Friday night was the 3rd Friday meeting of WSFA. It was a very long business meeting and the upshot is that there is going to be some exciting news about Capclave 2009 very soon now. Updates and news about what’s happening at Capclave can be found on the new Capclave blog. Then this afternoon there […]
Capclave is the annual convention put on by WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association) in October. In 2009, the Capclave Chair is Bill Lawhorn. The convention will be held 16-18 October 2009 with Guests of Honor Harry Turtledove and Sheila Williams. The convention will be held in the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville, Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville […]
I’m the Capclave Chair for 2010. That means that starting now we’re gearing up for the convention that is to be held in October of 2010 somewhere in the DC area. This year’s Capclave 2009 will be in the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville, Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The convention guests will be […]
This is the 3rd year of the WSFA Small Press Award. “The award is open to works of imaginative literature (science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc.) published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year. Furthermore, the Small Press Award is limited to works under 17,501 words in length that were published by […]
Today was work, work, work — getting books entered, reading for reviews, taking notes and getting set for a WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association) Meeting in DC. For the next six month or so the club is meeting in DC … usually we meet in Virginia for the first Friday of the month, and Maryland […]
I thought readers might just be interested in this. Besides, this year I’m working as the award administrator — meaning I’m the clerk for the committee. It’s blind judging of the stories so someone has to take all the identifying information off the stories and this year that’s me. I’ve been working on this all […]
Finally, I’m getting the Sunday Capclave details up. As you know, we were so busy on Sunday that we didn’t get to post. We got up late. Packed up and got our bags and baggage out to the car. Double checked that we hadn’t missed anything in the room, and checked out. By this time, […]
Panels started at 10 a.m. this morning but I felt it was more important to search for coffee than to get to the first panel of the day. I figured snoring or nodding off during a panel doesn’t set the right tone of interest in the audience for the panel members. So, off in search […]