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CONTENTS WELCOME Hello! Hello! and celebrate fantasyand celebrate noir in style! sunny California, Southern to show you some Los hospitality Angeles the plunge, we look to forward welcoming you to our home town in whetherSo you’re fully invested in joining us, or considering taking the gold and silver color in palette our publicity and social media. we’ll end up with is aWorld to remember: an event befitting them brings their own skills and talents into the mix. What we hope experience in running many local Los area Angeles events; each of with ateam of committee heads and volunteers with extensive showquality and afully art stocked dealers room. We’re working Fantasy events before us, we’ll have atop-notch program, ahigh- that’sBut not all. Inkeeping with the of long fabulous World down road. the complement alineup of guest speakers to announced be a bit later They, along with our toastmaster Silverberg, esteemed Bob will Reikoof artist Murakami and the editorial of Meacham. legacy Beth Thomas and . in to Add that mix, the work feature not one but talented three Tad writers, Williams, Renée Sheree us. For an amazing starters, of Honor Guest list. We’re so proud to supporter, consider what you’d missing be out on if you don’t join For those of you who aren’t yet aWorld Fantasy 2019 or attendee year’s convention, and we hope to you see this October. entire team, we’d like to thank you for being an of early supporter this coordinate this year’s . behalf On of our We’re so excited to to have plan and the opportunity 2 Fantasy Noir is a relatively new 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 . Noir heroes are often extremely flawed or bad people or – on occasion – an honest cop or 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.

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Programming page at wfc2019.org. PROGRAMMING 3 is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide, in twenty-five . His considerable output of epic fantasy and science fiction book- series, stories of all kinds, 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 Visit her website at: reikomurakami.com her Visit and many others. Invitational: Journal, The 2D Exposé, Artist, ArtOrder by Art, Infected and published Lab in Spectrum, Studio, Light Art Grey exhibited Nucleus at been has Portland, work Krabjab Her through of afigure. metaphorical representation reactions complex emotional called depicts Resonance, that aproject filled unspeakable with emotions. 2013 In aseries started she drawings focuses she on capturing gesture moments expressive and illustrator specializing her With in fantasy surreal art. Murakami Reiko is a U.S. based concept artist is aU.S. based 5

GUESTS GUESTS Sheree Renée Thomas Renée Sheree the Writingthe Afrofuturo(s), of Brooks, Gwendolyn Fantasy, Noir, Memphis Revise Psalm: the Work Celebrating Dreaming: Been Postcolonial Long So ScienceFiction & journals, including ’s Quietly, Go Daughters,Not Do in numerous appears work anthologies andHer literary World Fantasytwo Awards (2001, 2005). introduced W. E. Bois’s Du B. as science work fiction, winning black volumes speculative fiction first that (Hachette) Matter like Toomer’s Jean Cane.” Dark two the edited Thomas of Shotgun Lullabies (2011), as “a described work revelatory and for longlisted 2016 the Tiptree, James Jr. Award, and Press), aPublishers with Review Weekly honored Starred Tree the Under author is of the Sleeping She of (Aqueduct Life circumstances. facing extraordinary people ordinary explore Delta. Sheree’s and poetry stories Memphis, and in genius the in Mississippi the created and , natural science and conjure, in roots her winning writer, fiction poet, and editor. is inspired work by Her 6 is an award- an is S Transition. Harvard’s Guin, and Le K. Ursula On Delany, and Reflections Memories 80! Conjure for Chip: Stories, Stories Tribute to SamuelR. Writers, Rising: Mojo Mojo:Blacktasticon, Contemporary Voices, African Quarterly, Jalada, Horizons, Strange Ear, Magazine, FIYAH , Callaloo, Fireside Fishing:Ghost Anthology, Eco-Justice Poetry Ringing The Instagram @shereereneethomas onTwitterReach her @blackpotmojo at Facebook/ in 2020. Books from Third Man forthcoming all-fiction collection, for Blues, first Look her Nine Bar new voices in field. the exciting of someof launch most the helped careers the and of black writing of science over fiction acentury Fantasy &Horror. uncovered editorial work Her alegacy in several Mention Honorable volumes of Year’s the Best Year’sthe ScienceFiction &Fantasy American and Best invisible. in have Notable Mention received stories Her multigenre writing explores the hidden in wonders the Commission among Thomas’s others, Tennessee Arts Cave Canem Foundation, VCCA, and the of Arts, the College, Smith York New the Colony of Arts, Foundation fellowshipswith Environmental, from Breadloaf Millay the Waters:the Tales (Rosarium). Blue of Deep the Honored Movement, of Trouble co-editor and the Speculative Arts Foundingthe Editor of MOJO: of Black the Journal (Illinois Diaspora University, State in African the Normal), he is the Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts Editor of Associate ishe Obsidian: the &Arts Literature 7

GUESTS 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, , containing the story “”, 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 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 -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 , the New York Times-bestselling YA fantasy action adventure series Zeroes (Zeroes, Swarm, and Nexus). Margo’s short stories have been widely anthologized and her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She has served on several significant Australian book award judging panels, and on the Literature Board of the Council for the Arts. And she has taught extensively, including three times at the Clarion South workshop, twice at Clarion West and once at Clarion UCSD. Margo lives in Sydney, Australia. GUESTS 9 GUESTS Yarbro and . Jane Yarbro and Tarr, Judith Sheffield, Charles Vance, Jack Chelsea Quinn Rawn,Steven Melanie Gould, Kress, Nancy Randy Henderson, Brin,David , Constantine, Storm Goldstein, Lisa Robinson, , William Mike Brotherton, Gibson, Ford, Pat Cassutt, Michael Murphy, Bear, Greg Stanley Kim M. , Ken Scholes, Will Monette, John Sarah Shetterly, Card, Cecelia Holland, Scott Lake,Orson Jay Elizabeth Bear, Anthony, are with worked has Piers Beth authors the Among Tor, home in from her Arizona. 1985 through 1989. as an Editor Executive now works She for Berkeley,Books, and Tor, was she editor where in chief from for worked has Ace She fantasy editor years. for more 30 than Beth Meacham Beth 10 has been a science fiction and ascience fiction been has Toastmaster Toastmaster Robert h surrounded by exotic plants. exotic by surrounded in live H world made famous made world in Valentine’s Lord Castle. (2013),of Majipoor onthe set of anew stories collection is Tales book recent volumes His most Press. by Subterranean published in have of nine work, been years sixty nearly and Valentine covering stories, Pontifex. short His collected Chronicles, Majipoor Valentine’s Cycle: Lord Castle, Majipoor Inside, ofDying Skulls, Book The volumes three and the of the are Nightwings, titles known his best languages. Among into translated forty have been and stories His books of America. by ScienceFiction the Writers Master as aGrand designated Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, was and in 2004 winner awards, and of Hugo Nebula the was to named the is amany-timefor He his and fantasy science stories. fiction as been a professional writer since aprofessional 1955, writer as been widely known e and his wife Karen and an assorted population of cats population of cats e and his wife Karen and an assorted the in Francisco asprawling house San the Area Bay 11

GUESTS LAX MARRIOTT H W complementary wifi in the sleeping rooms. FeeAssessment (currently 1.5%). This rate includes Fee (currently $0.45), and aLos County Angeles Tourism local tax (currently 14%), California Tourism Assessment The room rate for 2019 is $149 night, per plus state and suites. junior rooms including 29 accessible rooms, 19 full suites, and 32 R 310-337-5358. hotel phone number is 310-641-5700, and their fax number is Municipal both Airport, of which are commercial The airports. and the Long Beach Hollywood Hope) Burbank (Bob Airport entrance.to the airport It’s also approximately 20 miles from offramp, and Airport is one of the hotelsBoulevard/LAX closest By car, it’s accessible via the 405 Freeway at the Century curbside. available airport the at shuttle complimentary via and is accessible Airport is only ablockMarriott of LAX east West Boulevard Century in Los Angeles, California. The T facility. Hotel, Los Airport Angeles a100% non-smokingMarriott The 2019 World Fantasy Convention will held be at the prevailing rate. prevailing Convention attendees; valet parking is also available at the he Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel is located Los at 5855 Airport Angeles he Marriott ecently renovated top to has 1,004 bottom, the Marriott guest otel parking is $15 day per self-parking for all World Fantasy ifi is also complementary in the hotel lobby.

12 Our program, Show, Art Room Dealers and all events will take H A to convention the center.) wireless in Internet the lobby service (note: wifi does not extend outdoor pool, jacuzzi, fitness facility, business center and free is aStarbucks shop Coffee in the lobby. The hotel also has an nightly recommended) and there (reservations from 5:00pm open for at 6:00am. breakfast Also, J.W.’s Steakhouse is open items sourced from local and California-based suppliers and is The Social Market restaurant/coffee Eatery shop features food and features many of the same meal options as in years past. over into the lobby; it’s open from 1:00pm to 1:00am daily, H Starbucks are all located on the lobby level (second floor).. Suite on the 16th floor. The hotel bar, restaurants and place on the ballroom level floor), (bottom with the Hospitality located on the Venue of page our website. impaired. ll public and function space is fully accessible to the mobility otel reservations are now open. The reservation link are is now open. reservation The otel reservations angar 18 is the Marriott’s bar/restaurant space that spills

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LAX MARRIOTT DEALERS ROOM Room C youIf to have our them any Dealers direct questions, please page. available onlineandlocatedonourwebsite The 2019 DealersRoomRulesandApplicationarenow (2) tables. two provided, willspace usually dealers limited be to than nomore to order accommodateIn in as possible as many the dealers $250.00 for athird table (if available) $200.00 for table asecond $150.00 6foot table for first the Room Rates Dealers to convention. must the tables buy at memberships working applications whose are persons and accepted the Dealers room. inspot dealers the is limited an application and submitting not guarantee does a numberdevoted The of tables and almost art. entirely to books WorldThe Fantasy Convention Room is and juried Dealers oordinato r, S andy C 14 ohen, a t d ealers@wfc20 's DealersRoom 19.org As World wish who Fantasy As is aprofessional conference, artists Joni Brill Dashoff, at [email protected] at Dashoff, Brill Joni I Show page. onourlocated websites Art 2019The Form are now Rules available and Entry online and for and pay shipping.members supporting WFC must be wish who to mail in their art artists and members WFC must be displaying All of artists $2000.00. show is sales 5% commissions in onsales Sales excess from art can discuss their work. convention artists where members T multiple copy items; is $1.00 fee the item. per Alley, will for there aPrint but Shop be will noArtist There be table artist) maximum per is (there atwo table is One $60.00 deep. show.art Tables long and are 2.5 6feet feet to art display 3D forWorld display and sale Fantasy in the art also 3D accepts (maximum bays artist) Eight per = two panels Four bay =one panels will panel $40.00 One cost Panels will byhigh. wide 4feet 3feet be for 2D art A shows. award art WFC winners,4WFC orexhibitors in 2of last the past of Honors, World Fantasy Guests Convention (WFC) are past process jury exempted from the by ajury. Artists approved show must be in art the to display and sell their art f you have questions, please our Art Show Director, ourf you have Art contact questions, please here will be the traditional art show for reception all will traditionalhere the art be rt Show Rates rt

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ART SHOW EVENTS eligible to nominate for 2019 the World Fantasy Awards. in atimely manner. changes,any address sowe can ballots to the get postal you P to of 2019 nominate the not but yet members convention. and will to mailed eligible those separately be Report Progress T A Ballots Ceremony Awards & Banquet social accounts. media convention in 2019 and announced website onthe and onour and are anmembership optional, additional cost. are notAwards Banquet included your with World Fantasy November of day convention. 3, the last the Tickets to the special dietary needs are accommodated. needs special dietary W D T lease emaillease r he nominationhe is included form hardcopy the with of this he annualhe World Fantasy will Awards Banquet onSunday, be ll registered 2017,ll registered 2018, and 2019 are members WFC etailed information and tickets will available be closer to the e will be working with the hotel the e will with to make working be with sure those that [email protected] by 15 April, 2019 with 16 Mass Signing The traditional mass autographing session and reception will be held on Friday evening, 1 November. Each member of World Fantasy Convention 2019 will be provided a name tent and table space so that those who wish may sign autographs.

If you would like to be listed on our autographers’ map, we will have a table at the convention where you can select a pre- assigned location. We will place your name plate at the table you choose.

The sign-up table will be near registration.

Scheduled Hours Thursday: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Friday: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

If you prefer to select your seat when you arrive at the mass autographing session instead of signing up ahead of time, we will follow the WFC tradition of providing a name tent for each member of the WFC 2019 on a table near the entrance of the ballroom.

There will be plenty of table spaces throughout the room so that members who wish to sign autographs will be able.

The mass signing will continute until 11:00 PM, or until the signers and autograph seekers are done. As always, we’ll have the usual nibbly bits and beverages as well. EVENTS 17 Book Bags All attending members of World Fantasy Conventions receive a complimentary bag of genre books that have been donated by publishers or authors. The contents of each bag is luck of the draw but there is one exception to this rule. If you join us at the hotel on the pre-convention Wednesday afternoon and help us stuff those bags for at least three hours you will earn the privilege of filling your own book bag. There will be a table at the convention where you may place the books you do not want and exchange them for ones on the table that you would prefer.

Interested in providing books for the bags? Please contact [email protected] for more information. Hospitality World Fantasy Convention 2019 will have the traditional, well stocked Hospitality Suite located in the hotel’s former Concierge Suite, opening on Wednesday evening. Hours will be decided upon and posted to the website as we get closer to the convention. Parties We have two hospitality suites for parties this year and they will be available Friday, Saturday and Sunday with morning, afternoon and evening times available.

Full information and reservation forms will be available on our website by the end of May 2019. FUN STUFF 18 Inside front cover (color only) $1200 Souvenir Book Book Souvenir org for rates and availability. fororg rates ads@wfc2019. at us directly contact Please Reports. Progress We in our do accept alimited number of advertisements Reports Progress us [email protected]. at contact any you toIf need additional free feel infomormation please In $850 Qu Ha Full Page (all Rates dollars): in US rates Advertising due by 1October, 2019. De hardcopy No ads. 300. at suggested is 8.5X11 is PDF. format inches and preferred Minimum is DPI horizontal, youFinished out orworked with as needed. page Full is 8.5X11 page vertical, can be pages and partial for our Souvenir orders Book. advertising 2019The World Fantasy Convention is now accepting adline for reservation is 15adline for reservation September, 2019 final with ad side back coverside back (color only) $1200 Size Color Black & White &White Black Color Size fpg $500 lf page re $300 arter 19 $275 $150 $475

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nding Current Membership list contains the names of World Fantasy Convention 2019 member who have joined since our Progress Report 1 and did not opt-out of being publicly listed. If you think your name should be on this list or if a correction or change is needed, please contact Elayne Pelz at [email protected]

AndyHat Franklin Coleman Rebecca Fowler Maria Alexander Lawrence Connolly Lisa Freitag E.C. Ambrose Tina Connolly Jim Freund Kat Avgeli Catherine Cooke John R. Fultz Evelyn Baker Elizabeth Crowens Sheila Gilbert Chris Cunnington Mel Gilden Jerry Benner Kathleen Curcio Len Berry Dameon Tanya Karen Gough Carina Bissett Galen Dara Vittorio Grace Stephen Blackmoore Peter Halasz RJ Blain Julie C. Day Summer Hanford Ted Bloch Ingrid de Beus Maryelizabeth Hart Book Universe Minion Daniel Delgado Miryam Hassell David Boop Jennifer DellaZanna Natalie Hassell Guest of Bougher Kevin Denelsbeck Tristin Hassell Lynn Bougher JoAnn Diaz Tyler Hayes Gerald Brandt Faith Dincolo Alyc Helms Evan Braun S.B. Divya Harry Henderson Jennifer Brinn Scott Drakeford S. P. Hendrick Alec Brownie Denise Dumars JL Henry Willy Brownie Cliff Dunn Pamela Jean Herber Troy Carrol Bucher Sarah Beth Durst Nancy Holder Mark Bukovec Richard Dutcher Joseph Hoopman Evan Buntrock Shayne Easson D. Geordie Howe Anne-Marie Bush Laurie Edison Les Howle Daniel Campisi Chris Logan Edwards Christopher Husberg Amy Carpenter Brian Emerich Amy Jacoby Brenda Carre Sheila Finch Geoffrey Jacoby Ann Chamberlin Bayla Fine Kathleen Jennings Bert Chanberlin Jazon Dion Fletcher Danian Darrell Jerry Kat Clay Rhys Ford Marsha Jones Sarah Clemens Susan Forest MEMBERSHIP 23 MEMBERSHIP J.W. Parente Palwick Susan Chrome Oxide Ochse Weston Yvonne Navarro Reiko Murakami Morgan Luoisa Chase Moore Kathleen Monin Jr. Modesitt L.E. Catherine Modesitt McQuaid Sheila Cadence McKinnon Joe McKersie McCoy Heddy Tom McCorkell Sheila McClune McClune Keith McAllister Rich McAllister Linda Maxwell Matt Matthews Julie Martin A. of Guest Martin Anya Maresca Ryan Marshall Lyon Shaun Stephanie Loree Lee L. Corry LeBlanc Glennis Ronald Larson Krenkel Jason Krasnoff Barbara Trina King Kilworth Douglas Garry Ketter Greg Kerr Katharine Kent Malissa Kelly J. Laura Keenan K.D. Kavanaugh Diane Jones Stephen Graham Vivian Parker Parker Vivian KT WagnerKT Kveta Vojkovska Villafranca Vincent V. of Villafranca Guest Vick Edd Valdron D.G. Tom Underberg Turville-Heitz Meg Tom Laurie Todaro TN Todaro Lillian G. Thompson Mary RenéeSheree Thomas Theriault Mireille Patrick Swenson Sundberg Amy Subias M.R. Stirling S.M. Stirling Jan Paul Stevens Sorg Arley Somerstein Rodney Spark Smith Anna ClaireRosemary Smith Smeds Dave Slatter Angela Sharon Shinn Secker Erik Schaubert Lancelot Ruiz Alex J. Roy Carter Rochnik Karen Ring Donna Riddell Rob Daren Redekopp Tim Powers PowersSerena Porter Mason Pontecorvo Meg Pincus Michelle Pearlman Laura P eter D. Pautz eter 24 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Alvaro Zieja Joe YountLisa Wollheim Betsy Winston Shell Susan Winston Jennifer Winnig Cliff Willmot Jeff Tad Williams Willett Edward Willard Stone Wilkins Deborah Wiener Robert Wallace Tinatsu Wallace Krista aquarium and view heckof one agreat sunset. at low at seashells and tide. collect There’s also apier an with beach-front bikepaved orjust roll path up your legs pant America’s abike orrent estate for real expensive the most &kayakboard rentals. highlights lifeguards, aplayground, areas, and paddle BBQ swimminga separate &wading in area calm that waters harbor, Reycraft del is also Marina home to Mother’s Beach else doesn’t in world. that vibe the anywhere exist you can discover alternative a or simply experience watch to –where place in people SoCal and simply best THE tellers, home of the skate boarding,Muscle Beach, fortune Beach, Venice is probably more famous Boardwalk - for its called People’s The Venice (& -Often Boardwalk) Beach shoreline in US. the some of best the can shake even afantasy at, stick not to of mention 3-miles amusement-park-on-a-pier, than you and more restaurants S Marriott. are visiting. are are a few convienient that Here to LAX the allow bonfires. bonfires. allow to aero enthusiast in andthe is of CA only one the beaches making for it ideal from LAX path takeoff the beneath directly D M M Catch Some Beach Time anta -Tourist Monica –major shopping, an ockweiler State Beach -3-1/2 Beach State ockweiler located beach miles of perfect anhattan Beach - Stroll the Stand home to some of North -Stroll home Stand to the some of North Beach anhattan America’s small- man-made Rey del largest arina -North 25 while you

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