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
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Bad Bar Trivia San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Writing From Your Roots San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- The Coming Job Crash San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- How do you define a good book? San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Let's Not Kill Hitler San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- The Direction of Modern Science Fiction San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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
2:30 PM
- Writing from the Heart San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Bad Science: Pseudoscience, Hoaxes, and Illogical Thinking San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...