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Cover art “August” courtesy of Guest of Honor Reiko Murakami See more of her work at reikomurakami.com CONTACT INFORMATION WFC2019.org [email protected] Facebook and Twitter: wfc2019 Welcome........................................................... 2 Programming................................................... 3 Guests of Honor............................................... 4 LAX Marriott..................................................... 12 Dealers Room.................................................. 14 Art Show.......................................................... 15 Events............................................................... 16 Fun Stuff........................................................... 18 Advertising ....................................................... 19 Policies............................................................. 20 Registration...................................................... 22 23 Membership.................................................... 25 Things to Do.................................................... 26 Committee....................................................... CONTENTS Hello! We’re so excited to have the opportunity to plan and coordinate this year’s World Fantasy Convention. On behalf of our entire team, we’d like to thank you for being an early supporter of this year’s convention, and we hope to see you this October. For those of you who aren’t yet a World Fantasy 2019 attendee or supporter, consider what you’d be missing out on if you don’t join us. For starters, an amazing Guest of Honor list. We’re so proud to feature not one but three talented writers, Tad Williams, Sheree Renée Thomas and Margo Lanagan. Add in to that mix, the fantastic work of artist Reiko Murakami and the editorial legacy of Beth Meacham. They, along with our esteemed toastmaster Bob Silverberg, will complement a lineup of guest speakers to be announced a bit later down the road. But that’s not all. In keeping with the long history of fabulous World Fantasy events before us, we’ll have a top-notch program, a high- quality art show and a fully stocked dealers room. We’re working with a team of committee heads and volunteers with extensive experience in running many local Los Angeles area events; each of them brings their own skills and talents into the mix. What we hope we’ll end up with is a World Fantasy to remember: an event befitting the gold and silver color palette in our publicity and social media. So whether you’re fully invested in joining us, or considering taking the plunge, we look forward to welcoming you to our home town in sunny Southern California, to show you some Los Angeles hospitality and celebrate fantasy noir in style! WELCOME 2 FANTASY NOIR is a relatively new genre and has gained significant popularity in recent years.Sometimes described as “magical cities in decay,” noir’s combination of urban grime and sleazy glamour brings a realistic and deliciously nasty flavor to the fantasy genre. Fantasy Noir blends the setting, characters and plot structure of a Hardboiled Detective/Occult Detective mystery story with the more colorful elements of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Noir heroes are often extremely flawed or bad people or – on occasion – an honest cop or hero figure whose morality is distinctly at odds with the way the world works. Flawed protagonists are often motivated by greed, lust, anger, and revenge as much as higher motives. When they do something genuinely noble, it can be with great reluctance. A hero’s honesty and nobility often results in horrific personal consequences for himself and others. Participating in our programming is a great way to get involved with the World Fantasy Convention program. Interested in being a panelist or reading your work? It just takes a minute to fill out our Program Participation Form. Even if you let us know you want to be on programming when you registered, this will give us additional information to better match you with our programming. Have a suggestion for a program item, whether or not you want to appear on it, we want to hear from you. The Program Suggestion Form is a great way to get your idea to us. Both forms are online and can be accessed via our website’s Programming page at wfc2019.org. PROGRAMMING 3 Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide, in twenty-five languages. His considerable output of epic fantasy and science fiction book- series, stories of all kinds, urban fantasy novels, comics, scripts, etc., have strongly influenced a generation of writers. Tad is currently immersed in the creation of ‘The Last King of Osten Ard’, planned as a trilogy bookended by two shorter novels. He, his family and his animals live in the Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house. Reach him on Twitter at @tadwilliams @mrstad GUESTS 4 Reiko Murakami is a U.S. based concept artist and illustrator specializing in surreal fantasy art. With her expressive gesture drawings she focuses on capturing moments filled with unspeakable emotions. In 2013 she started a series called Resonance, a project that depicts complex emotional reactions through metaphorical representation of a figure. Her work has been exhibited at Nucleus Portland, Krabjab Studio, Light Grey Art Lab and published in Spectrum, Infected by Art, ArtOrder Invitational: The Journal, Exposé, 2D Artist, and many others. Visit her website at: reikomurakami.com GUESTS 5 Sheree Renée Thomas is an award- winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and conjure, her roots in Memphis, and in the genius culture created in the Mississippi Delta. Sheree’s stories and poetry explore ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. She is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press), honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review and longlisted for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and of Shotgun Lullabies (2011), described as “a revelatory work like Jean Toomer’s Cane.” Thomas edited the two Dark Matter (Hachette) black speculative fiction volumes that first introduced W. E. B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction, winning two World Fantasy Awards (2001, 2005). Her work appears in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including Sycorax’s Daughters, Do Not Go Quietly, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, Memphis Noir, Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks, Afrofuturo(s), GUESTS 6 Ghost Fishing: Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, The Ringing Ear, Apex Magazine, FIYAH Magazine, Callaloo, Fireside Quarterly, African Voices, Jalada, Strange Horizons, Blacktasticon, Mojo Rising: Contemporary Writers, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Stories for Chip: Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, 80! Memories and Reflections On Ursula K. Le Guin, and Harvard’s Transition. She is the Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora (Illinois State University, Normal), the Founding Editor of MOJO: Journal of the Black Speculative Arts Movement, and the co-editor of Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue (Rosarium). Honored with fellowships from Breadloaf Environmental, the Millay Colony of Arts, Smith College, the New York Foundation of the Arts, VCCA, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Tennessee Arts Commission among others, Thomas’s multigenre writing explores the hidden wonders in the invisible. Her stories have received Notable Mention in the Year’s Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Honorable Mention in several volumes of the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. Her editorial work uncovered a legacy of over a century of black science fiction writing and helped launch the careers of some of the most exciting new voices in the field. Look for her first all-fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues, forthcoming from Third Man Books in 2020. Reach her on Twitter at @blackpotmojo Facebook/ Instagram @shereereneethomas GUESTS 7 Margo Lanagan has been publishing fiction for nearly thirty years. After an apprenticeship in teen romance, junior fiction-with-a-dash-of-fantasy and gritty-realist YA, she completed her move into fantasy writing by attending the Clarion West workshop in 1999. The stories she wrote there formed much of her first collection, White Time. But it was her second, Black Juice, containing the story “Singing My Sister Down”, that attracted wide attention. It won a Victorian Premier’s Award, two Aurealis and two Ditmar awards, two World Fantasy Awards (for Best Short Story and Best Collection), was a Michael L Printz Honor Book and made the Tiptree honor list, and was shortlisted in two other premier’s awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Stoker, International Horror Guild and Seiun awards. GUESTS 8 Further collections followed; Red Spikes, Yellowcake, Cracklescape, and two mostly-reprints compilations, Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, and Phantom Limbs. Margo’s World Fantasy Award-winning novel Tender Morsels, a reworking of the Grimm brothers’ “Snow White and Rose Red”, came out in 2008. She published a novella about selkies, “Sea Hearts”, in Coeur de Lion’s X6 novellanthology in 2009, which won her a fourth World Fantasy Award. She later developed the story into the novel Sea Hearts, published as The Brides of Rollrock Island in the US and the UK. From 2015 to 2018 she published, in collaboration with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti, the New York Times-bestselling YA fantasy