Category: Appearances

  • Fantasy, SF, and Horror @ Rickert & Beagle

    Join Michael Arnzen, Stephanie Wytovich and Lawrence Connolly for a reading and booksigning at Rickert & Beagle Books — Pittsburgh’s awesome new bookstore for fantasy, science-fiction and horror fiction — at 2pm on August 2nd, 2014. If you haven’t been to the store yet, this is a great opportunity to check it out. Peter S. Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) and . .…

  • The Brighton Readings: Part Two

    Long ago, when I was first entertaining notions of sharing my stories with a wide audience, I came across a passage in Ben Bova’s Notes to a Science Fiction Writer. It describes a photograph that he saw in a book titled The Faces of Man. Bova writes: [The photograph] shows an African village, where most…

  • The Brighton Readings: Part One

    Call me the warrior scop. Maybe I didn’t battle monsters at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, but I did spend some time beating back gale-force winds that rivaled those of England’s Great Storm of 1987. And I did get a chance to wield an artisan-made sword from a dealers-room display. So maybe I…

  • Have Stories: Will Travel

    Continuing the tradition of the traveling bard, the 21st Century Scop will be hitting the road this week, heading off to England to give readings at the University of Brighton on Wednesday, October 30 (5:30 PM), and then at the World Fantasy Convention’s Reading Café on Saturday, November 2 (12:30 PM). If you’re going to…

  • The Stars Align

    I’ve just heard from a good friend who has a membership to the  World Fantasy Convention in Brighton. The convention sold out over six months ago, and since then memberships to the international gathering of writers, editors, publishers and fans have been trading like stock futures. If you’re interested in fantastic literature, WFC is definitely…

  • The Portal Opens: GenCon Preview, Part 2

    The portal opens, and for one week the city changes, reality morphs, fantasy rules. The event is GenCon, the massive fantasy and science fiction gaming convention that takes over Indianapolis each August.  Attendance this year is projected to break past records, which were well beyond 40,000 attendees. Part of the event is the GenCon Writer’s…