Author: Sarah A. Hoyt

If you happen to be in the area, please come say "hi!".

Sci-Fi/Fantasy – The Perception	Sarah Hoyt Daniel Hogan Jeff DeLuzio Sarah Monette	5/1/2009 18:00	0h50	Poolside 1
What is the general perception of genre writing? Pros and cons of genre writing vs. traditional fiction.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	David Crampton Mary Robinette Kowal Sarah Hoyt Dan Hoyt Elizabeth Bear Cherie Priest Jeff DeLuzio Sarah Monette	5/2/2009 13:00	0h50	Poolside 1
Character Development. Bringing your imaginary friends to life. Discussion of what makes a character live on the page. Heroes, villains, supporters. Different methods and ways of making your characters real to your audience.

To See a Universe in a Grain of Sand	Sarah Hoyt Dan Hoyt Elizabeth Bear Daniel Hogan Sarah Monette Sarah Zettel	5/2/2009 15:00	0h50	Columbia
Worldbuilding. How to create your universe.

Lie to Me!	John Scalzi Mary Robinette Kowal Sarah Hoyt Elizabeth Bear	5/2/2009 19:00	0h50	Poolside 1
Authors telling lies….what will happen next?! (PS – the audience gets to lie too!)

Liar Liars!	Catherynne M. Valente Sarah Hoyt Brian Briggs Cherie Priest	5/2/2009 8:00	0h50	Poolside 1
Discussing lying in fiction, unreliable narrators, fake memoirs and histories, authority in prose. Books like The Things They Carried that play with the idea of the author as a liar to great effect.

Dancing with Wolves – And Vamps!	Sarah Hoyt Dan Hoyt Elizabeth Bear	5/3/2009 10:00	0h50	Poolside 1
Fantasy allows for the ultimate "bad boy" romances. Your lover ripping your heart out can be literal if he’s a vampire. Such stories can be fun, others horrifying. What makes a good love story, what’s just plain disturbing and why?

Finding Your Voice	Mary Robinette Kowal Sarah Hoyt Dan Hoyt Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette	5/3/2009 11:00	0h50	Poolside 1
1st Person vs 3rd Person writing. Discussion of pros and cons of different voices in writing. Benefits of the "God" point of view for an author and a reader. Benefits of the main character as narrator for the author and reader. Limitations of both.

Book Signing	Catherynne M. Valente John Scalzi Jim C. Hines Wil Wheaton Sarah Hoyt Dan Hoyt Elizabeth Bear Daniel Hogan Brian Briggs	5/3/2009 9:00	0h50	Ballrooms 7/8
Come meet some of our great authors and get your book signed. There may or may not even be readings done by some of them – how well can you beg?

Writer’s Workshop Special	Sarah Hoyt	May 2, 2009 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm	2h	Boardroom
A special treat for participants. Ms. Hoyt will be doing some writing exercises and discussing the craft with you.

I didn’t think my voice was yet QUITE up to a full short story, so this is me reading the beginning of Draw One In The Dark.  I’ll do the opening of the other novels too, over the next few weeks, and eventually post it on my site.  For now, after much bugging of my friend Kate Paulk, (and Rob Hampson, and Francis Turner) it’s hosted here:

http://www.sff.net/people/katepaulk/xtra/dw_a0045.mp3

So excited! promotional t-shirts for DST here. Attached picture modeled by younger boy who is wearing it back to school. One of them is being donated to the Penguin Con auction, others going to members of my writers’ group — you know who you are. About ten left. I MUST think of contests so you guys can win them. They look terrific! Superb art by Alan Pollack!

Writing madly on the final phase of an historical novel called "No Other Wish But His" — a fictionalized version of the life of Katherine Howard which one of my writers’ group members has nicknamed Kay Ho. (G)

A few updates:  As you can tell I have indeed survived Luna con.  For those who heard me there, my voice is now back — which means podcast tomorrow.  (Yay, right?)

I’m now on face book under Sarah A. Hoyt.  I’m also twittering as sarahahoyt, if you feel a burning desire to know what I had for breakfast or — more likley — when the next book is coming out.

And speaking of next books, two quick updates and covers.

My book Dipped Stripped And Dead, under the pen name Elise Hyatt has a cover and a release date.  It’s coming out in October 09 and this is the cover:  It’s the fluffiest book I’ve ever written, bar none, but it was a lot of fun.  Samples aren’t up, yet, but I’ll try to get them up tonight and I’ll let you know as soon as they go up.

Also, while at Luna con I found out I had a cover for my book Darkship Thieves, which is coming out January next year.  Is this a cool cover or what?

    Sample pages — unedited and from a version back — here:

http://darkship.sarahahoyt.com/

And now I shall return to my interrupted Kay Ho…. ;)

Last night, at about 2 am I found myself considering asking Dan to take me to emergency.  I couldn’t breathe and I’m fairly sure your bronchi aren’t something you should be able to listen to like a wind orchestra.  Every minute it seemed like my wind pipe was more constricted and I was choking to death.  And then I realized that I when we asked for the feather bedding to be removed from the room, they hadn’t thought the coverlets on the bed needed to be removed.  Once they were removed, I was able to breathe almost instantly, and I’m feeling much better today than yesterday.  so those of you who saw me gasping and looking like I was dying yesterday — it’s not the black plague, it’s my old friend an allergy to feathers.

This morning I have discovered that a writer is a perfect mechanism for the distilling of caffeine from coffee — needing only frequent trips to the bathroom.

After staying up ridiculous late, hanging out with guests of honor Gordon and Ilona Andrews, coffee and coke are sort of the stuff of life.

After participating in a sedate panel on dragons, where I believe I encouraged the audience to throw fruit at us — I was VERY sleepy  and my voice hasn’t recovered from the horrible night — I am now sitting at a panel with the guests of honor, my son Robert Hoyt and virtual guest Mike Stackpole, participating through second life, about urban fantasy.

A question was thrown to me and I believe I was thoroughly inane in my answer, as I was trying to figure out how much I could say before my voice died altogether.

More to come….

Here I am at lovely Opus Fest in Denver, CO. The weather is nice and the fans are nice and con organizers are possibly the nicest I’ve ever seen to fans.

It would be lots of fun if I weren’t recovering from pneumonia.

So far I’ve been present at the opening ceremonies where the importance of showering was greatly emphasized (in a good way, truly. It was funny.)

Then there was the vampire panel, where I found out that notwithstanding OMike’s being convinced that I have legions of gay vampires.

(Unless three is now a legion this is unlikely) I found that I’m not nearly fascinated enough by vampires to read everything ever read containing a vampire. However my copannelists were nice people and seemed to have a lot of fun. Then I had a reading where I avoided reading at all, instead talking meanderingly about my writing. And now I have a break till the dinner with writers at five pm. Tomorrow I have a more solid schedule, as per previous post. If you’re in Denver, come out and see me. Sarah PS – Pardon the weird font. Sometimes my eee does this. I need too figure out if there’s a patch.

Over at Lucienne Diver’s (my wonderful agent) blog, I have a post up in her ongoing series "Gargoyles and Shifters and Demons, Oh My!

(http://varkat.livejournal.com/71498.html)