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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

Well, here we are in January, with about six months left until the curtain goes up on Son of Silvercon II: Nuclear-Electric Boogaloo. We have a hotel nailed down, we have guests returning from last year, and we have a number of things that are in the discussion stage or already underway – Friday Night… Continue reading Six months to go

Hope everyone’s Thanksgiving was a good one – mine was good, except for having to be in Las Vegas for VA stuff the day before and driving home after eating an early Thanksgiving dinner. After that, I spent most of the following week fighting off a savage cold and an infestation of S. aureus that… Continue reading Hotel reservations and pre-registration

The contract with the Plaza has been signed, so now we have a lovely hotel with lots of function space to jump around in and a consuite that is HUEG LIKE XBOX. Now all we need is a couple hundred of our close personal friends to show up, and twenty of them to sign up… Continue reading ON LIKE DONKEY KONG

The post-mortem was very productive and people came up with lots of good ideas for next year, most of which we can get done without blowing fresh holes in the budget. (See previous post.) So, without further ado… Sarah suggested we do a YA short story contest (short stories written by young adults) with prizes,… Continue reading A rather lengthy to-do list

Money makes the world go ’round. Money is the thing we work for so we can do fun stuff like stage conventions so we can have fun with a couple of hundred of our closest friends. Which means that on every convention staff, there’s a guy chewing on his pencil and grinding his teeth when… Continue reading Greasy Budgetary Stuff