Wiscon Prep
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kate_schaeferAt Wiscon this year, I'm going to be available for schmoozing and hanging out. I'm not on any formal programming at all, which leaves me free to go to your program item and heckle, or to intend to go to your program item but forget and go to something else altogether.
I do have several personal agendas to pursue at Wiscon:
1) I'm finally starting that clothing business I've talked about for years. I'm aiming for a serious launch in the fall, for the winter party season. I'll have a handful of prototype velvet evening wraps with me at Wiscon, and I'll be happy to show them and sell them to you in my room. They will be priced from $125-175, and most of them should fit most of you. A few of them are too long for me, but would be perfect for a taller person, and some of the the petite ones might be too short for a taller person. These resemble the festive garment Ursula modeled (and eventually bought) at Potlatch.
2) I had volunteered for a program item on fundraising for small non-profits. It was in the schedule initially, but got cut when there were too many things for the time available. I had intended to go ahead and prepare my full presentation with handouts anyway, on the theory that I could schedule lunch and drinks breaks with anyone who wanted to talk about fundraising; this was the hubris of the person who expects time to be more elastic than it actually is. I have the presentation about half-written at this point, but sewing takes priority. Nevertheless, I'll be happy to talk about fundraising with anyone who is interested. My background in fundraising is sixteen years of volunteer work with Clarion West, a lot of reading, an online grantwriting class, and a year of seminars put on by the Northwest Development Officers Association.
3) Applied fundraising, part one: I'll have flyers for the Clarion West Write-a-thon with me. If you attended Clarion West or taught at it or just feel reasonably friendly toward the workshop and the writers associated with it, I'll probably ask you if you want to write like a maniac this summer. If you sign up for the Write-a-thon at Wiscon, I will definitely sponsor you. If you're not up for writing this summer, I'll probably ask you to sponsor one of the maniacs. Eileen Gunn, Michael Swanwick, Paul Park, Louise Marley, Cat Rambo, and Charlie Allery are all writing in the Write-a-thon this summer. Michael Swanwick probably finished one of the stories he's writing for it while I wrote this paragraph, and the Write-a-thon hasn't even started yet. As I write this, the Write-a-thon web page isn't up yet, but it will be up right after Wiscon.
4) Applied fundraising, part two: I'll have limited numbers of pristine Freddie Baer T-shirts from Potlatch 13 and Potlatch 15 for sale. $15 per shirt, proceeds to Clarion West.
5) I'll have flyers for Potlatch 17, which will take place in Seattle over Leap Day weekend in 2008 and which will be the kickoff event for the Clarion West 25th Anniversary Celebration. If you can't find a flyer on the freebie table, I'll be happy to hand you one.
6) If you went to Clarion West and you have a reading scheduled, remind me. I really want to go to your reading; I've enjoyed every one I've been to at Wiscon, and I love the themed approach pioneered by the class of 2004. If your reading is too late at night (which includes too early in the morning), I may not make it, but I do want to be there. The Wiscon readings have a great community feel to me; we want to emulate that community approach in the readings track at Potlatch in 2008.
I do have several personal agendas to pursue at Wiscon:
1) I'm finally starting that clothing business I've talked about for years. I'm aiming for a serious launch in the fall, for the winter party season. I'll have a handful of prototype velvet evening wraps with me at Wiscon, and I'll be happy to show them and sell them to you in my room. They will be priced from $125-175, and most of them should fit most of you. A few of them are too long for me, but would be perfect for a taller person, and some of the the petite ones might be too short for a taller person. These resemble the festive garment Ursula modeled (and eventually bought) at Potlatch.
2) I had volunteered for a program item on fundraising for small non-profits. It was in the schedule initially, but got cut when there were too many things for the time available. I had intended to go ahead and prepare my full presentation with handouts anyway, on the theory that I could schedule lunch and drinks breaks with anyone who wanted to talk about fundraising; this was the hubris of the person who expects time to be more elastic than it actually is. I have the presentation about half-written at this point, but sewing takes priority. Nevertheless, I'll be happy to talk about fundraising with anyone who is interested. My background in fundraising is sixteen years of volunteer work with Clarion West, a lot of reading, an online grantwriting class, and a year of seminars put on by the Northwest Development Officers Association.
3) Applied fundraising, part one: I'll have flyers for the Clarion West Write-a-thon with me. If you attended Clarion West or taught at it or just feel reasonably friendly toward the workshop and the writers associated with it, I'll probably ask you if you want to write like a maniac this summer. If you sign up for the Write-a-thon at Wiscon, I will definitely sponsor you. If you're not up for writing this summer, I'll probably ask you to sponsor one of the maniacs. Eileen Gunn, Michael Swanwick, Paul Park, Louise Marley, Cat Rambo, and Charlie Allery are all writing in the Write-a-thon this summer. Michael Swanwick probably finished one of the stories he's writing for it while I wrote this paragraph, and the Write-a-thon hasn't even started yet. As I write this, the Write-a-thon web page isn't up yet, but it will be up right after Wiscon.
4) Applied fundraising, part two: I'll have limited numbers of pristine Freddie Baer T-shirts from Potlatch 13 and Potlatch 15 for sale. $15 per shirt, proceeds to Clarion West.
5) I'll have flyers for Potlatch 17, which will take place in Seattle over Leap Day weekend in 2008 and which will be the kickoff event for the Clarion West 25th Anniversary Celebration. If you can't find a flyer on the freebie table, I'll be happy to hand you one.
6) If you went to Clarion West and you have a reading scheduled, remind me. I really want to go to your reading; I've enjoyed every one I've been to at Wiscon, and I love the themed approach pioneered by the class of 2004. If your reading is too late at night (which includes too early in the morning), I may not make it, but I do want to be there. The Wiscon readings have a great community feel to me; we want to emulate that community approach in the readings track at Potlatch in 2008.
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Date: 2007-05-22 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-05-23 03:01 am (UTC)Okay, the Glorifying Terrorism reading is one I can probably attend, and I won't fall asleep during it, because I won't be adjusted from my normal time zone yet.
Thanks, Karen.
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Date: 2007-05-23 06:10 pm (UTC)Gosh, I would be honored! Except then people would ask me about gorgeous velvet evening wraps and I would be totally unable to help them.
(although Wiscon is one place where we're unlikely to end up with each other's badges, really)
Actually, they have tried. Once I didn't realize until I was back in my room and when emptying it out found a dessert ticket that I hadn't ordered. It's that alphabet thing, you know.
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Date: 2007-05-22 11:30 pm (UTC)I look forward to drooling on...er, I mean over the evening wraps.
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Date: 2007-05-23 03:13 am (UTC)Just about. The Voices from the West reading at 10:15 has CW alumni Susan Palwick (1985) and Louise Marley (1993), CW scholarship benefactor Alma Alexander, and Caroline Stevermer, who doesn't have a CW connection that I know of.
At the very same time, there will be a book launch party for Ellen Klages, and I have to go to that. I have to hear you read and drink your mead, too.
Damn. Wiscon: always too much fun, all at the same time.
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Date: 2007-05-23 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 04:38 am (UTC)(gets suspicious) Are there going to be more really unpleasant sex scenes in these stories? Taber and Smith have extremely diseased imaginations, you know. Maybe I'll sit in the back row this time instead of the front row, so I won't be quite so conspicuous.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:30 pm (UTC)Who knows? This year all the stories are set in the same restaurant ... and that's it. Everything else is wide open. *g* Of course, knowing Deb and Debbie, I think you can at least expect really unpleasant scenes, if not sex. I, on the other hand, have cats. :-)
Looking forward to seeing you.
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Date: 2007-05-23 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 05:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I look forward to seeing you, too. It sounds like you've been making big progress on your personal goals recently.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:14 pm (UTC)I also want to see Writeathon flyers.
Also, you!
MKK
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Date: 2007-05-23 10:39 pm (UTC)