Anyone Going to LTUE?

[moose42]

Life The Universe and Everything (LTUE) is a speculative fiction, creative writing convention/lecture series held every year for the past 28 years at BYU in Provo Utah.

It's only $20 for three jam packed days, February 17th 18th and 19th.

Preregistration is up, and so is the schedule.

According to the schedule the following authors will be in attendance, plus some.

Larry Correia
Dan Wells
John Brown
Howard Tayler
Bree DeSpain
Tracy Hickman
Brad R. Torgersen
L. E. Modesitt, Jr

So anyone on the forum going? Do you guys want to meet up and do lunch, or dinner or something?

[staylor]

I would if i didn't live in Frikkin' California.

[Flintlock Tom]

Wow! I would love to go, if only to shake Larry Correia's hand.

Sadly, life intrudes.

[moose42]

I would if i didn't live in Frikkin' California.

That can be fixed you know. All you need is a truck.

[staylor]

I would if i didn't live in Frikkin' California.

That can be fixed you know. All you need is a truck.

Already got a truck and its lookin' more and more likely that I will be living in Nevada by next fall.

[moose42]

Good for you. We'll welcome you to Free America when you leave the green curtain.

[staylor]

Good for you. We'll welcome you to Free America when you leave the green curtain.

First thing I'm gonna do when I get back to the world... buy a gun and walk away with it, no waiting period. That's the dream.

[Cybrludite]

Again, my travel funds and time-off budget is tied up with events in March. Besides, with that long a road trip, I'd have to find someone with whom to trade off on the driving. (I refuse to submit to Mineta's Morons anymore.)

[moose42]

Oh my goodness I just looked at the schedule. There's something I want to go to at nearly EVERY time slot. Some of them have two time slots.

So these are the lectures that I want to go to per time slot. From 9am to 8pm. Holy crap 12 hours per day! Looks like I'm going to need to bring a survival kit full of powerbars, and water. Grin

Thurs

Best and Worst writing advice
Writing Action (Larry Correia)
How to Scare People (Dan Wells)
Building Believable Aliens (Howard)
Time Travel
Plots, Subplots, and Foreshadow (John Brown, Larry)
Contemporary/urban fantasy (Larry Correia)
The Writing Life: How to set goals
Pay it Forward: Help other writers…
Marketing and Publicity
Creating a Fictional Language (Session1)
Creating a Fictional Language (Session1 cont)

Fri

How to research, when to stop, and what to use
How to write a good short story
Main address Steve Keele
Romance vs. Story with Romantic Elements: Injecting romance into saving the world
Writing Group help
Characters Morals Vs authors
Plotstorming from Character
Rewriting to Greatness or... Or Space Travel without Warp
Nothing but crap this time slot.
The Horror, the Horror (Dan wells)
Fictional Language (Session 2) or How to plot a novel in 1 hr.
Fictional Language (Session 2) or Zombies!

Sat

Religion in Sci-Fi or What I wish I had done…
How to recover from writing slumps
Main Address James Dashner
Military on Military SF
Writing Excuses Podcast!
Writing Excuses Podcast continued
Pitching to Agents/ Editors
Memorable Villans (Larry Correia)
Local publishers?
Local publishers or maybe Why we love Lovecraft.