Posts Tagged ‘World Fantasy Convention 2009’

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    World Fantasy con report: Day 4 by Alan DeNiro – costumes and departures
    *Balloon Boy Not Included There has seemed in the past to be some tension between two philosophies, if you will, with costumes at World Fantasy. One: costumes are highly unprofessional at a highly professional con, and are to be strongly discouraged. The other: It’s Halloween, damn it, and there’s such a thing as bending over backwards in order to seem proper....
    by Alan DeNiro at November 1st, 2009 at 11:11 am
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    World Fantasy con report: Day 3 by Alan DeNiro: the books
    World Fantasy is a bibliophile’s dream, and a wallet’s nightmare. It starts out in bountiful excess: as soon as one checks in at the con, one receives a giant bag o’ books. Each bag is a little different–though there are similarities–and this year’s crop has many nifty surprises: an audiobook of Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels,...
    by Alan DeNiro at November 1st, 2009 at 03:11 am
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    World Fantasy con report: Day 2 by Alan DeNiro
    There will be some space-time discontinuum in this post, because it will include a few pictures from a distant time known as…yesterday… Bobbing Birds! You can see, at the party last night, the interrelationship between the actual birds and the one on the cover. These were the prizes given for the Last Drink Bird Head Awards. behold... Here, Neil Clarke, who...
    by Alan DeNiro at October 31st, 2009 at 06:10 am
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    World Fantasy con report: Day 1 by Alan DeNiro
    So. The novel that I’m working on now, the “new” one, has had in the past a working title of World Fantasy.  I go back and forth on its ability to provide any kind of “shelf context,” and I’ll likely change some parameters with the novel itself (its structure, characters, etc., etc.). But what drew me to that potential title in the...
    by Alan DeNiro at October 30th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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    World Fantasy Convention report: Day 0 by Alan DeNiro
    Greetings all. This is Alan DeNiro. Thanks to this site for the opportunity to post miscellany and musings throughout the World Fantasy Convention, which is taking place in San Jose, California, this year. In, oh, about 8 hours, I’ll be on a plane from the Twin Cities, and we’ll see what happens. About me: I write, well, a little bit of everything, but mostly...
    by Alan DeNiro at October 29th, 2009 at 07:10 am