{"id":1198,"date":"2011-06-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:34:12","slug":"scott-westerfeld-is-keynote-speaker-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT WESTERFELD! Is the Keynote Speaker for Kidlitcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidlitosphere.org\/news\/2011\/6\/26\/registration-for-the-5th-annual-kidlitcon-is-now-open.html\">Registration is now open<\/a> for the 5th Annual Kidlitosphere Conference, better known as Kidlitcon, to be held at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle on September 16 and 17. The keynote speaker has been confirmed: <a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/\">Scott Westerfeld<\/a>, author of such books as <i>Leviathan<\/i> and the <i>Uglies<\/i> quartet. How cool is that? <\/p>\n<p>Yours truly will definitely be in attendance, possibly as part of a panel (though nothing&#8217;s set in stone yet on that score), and I can hardly wait. Although it&#8217;s a conference that caters to bloggers, not a writing conference, it&#8217;s still one of my favorite conferences of the year, for so many reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s small and intimate&#8211;making it much easier to mingle and talk to people, especially if you&#8217;re intimidated by strangers and large groups (erm, like me)<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s got a diverse mixture of attendees&#8211;writers, librarians, illustrators, publishing folk&#8211;and, because of the small group size, it&#8217;s much easier to get to know people<\/li>\n<li>you get to meet people in person who you might only have &#8220;met&#8221; online, through blogging<\/li>\n<li>the panels and talks change every year, and cater to a variety of audiences who blog for many different reasons, so I (so far) haven&#8217;t felt like it&#8217;s rehashing the same subjects each time<\/li>\n<li>because of all of the above, I always leave feeling like I&#8217;ve made a real connection with people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will be my third Kidlitcon, and, if you can&#8217;t tell, I&#8217;m really excited about it, and really want all of YOU, my blogging friends, to go. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidlitosphere.org\/news\/2011\/6\/26\/registration-for-the-5th-annual-kidlitcon-is-now-open.html\">Hint, hint<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Kidlitosphere Conference, better known as Kidlitcon, to be held at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,18,10],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-happenings","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}