Einblatt! May 2006 Calendar SF Writers' Workshop. Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth from local http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2/ publisher Fedogan & Bremer is on the à Tues, May 2, 7PM. North Country 2005 Stoker Award preliminary ballot for Gaylaxians book discussion - Drag à Sun, May 21, 2-5PM. Ladies best anthology Queen of Elfland edited by Sewing Circle. Terry Garey's, 3149 Lawrence Schimel. Betsy's Back Park Ave S, Mpls. Cats, no guns. Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys is #4 hc Porch, 5447 Nicollet Ave S, Mpls. FFI: 612-824-5157 bestseller on April Locus list; also #8 hc on FFI: Andrew Bertke, 612-387-8265, Borders/Waldenbooks list in same issue à Tues, May 23, 6:30PM. [email protected] Speculations Reading Series Michael Merriam sold his spec fic poem "In the Void" to The Shantytown Anomaly #3. à Tues, May 2. Geeks Read. Wicked sponsors Michael Merriam. by Gregory Maguire. Dreamhaven, 912 W Lake St, Mpls. pb=mass market paperback. hc=hardcover. www.misfit.org/geeksread/ FFI: 612-721-5959, tp=trade paperback nf=nonfiction. [email protected] coll=collection. anth=anthology. r=reissue à Wed, May 3, 7:00PM. Geek Physique @ Como Lake, St. Paul à Tues, May 23, 8:15PM. After- Conventions (Meet outside the Lakeside reading gathering. Dulono's Pizza, Pavillion) 607 W Lake St, Mpls. May 12-14 To Be CONtinued 5, Downers www.misfit.org/geekphysique/ Grove, IL GoH: Aaron Douglas, Weta à Thurs, May 25, 11:59PM. June Workshop, Robert J. Sawyer, Javier Grillo- à Sat, May 6, 11:30AM-?. MISFITS Einblatt Deadline! Marxuach, Bob Eggleton, Larry Elmore. Scavenger Hunt. FFI: http://www.2becontinued.com/ Advance Warning www.misfit.org/scavengerhunt/ May 26-29 Balticon 40, Baltimore, MD. GoH: Minn-StF Meetings: June 3rd & 17th à Sat, May 6, 1-2PM. Lyda Neil Gaiman, Lisa Snellings-Clark, Lorraine a' Malena, Gene Wolfe. http://balticon.org/ Morehouse (writing as Tate Hallaway) signs Tall, Dark & Dead. Birthdays: June 9-11 DucKon XV, Naperville, IL GoH: Uncle Hugo's, 2864 Chicago Ave S, 1: Joel Rosenberg; 3: David Cargo; 8: Jo Walton, Theresa Mather, Jordin Kare, Brendan Lonehawk, Keith R.A. DeCandido. Mpls. Thomas Keeley, Todd McInroy; 11: http://www.duckon.org/ g Sat, May 6, 1PM. Minn-StF Board Malcolm Heath, Michael Pins; 12: Carol Anndy Farwell; 13: Carol Kennedy, July 7-9. Convergence 2006. Sheraton Meeting. Carol Kennedy’s. FFI: any Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, MN. GoH: board member Ragnar Riley; 15: Jo Ann Johnson; 19: Scott Imes; 24: Mike Heinsohn, Lydia David Weber, Miles Teves, Kenneth Hite, g Sat, May 6, 4PM. Minn-StF Meeting. Nickerson; 25: Doc Bonewits; 28: Greg Weisman. Pre-reg deadline May 15. www.convergence-con.org Jonathan Adams & Carol Elizabeth Bendtsen, Ron Searby; 30: Kennedy's, 3328 Colfax Ave S, Tony Brust, Gregg Parmentier Aug 4-7. MythCon 37, Norman, OK. GoH: Mpls. FFI: 612-823-2784 Lois McMaster Bujold. www.mythsoc.org/mythcon37.html à Sun, May 7, 1:00-3:00PM. Crafter Announcements: Aug 11-13 Diversicon 14, Bloomington, MN Geek @ Crafty Planet. A Princess of Mars shows at The www.misfit.org/craftygeek/ GoH: Kelly Link (Pre-registration deadline: Playwrights Center, May 11 – June 4. July 14th, 2006) http://www.diversicon.org/ http://www.hardcovertheater.org/ à Fri, May 12. Read the Book, See Sept 1-3. SF3 - MN Multi Media Festival. the Movie. Fatherland by Robert Mark Richards will be chairing Minicon 42. Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, Harris. www.misfit.org/bookmovie/ Contact him for more info, MN. GOH: John Noble, Debi Derryberry, [email protected]. Daniel Falconer, Billy Boyd, Stephanie à Fri, May 19th 6:30PM. Tiptree Gannaway-Osborn, Ron Glass www.sf- The old Minn-StF Directory is being tossed Award reading with Eleanor 3.com Arnason and Jaye Lawrence. out. You should have received an opt-in DreamHaven, 912 W Lake St, Mpls. announcement in your mailbox. There will Oct 13-15 The Fargo Fantasy Festival: FFI: 612-823-6161, NOT be electronic submission of the opt-in ValleyCon 32, Fargo, ND GoH: William Shatner, Diane Duane & Peter Morwood, [email protected] form - see the instructions on the form. The form is available at Janny Wurtz, Don Maitz, Rowena. (Pre- g Sat, May 20, 4PM. Minn-StF mnstf.org/einblatt/2006_directory_form.pdf registration deadline: July 10) Meeting. Blaisdell Polytechnic, 3721 http://www.valleycon.com/ Blaisdell Ave S, Mpls, MN. Cats, Publishing News Oct 13-16 ICON 31, Cedar Rapids, IA GoH: smoking outside only. FFI: Lydia C. S. Friedman, Larry Price. Neil Gaiman, "In which an Entablature of Nickerson, 612-827-6521. http://www.mindbridge.org/icon/ Salamanders Performs a Myoclonic Can- à Sun, May 21, 12N. Twin Cities Can, and Mary Livingston is Discussed," Oct 20-22 Convivial, Minneapolis, MN (Pre- Speculative Fiction Writers Network essay in Polder: A Festschrift For John registration deadlines: April 17/August 27) Meeting and Group Read. Clute And Judith Clute (ed. Farra http://mnstf.org/convivial/ http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2/ Mendlesoh; Old Earth Books, 2006) Nov 10-12 WindyCon 33, Rosemont, IL GoH: Jack Zipes et al, The Norton Anthology Of Jack McDevitt, Stephan Martiniere, Jacob à Sun, May 21, 2PM. Twin Cities Weisman, Seth Shostak, Mark & Priscilla Speculative Fiction Writers Network Children's Literature: The Traditions In English (Norton hc, 2006) Olson. (Pre-registration deadline: October 13) http://www.windycon.org/ Feb 8-11, 2007 Capricon XXVII, Arlington Saturday every month, Board meetings rec.arts.sf.fandom, rec.arts.sf.announce Heights, IL GoH: Lois McMaster Bujold, Erin are typically the 1st Friday of the month. and mn.sf// Einblatt from July 95 to date is McKee, Cat Faber. (Pre-registration on the web at www.mnstf.org/einblatt/. deadline: December 31, 2006) Minn-STF web site at: www.mnstf.org/. Einblatt is distributed via e-mailing-list – http://capricon.org/capricon27/ Minicon web site at: sign up here or send e-mail to einblatt-list- www.mnstf.org/minicon/. Mar 2-4, 2007 MarsCon, Bloomington, MN [email protected] with the subject GoH: Don S. Davis, Gary Jones, Todd Gamesday Players: Board & card gaming ‘subscribe’. Lockwood, Eric Larson, Eleanor Arnason. almost every Friday evening. 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