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Convention Attention: How Was Your First Time?
One of the reasons I enjoy writing this column is that I hope someone who is reading it, who has never been to a convention before will decide to go to one, be it a fan run scifi and fantasy...
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Convention Attention: Convention First-Timers Roundtable (Part 2)
Remember last month when this column hosted a roundtable of people who had recently attended their first convention? Well, I got so many responses that I had to split the roundtable into two parts. And...
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Convention Attention: Anime Midwest
Earlier this month, my husband and I attended Anime Midwest, in Chicago. As the name implies, the majority of guests, panels, and activities had a connection to Japanese anime shows and movies,...
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Convention Attention: NASFiC & DetCon1’s Committment to Diversity
I know the big news lately is the Hugo Awards (congrats to all the winners by the way!), and we all know it’s called Worldcon because it moves around the World. But what if you live in the US, and...
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CONVENTION ATTENTION: Context27 in Columbus, Ohio
Last month I attended Context27, a small and cozy speculative fiction convention in Columbus, OH. Context is a writers convention, and this year’s guests of honor where Jonathan Maberry and Betsy...
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Convention Attention: John Wenger on 35 Years of Attending Conventions
My friend John has been to a lot of conventions, and I mean a lot. I don’t want to make him feel old, but he attended his first convention the same year I was born. When he mentioned that he’d kept the...
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Convention Attention: Behind The Scenes at Grand Rapids ComicCon
Last month I attended Grand Rapids ComicCon, held in Grand Rapids, MI. One of the Event Co-Coordinators, Mark Hodges, was instrumental in helping me buy tickets ahead of time. We had a nice chat over...
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Convention Attention: Back to the ConFusion
In mid-January, amongst the single digit temperatures and icy roads, I prepared for ConFusion, an annual science fiction convention that takes place just outside Detroit. Because everyone wants to...
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Convention Attention: Readercon Roundtable with Rose Fox, Rachel Borman,...
Held in Boston every summer, Readercon focuses on imaginative fiction, and is just as famous for it’s guest lists and casual atmosphere as it is for it’s Shirley Jackson Awards and Cordwainer Smith...
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[GUEST POST] Convention Attention: Dallas ComicCon Fan Days
This month’s column comes from SFSignal’s very own Kristin Centorcelli, who recently attended Dallas ComicCon Fan Days. A large scale media based event, ComicCon is loaded with TV and Movie stars,...
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[GUEST POST] Convention Attention: Odisseia de Literatura Fantástica de Porto...
Edgard Refinetti lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He collects e-books, strange names, recollections and other intangible items. One of his stories is about to be published in an upcoming Brazilian kaiju...
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[GUEST POST] Convention Attention: WisCon 39
This month’s Convention Attention is brought to us by Rachel Cordasco who recently attended WisCon 39 (the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention.) Take it away, Rachel! I went to my...
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Convention Attention: An Interview with the Co-Founder of Stan Lee’s Comikaze...
Welcome back to the occasional column Convention Attention! I recently got an amazing opportunity to interview Regina Carpinelli, the co-founder of Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo, and Regina is as amazing as...
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Convention Attention: Life, The Universe, and ConFusion
This is my fifth (fourth? Fifth? I’m not sure, actually) year attending ConFusion. The con has hopped around a bit, but it’s always in a large hotel in the Detroit Metropolitan area. This year, it was...
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Convention Attention: Let’s go to Barbados! (An Interview with Author Lucy A....
Now in its seventh year, AnimeKon has grown into a huge ComicCon in Barbados. Bringing together cosplayers, anime fans, gamers, comic book artists, graphic designers, authors, actors, movie buffs,...
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