{"id":304,"date":"2009-10-14T05:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-10-14T05:29:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T09:29:57","slug":"capclave-this-weekend-at-washington-dcrockville-hilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Capclave this weekend at Washington DC\/Rockville Hilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capclave.org\/capclave09\/\"><strong>Capclave<\/strong><\/a> is a terrific little con I&#8217;ve been going to for the last few years.\u00c2\u00a0 The emphasis is on reading.\u00c2\u00a0 The Guest of Honor this year is Harry Turtledove.\u00c2\u00a0 Also in attendance will be James Morrow and Michael Swanwick to name just a few.\u00c2\u00a0 The convention hotel is right on the red line, so it couldn&#8217;t be easier to get to from anywhere in the DC area.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a great mix of panels and readings, and aspiring writers take note, several fiction editors in attendance.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be around most of the time.<br \/>\nMy scheduled activities:<\/p>\n<p>Friday 7 pm <strong>Modern Classics<\/strong><font size=\"-1\">\u00c2\u00a0 (<\/font><font size=\"-1\">Lenny Bailes (m), Dennis Danvers, Doug Fratz, Peter Heck, George H. Scithers) <\/font><font size=\"-1\">What makes a book a classic? Everyone in SF still reads Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers? What other recent books, since the 80s, do you think will someday be held up with these as a classic? why would you say this is a classic?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 1 pm <strong>Book Signing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 8 pm <strong>The Villain <\/strong><font size=\"-1\">(<\/font><font size=\"-1\">Diane Arrelle (m), Dennis Danvers, C. Alan Loewen, James Morrow, Michael Swanwick<\/font><font size=\"-1\">) Is he an evil s.o.b. or just misguided?\u00c2\u00a0 How do you write your antagonists?\u00c2\u00a0 Can anyone be all bad? Would a benevolent Hitler be believable?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 10 pm <strong>Books with Multiple Personality Disorder<\/strong> (<font size=\"-1\">Larry Hodges (m), Mattie Brahen, Dennis Danvers, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, Michael Swanwick<\/font>) <font size=\"-1\">How many characters, how many different points of view can you fit in a novel and make it work? What do you do to make the voices different? \u00c2\u00a0How much repetition of the same scene from different POVs? How do you keep the reader from being frustrated when you change from one to the other? <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 11 am <strong>Reading<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Please come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capclave is a terrific little con I&#8217;ve been going to for the last few years.\u00c2\u00a0 The emphasis is on reading.\u00c2\u00a0 The Guest of Honor this year is Harry Turtledove.\u00c2\u00a0 Also in attendance will be James Morrow and Michael Swanwick to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}