TusCon 2019

[larryhammer]

A little late, but here’s my schedule for TusCon 46 this weekend. Say Hi if you see me. Suggestions welcome for "SFF for Early Readers" (ignore the description -- we’re going to talk about genre books for K-2^nd graders, training convention goers be damned).

Sa 12-1 pm - Just Finish the Damned Thing! The Importance of Completing that First Draft
Did I say starting is the hardest part? Lies. You gotta finish. Drive through to the end. Wrap it all up. Put a bow on it. Get it to the point where your editor can tell you everything you did wrong. That’s the hard part.
Cameron D Blackwell, KJ Kabza, Larry Hammer, Linda D Addison, Paul Clinco

Sa 1-2 pm - Autograph Session
Come get autographs from your favorite folks. Some are even probably selling stuff.
Frankie Robertson, Jennifer Roberson, Larry Hammer, Weston Ochse, Yvonne Navarro, K.S. Merbeth

Su 9-10 am - SFF for Early Readers
9:00 am - 10:00 am
What’s out there for the kids? How do we make the next generation of convention goers?
Dania Wright, Jill Knowles, Larry Hammer, Janni Lee Simner

---L.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

I have thoughts on fantasy novels and manga for grades 3-5ish, but not K-2. Probably not relevant enough.

[larryhammer]

Not for this, no, but for future reference, quite.

[thistleingrey]

Harriet Hamsterbone and Danny Dragonbreath (heh), Tui Sutherland's Wings of Fire books, Lang and Bartkowski's Mystic Cooking (?) books, Chris Colfer's Land of Stories books--going by what Reason has borrowed voluntarily over and over from the library or mentioned as interesting to specific classmates. I'd include Tiernay West in this set, too.

The comic-style seq-art titles that Kate has mentioned in comments to me (which I think you know about already) have held for Reason as well--Kibuishi's Amulet sequence, the Zita books, and Kid Beowulf especially.

Grain of salt: in third grade, Reason reported that a couple of classmates were still on level 2 of the slim paperback early readers. Grades 3-5 by my sense here is partly for content--less grim or directly sexual than some other stories that are shelved with these, and definitely gripping for a variety of readers.

Manga, for which I've a less clear sense of how direct the romances are: Cardcaptor Sakura, Pokémon, Kingdom Hearts.

[larryhammer]

*scribbles notes like mad* *mad, I tell you, mad!*

[thistleingrey]

heh! What did people suggest for K-2 (or other ranges) during the panel? (If you don't have time/interest to answer, no worries at all.)

[larryhammer]

Our notes of recs from others are a little scattered, and with Eaglet down with con crud we haven't had time to pull them together. Hope to, soon.