Selling Short Fiction: Selling short fiction can be a long road, especially in a marketplace with dwindling print anthologies and falling magazine sales. But short fiction is still an art worth pursuing. Our panelists discuss markets, techniques, and how penning short stories can improve your chances of publishing novels.
Where you set your tale can be as important as the characters you populate it with. Crafting a vivid setting that is integral to your plot is an art. Our panelists will discuss how they paint their backdrops and offer suggestions about how you can bring your own settings to life.
For many authors, “shared world” fiction is their ticket into the publishing world. Work-for-hire projects can even land you on bestsellers’ lists. How do you find the work? Just what constitutes work-for-hire? And what are the good, bad, and ugly aspects of it?
Join the Skeptical Gamers as they discuss and debunk the claims of nonsense and pseudoscience in this choose-your-own adventure panel! Come for the awesome, stay for the 'Stump the skeptics' Q&A!
Join the Skeptical Gamers as they discuss and debunk the claims of nonsense and pseudoscience in this choose-your-own adventure panel! Come for the awesome, stay for the 'Stump the skeptics' Q&A!
Join the Skeptical Gamers as they discuss and debunk the claims of nonsense and pseudoscience in this choose-your-own adventure panel! Come for the awesome, stay for the 'Stump the skeptics' Q&A!
Today, the 19th Century Age of Imperialism seems a quaint anachronism – an era populated by a new wave of technological marvels. Imperial ambition burst beyond the limits of Earth and soon included the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury as stages upon which these contests were played out. This lecture surveys the figures, powers, events, and technologies of the era, ending as the stage was set for the interplanetary struggles of the 20th Century.
Join the creator of the Forgotten Realms setting, Ed Greenwood, for a rollicking group storytelling experience that’s always memorable and highly amusing.
Gen Con’s Author Guest of Honor, Anton Strout, will wax eloquent, field questions, and discuss his urban fantasy novels and upcoming projects. Interviewed by Elizabeth Vaughan.
Steampunk is hot. Literature, fashion and the DIY approach appeals to more and more people every day. Can the DIY approach carry over to your RPGs? Which video games have a Steampunk theme or are adding Steampunk elements? What card & board games have a Steampunk theme? Is there really THAT big of a fan base? What is the difference between Steampunk, Dieselpunk and Cyberpunk in games? Come learn about the future/past setting of Steampunk gaming.