For those of you in the Memphis area, I'll be attending MidSouthCon once again this year. It starts on Friday, March 23 and runs through Sunday ... and I have the schedule now for my panels.

It's my hometown show - as mentioned in my column on the subject in Comics Buyer's Guide #1629, reaching readers now. Mark Waid will be there - he also has a signing on Friday afternoon at Comics & Collectibles on Poplar - and as I've just learned, another CBG contributor, Shanda creator Mike Curtis will be attending the show as well. Terry Pratchett is the show's author guest of honor this year.

Friday evening is the opening ceremonies and the "meet the guests" events, starting at 8 p.m. Then for Saturday, I'm on a 10 a.m. panel on handling publicity in the creative field (that one's me, Mark, and the Commercial Appeal's John Beifuss) and then one at 12 noon with Mark on "Writing Comics" (and I expect to learn as much from him as the audience will).

There's a signing session for the early afternoon - I'll have along a small amount of my stuff if there's issues you don't have - and then at 4 p.m. is my own panel on Knights of the Old Republic and what's coming up in the comics series this year. At 7 p.m., there's a panel on the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars - that's with me, Jim Hall (Star Wars: Rogue Squadron) and Tim Brown.

Finally, if I'm still breathing by then, Dean Zachary and I have a panel on comics-spawned movies Sunday morning at 10 a.m. Given how late the Saturday nights usually run at this con, those Sunday morning panels tend to be entertaining just to see what condition the attendees are in!

The official site is here -- and I'll post any schedule updates on my site. Drop by if you're in the area!