In episode 277 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester talks with Gail Carriger, Karen Burnham, Django Wexler, and Jeff Patterson about 2015 conventions! [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s been a lot of news lately — the Hugo ballot was announced, and the British Science Fiction Awards were presented at Eastercon! Awards season is upon us, [...]
This month’s Convention Attention column is an open discussion thread. Your responses will help shape what I talk about in upcoming months. Here are your discussion [...]
I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately on the importance of “Convention culture”, of how wonderful it is to have face-to-face conversations with [...]