Brust Track: Listed below are the appearance details for our Literature Guest of Honor, Steven Brust. In addition to the scheduled events you may be able to attend the occasional impromptu panel with him. We title these "Late Night Musings" and make no promises that you will be able to attend because, a) you have to be awake when they happen, and b) you have to find him <grin>. Steve is a naturally a night creature, as such he tends to be up longer than the convention programming gives him things to do. Many people have reported that if you track him down in the wee hours of a con that he can be found spinning impromptu tales, debating politics religion and theology, or involved in various arcane meditation and rejuvenation rites that involve alcohol and tobacco. If you are lucky enough to find him at one of the sessions you'll never forget the experience. If this sounds interesting we suggest that you start your search for him in the hotel Pub. Scheduled Brust sightings: Friday 5:00 PM: Book Signing - Vendor Hall (Grand Mesa D-E) Steve signs books that you bring him. Please only bring him books that he was involved in and keep the quantity light - we like seeing new things from him and want to avoid giving him literal writer's cramp. 6:30 PM: Author's choice reading - Mesa Verde B Let's start of right. Steve has written in various genres, time periods, and styles, and in the last year he's even become involved in a Firefly novel bid. We'll let him decide what he wants to read from - but no matter what he chooses you'll be glad you are there to hear him. 8:00 PM: Writing books while giggling - Mesa Verde B Steve tells how Dragaera got a second series. And why he never expected it to be published, let alone sell. Writing _The Phoenix Guards_ and the unpublished Firefly novel, and what was behind these books as well as the others. How he nicknames all his own books, but not his collaborations. Saturday 2:00 PM Dragaera Q&A - Mesa Verde B Join the writer of one of Fantasy's best loved series as he discusses with the audience the why's and what fors of his vibrant world. He may even answer a few burning questions of the realm - but, knowing Steve, he'll likely leave you with more questions than you entered with. 4:00 PM: Tarot Design - Mesa Verde B What would a Dragaeran Tarot Deck look like - and how would Dragaerans use it? Steve will be joined by a tarot expert and you, the audience, while you all delve into what exactly such a Tarot would look like and how it would be used, by Dragaerans, and perhaps even by those of us in less fantastic worlds. 6:00 till Done - The Dragaeran Feast - Room 1121 What do they eat in Dragaera? You've read about it, but now you have the chance to wrap your tongue around "authentic" Dragaeran food. Best of all you'll be dining with Steve at this exclusive and delicious multi-course meal. 9:00 PM: Steve on Stage - Mesa Verde B Steve, a guitar and a stage. The only thing between him and the bar is you - the audience. Come listen to their dulcet tones, make requests if you like - but just like in his books, expect him to take you places you did not think to go. Sunday 1:00 PM: Dragaeran games - Thunder Pass Dragaerans live an awful long time and torturing Easterners can only keep boredom at bay for so long. So, what sort of games do Dragaerans play? Come and explore the pass-times of the well-nigh-immortal. 2:30 PM: Book Signing - Vendor Hall (Grand Mesa D-E) Steve signs books that you bring him. Please only bring him books that he was involved in and keep the quantity light - we like seeing new things from him and want to avoid giving him literal writer's cramp. 4:00 PM: Fan Fiction - Thunder Pass Fans writing fiction based in someone else's universe is a big thing in fandom. While most writers can often talk to their fans about fan fiction written in their worlds Steve can also tell you about his own experience and techniques when writing fan fiction. Steve is in the running to be an official writer in the Firefly universe, but no matter who gets chosen we'll all still get to see what he has in mind as he has promised his fans that in the event his Firefly novel is NOT published, he'll publish it as fanfic. Please note the following changes - The Dragaera LARP has been cancelled this year due to the joyous occurrence of the Head storyteller's pregnancy and As to the other I blame OPEC as the Dragaera RPG discussion has been cancelled due to the price of gas - the company putting it together is on the East coast and cannot afford the gas to get to Opus and back again - Steve does not want to sit that panel alone for obvious reasons.