the 70s, when I came upon the Clarion student anthologies in the grown-up section of the library. I never attended, but so many friends have. It&#8217;s an institution, and like many such endeavors, it needs financial support. The Write-a-thon provides that via sponsorship of participating writers. The list of writers is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/groups\/write-a-thon-2017\/\">here<\/a>. Chose your writer, and you will be taken to the donation page. You don&#8217;t have to register in order to donate.<\/p>\n<p>My page is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/members\/ksmithsf\/\">here<\/a>, in case you would, you know, like to sponsor me. The Write-a-thon begins tomorrow&#8211;<em>ack!<\/em>&#8211;and runs until 28 July.\u00a0I will be updating the page on a regular basis with snippets of works-in-progress, along with a surprise or two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of bits of news, both of which developed like, boom: I will be attending the American Library Association convention at McCormick Place, Chicago, on Saturday 24 June. I will be at the SFWA Table (Booth 1753) from 1-3pm as Kristine Smith. I will also be making the switch to Alex Gordon and giving <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/ala-and-clarion-west-write-a-thon\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,67],"tags":[127,128,129,126],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-writing","tag-ala","tag-appearances","tag-sfwa","tag-write-a-thon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}