Capclave went very well. I gave away lots of business cards and flyers for Beneath Ceaseless Skies.  Great panels on (trying to) save the magazines and on new media, such as Facebook and podcasts (which I think is one of the ways to save the magazines).  Great chats with Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine.  Great to see many of the young writers and editors who I know, including the editors of Lightspeed, and great to see GOH Sheila Williams, who I met at Odyssey.

Next year’s Capclave GOH is Connie Willis, who I met at a workshop two years ago.  I’ll be back next year, and it should be just as cool.

I just saw the press release for a new online SF magazine called Lightspeed.

It looks top-notch–the editors will be John Joseph Adams and Andrea Kail, the publisher is Prime Books (who publishes Fantasy Magazine), and the artwork on the site looks very cool.

I’m all for online fiction, of course.  And I think that, in this age of declining short fiction readership, ‘zines with a more niche focus may be a stronger lure to readers than ‘zines with a more generalist approach.  I think the focus of my mag Beneath Ceaseless Skies attracts readers interested in traditional or epic fantasy, and I bet Lightspeed‘s focus on SF will attract SF fans.

Best of luck to them!

Capclave has slick links to personal schedules for each program participant. Here’s mine.

At my reading Friday at 9:30, I will read from “Ebb,” my story that was in Space and Time last spring. At the panels on magazines and new media, I will have some interesting takes on those ideas based on my online mag Beneath Ceaseless Skies and how we use podcasts of short stories.

The Sunday panel, on paranormal romance and urban fantasy, I’m not sure I will have a whole lot to contribute. :) So I may be mostly moderating what the other panelists have to say.

If you see me at the con, by all means introduce yourself and say hello.

I will be at Capclave 2009, the D.C. area’s F/SF convention, the weekend of Oct. 16-18.  It’s a lot like ReaderCon in its focus on the literary side of F/SF, but it’s smaller.

The editor GOH this year is Sheila Williams, Editor of Asimov’s, who I know from her guest lecture during my year at Odyssey.  She read and critted my literary story “A Brief Swell of Twilight” and enjoyed it even though it was not spec-fic.

I will be giving a reading and appearing on a couple panels, mostly about short fiction and the future of magazines.  I’ll post later with the details on those.