Tag: GenCon Writer’s Symposium
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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…
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The Portal Closes: Looking Back @ GenCon
Imagine 50,000 people packed into a single indoor space. Now add a 20-foot tall Cthulhu (made entirely of balloons), a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (in a top hat, no less), armies of warriors and monsters, and a roster of top sf and fantasy writers. Yes, it got crowded. But that’s GenCon. Never mind that the…
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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…
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GenCon Preview: Part 1
If you plan on being one of the 40,000+ people attending GenCon in Indianapolis this summer, you’ll want to be sure to be a part of my reading with Paul Genesse, taking place at the GenCon Writer’s Symposium on Friday, August 16, at 5:00 PM. I’ll be reading a portion of “The Fourth Sign,” my…