J.L. (Jim) Doty

Running dog lackey

Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment

Participates in 8 items

Jim is a full-time SF&F writer, scientist (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering), laser geek, and former running-dog-lackey for the bourgeois capitalist establishment. He's been writing for over 30 years, with 10 published books. His first success came through self-publishing when his books went word-of-mouth viral, and sold enough that he was able to quit his day-job, start working for himself and write full time--his new boss is a real jerk. That led to contracts with traditional publishers like Open Road Media and Harper Collins Voyager, and his books are now a mix of traditional and self-published. His tenth novel, the third in his urban fantasy series The Dead Among Us, was released in February of 2017. Right now he's submitting his eleventh novel, The Witch of Val d'Ossa, to publishers; he's fleshing out ideas for the next book in The Dead Among Us; he's writing another episode in The Treasons Cycle; and he's just finished his twelfth novel, A Hymn for the Dying, the first in a new SF series, The Blacksword Regiment. Science is a passion, but writing is an addiction.

Sessions in which J.L. (Jim) Doty participates

Friday 25 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

8:00 PM

Bad Bar Trivia

1 hour 30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Colin Fisk (Moderator)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

Linden Tarr, PhotoBOMBincorporated (Participant)

Eric "in the Elevator" Z Zuckerman, Kosher Ham Studios (Participant)

Join our esteemed panel for a night of bad bar trivia. The twist - the audience will be asking the panel trivia questions and the panelists will pr...

Saturday 26 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

10:00 AM

Writing From Your Roots

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Laurel Anne Hill (Moderator)

Kevin Andrew Murphy (Participant)

Sandra Saidak, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

2:30 PM

The Coming Job Crash

1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Douglas Berry, Santa Clara Police Department (Moderator)

David Friedman, School of Law, Santa Clara University (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

5:30 PM

How do you define a good book?

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3

Margaret McGaffey Fisk, TTO Publishing (Moderator)

Linden Tarr, PhotoBOMBincorporated (Participant)

Jennifer McGaffey (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

8:30 PM

Let's Not Kill Hitler

1 hour 30 minutes, 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Douglas Berry, Santa Clara Police Department (Moderator)

Margaret Organ-Kean (Participant)

Tamora Pierce (Participant)

Steven Mix, Green Machine Comics (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

Sunday 27 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

11:30 AM

The Direction of Modern Science Fiction

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1

Margaret McGaffey Fisk, TTO Publishing (Moderator)

Linden Tarr, PhotoBOMBincorporated (Participant)

Amanda Coronado (Participant)

Peter Beagle (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

Science fiction started out as an age of wonder with everything shiny and perfect, all our troubles solved through science and looking outward. The...

2:30 PM

Writing from the Heart

1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1

Deborah J. Ross (Moderator)

M. Todd Gallowglas, Gallowglas Army (Participant)

Fred Wiehe (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

4:00 PM

Bad Science: Pseudoscience, Hoaxes, and Illogical Thinking

1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Moderator)

Howard Davidson, Facebook (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

When we're reading or writing science fiction, we've got some poetic license, but we want the science to be fundamentally right. When looking for s...