Author: wombat.socho

tl;dr: another qualified success. Membership was up, vendors were up, everybody seemed to enjoy the convention and indicated they’d be back next year. The first issue of the newsletter is out going into more detail about stuff that went well and stuff that didn’t and things we’re thinking about changing for next year. Like the… Continue reading Son of Silvercon III AAR

Okay, this is where we’re at. The programming schedule is 99.99995% done, and I’ll be sending it off to Caitlin this weekend so she can whip the Program Book into shape. T-shirts have been ordered, we have badge flags ready to be attached to suitable badges, and we have plenty of lanyards left over from… Continue reading Two weeks until Son of Silvercon III!

Well, we have the T-shirts ordered – if you didn’t get your order in, I did order some extras for that very reason. I’ve got a list of topics that our Guest of Honor is ready to cover, which include the writing topics some of you have asked for. If you haven’t booked your hotel… Continue reading Just about ready

I finally got access to the whole WordPress site for the con and made necessary changes, including adding a real merchandise page. According to Our Man in Vegas, Dan Minucci, we have the following T-shirts left over from previous years: 2023: 1 S 4 M 14 L 15 XL 14 2XL 18 3XL 6 4XL… Continue reading Stuff that worked and stuff that didn’t

(with apologies to the late David Bowie) So, we have a new hotel, much to the relief of those of you who found access to the consuite in the Plaza to be a PITA. We’ll be at the Hampton Inn Tropicana, and you can book your hotel room through the link. Unfortunately, Tim Powers had… Continue reading The Same Career In A New Town

Behold, I bring you the responses to the RFP I asked the Las Vegas Convention Center & Visitors Authority to send out for us, excluding the Plaza, whose prices and space will be pretty much what they were this year. All the room rates are Friday/Saturday/Sunday and include resort fees; I have included links to… Continue reading Where do we go next year?

Well, there really wasn’t much tumult, and no shouting, for which I was duly thankful. Could have used a little more tumult. Despite reaching out to local fans of the RenFaire and Trek variety, our attendance was lower than last year, perhaps because of the San Diego Comic Con the following week, the Star Trek… Continue reading The tumult and the shouting dies

Well, here we are three weeks out from the convention. and unless we get a bunch of people showing up to register at the door, we’re going to have a smaller convention than we did last year, so much so that I am going to ask the hotel to drop the larger of our two… Continue reading Where the people on the street put their mettle to the test

I didn’t go to Balticon this year, but I did go out to DC and hang out with friends, including John C. Wright and his lovely wife, L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright. I braced them about coming out to join us next year, when Tim Powers will be our Guest of Honor, and they gave me… Continue reading Post-Memorial Day Update

Having bollixed up and then trashed the previous version, let’s try this again… At the beginning of the month I went to Confinement, which is Mike Williamson’s house party/relaxacon/writers’ conference, and foolishly took no flyers or posters with me since there was an Office Max up the road, and surely they could do some flyers… Continue reading Four months out