Seems there are more similarities between Harry Dresden and Harry Potter than I ever thought.  Morgan kinda-sorta is Severus Snape to Harry.

Now, if Jim ever shows a flashback where a giant man on a motorcycle approaches Harry at the orphanage and tells him "Yer a Wizard, 'arry!".... 

Now this is the type of hype I can get behind. 

Coming back one more time to that particular panel, one of the things Jim said was that he writes very detailed chapter outlines and then this makes it easy for him to write that chapter in one go.

I wonder if he ever has published one of those detailed chapter outlines, because I think it would help me a lot with my process. If any anybody has a link to that, I'd really appreciate it if s/he could share it (if it exists at all, of course).

If there is no such published chapter outline, then if there is to be a Peace Talks AMA on Reddit, like the one he did for the release of Brief Cases, I think I will ask if he can publish a detailed chapter outline for one of his prior books (or for Peace Talks, after publication) on the website.

Right. I think I've only mentioned twice or thrice already how helpful that particular panel was for aspiring writers, so I think I'll mention it one more time, since I think it was that good.

"Her-storically Speaking: Meet the Women of War"
"Her-storically Speaking: The Lost Women of History"
"A Woman's Guide to Rebuilding Civilizaton"
"Women in Illustration"
"Awesome Women in Digital Media"

That's just panels from one third into that guide, after which I gave up because DragonCon apparently is a black of hole of a thousand panels. Quite overwhelming.

In any case, is anybody offended by those women-centric panels staffed by (surprise) only women? Of course not. So why would anybody be offended by an all-male panel? Though the panel was clearly not about anything male-related, anyway, except the gender of the participants.

In any case, if somebody here got offended at the title of the panel, please also get equal-opportunity offended at the title of those panels mentioned above. Otherwise, go a little more spare on the hipocrisy.

Hm, yeah. I found those stories about the YA publishing world pretty upsetting when I heard about them. One controversy was over a novel called "The Black Witch", where the author was accused of all sorts of terrible things because she depicted racism, even if it was in a completely negative way.

Anyway, aside from I guess one sentence from Kevin J. Anderson about him not being wild about those "sensitivity readers" being required by some publishers for some genres, the panel was, as I've stressed already, very informative and really helpful for me. Especially some of the stuff Jim said, but then again he is always awesome and informative on his panels.

Well, the moderator was female. All in all, it was a panel very much worth watching.