The program for BristolCon is now live (a whole 3 weeks before the convention, y’all). This is what I’m doing:

10:00 – 10:45 Music in my Writing: Music might be even harder to write about than Sex or Death, and yet it’s a really important part of the process for most writers. Many authors write to music or put together soundtracks of their own books. How does music seep into and influence our work? With Tricia Sullivan (Mod), Gunnar Roxen, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Kim Lakin-Smith.

19:00 – 19:45 Steampunk and the Class System: Does steampunk ignore what goes on below stairs? Is it all top hats and parasols, or should we be looking more at the dark underbelly of industrialisation and Empire? With Robert Harkess, Scott Lewis, Roz Clarke, Adrian Tchaikovsky.

I’m very pleased that JCG is on the music panel with me, because I can thank him for introducing me to some fine Arabic music. As to the steampunk panel, I guess I should read this before the convention.

There’s lots of other good stuff going on too. Check it out here.