This is the base script of the keynote I gave at the Sirens 2018 conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado. It’s missing my FUNNY AND GENIUS asides, but this gives you the core message. It seemed to make people happy! Go forth, friends! NOTE: I opened with an extemporaneous anecdote about my Spanish book tour, and how […]
I was graciously invited by the Library Information Technology Association (LITA) to give the LITA President’s Talk on June 25th. The talk was recorded and will be shared publicly in the next few weeks. Until then, here is the full text of the talk (minus my asides, of course). Thank you so much to LITA President
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I want to talk a little about kindness. We like to think that geeks are kind, that geeks understand what it is to be outsiders, and so we open up our circles and are super inviting to everyone. But what happens more often is that once we find our groups, we jealously defend them to
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It’s going to be the drunkest con of the year! I was put on a few panels at Worldcon, which I admit still surprises me. Compared to my nine or twenty panels at Gencon, this will be a fairly relaxing affair as long as nobody crashes into their own face during the Writing Diverse Characters