World Fantasy Convention Progress Report #3
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Address Correction Requested Address CorrectionRequested Convention 2004 2004 Convention World Fantasy Tempe, AZ 85285-6665Tempe, USA C/O LepreconInc. P.O. Box26665 The 30th Annual World Fantasy Convention Progress Report #3 P 12 P 1 Leprecon Inc. presents World Fantasy Con 2004 Registration Form NAME(S) _____________________________________________________________ The 30th Annual ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________ CITY _________________________________________________________________ World Fantasy Convention STATE/PROVINCE _____________________________________________________ October 28-31, 2004 ZIP/POSTAL CODE _____________________________________________________ Tempe Mission Palms Hotel COUNTRY ____________________________________________________________ Tempe, Arizona USA EMAIL _______________________________________________________________ PHONE _______________________________________________________________ Author Guest of Honour FAX __________________________________________________________________ Gwyneth Jones PROFESSION (Writer, Artist, Editor, Fan, etc.) ______________________________________________________________________ Artist Guest of Honor _______ Supporting Membership(s) at US$35 each = US$_________ Janny Wurts _______ Attending Membership(s) at US$_______ each = US$_________ _______ Banquet Ticket(s) at US$53 each = US$ _________ Editor Guest of Honor Entrees: Beef _________, Chicken _________, Fish _________, Vegetarian _______ Ellen Datlow Total US$___________ _______ Check: We accept travelers checks, personal checks, business checks, cashiers checks or Publisher Guest of Honor money orders for the total amount above. Make it payable to WFC2004. Betty Ballantine _______ Credit Card: We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express. Charge may show Leprecon Inc. as recipient. Leprecon Inc. is dba WFC2004. Card Number ___________________________________________________________ Toastmistress Guest of Honor 3 or 4 digit auth code ____________ Expiration _______________________________ Jennifer Roberson Name as it appears on your card (please print) ______________________________________________________________________ World Fantasy Convention 2004 Signature ______________________________________________________________ c/o Leprecon Inc. Payment also accepted online via PayPal. Visit http://www.paypal.com and send payment to pay- P.O. Box 26665 [email protected] or visit our website http://www.worldfantasy2004.org and click on Member- Tempe, AZ 85285-6665 USA ships. www.worldfantasy2004.org Mail this form to the address in the front of this progress report with your payment. Thank you! [email protected] 480-945-6890 P 2 P 11 tary shuttle available at the hotel. Once you arrive please give them a Guests-of-Hono(u)r call from the hotel switchboard near baggage claim or call their direct number listed under the Hotel section of this PR. Details about our guests can be found in Progress Reports #1 and #2. If you did not receive a copy, please contact us or download the PDF We have arranged for discounted airfare using America West Airlines. version from our website under Publications. It is based here in Phoenix and many non-stops are available to major cities around the country. For folks from the UK British Airways has non-stops from London to Phoenix and there’s an affiliation between Art Show the two airlines. Please see our website for details, send us an email or give us a call. As of press time we have the following artists in our show: If you are renting a car from the airport, then take the eastbound exit to Sylvana Anderson-Gish, Alan F. Beck, R. Merrill Bollerud, Alan M. State Route 202 east. The fastest way to get to the hotel is to exit Clark, Kevin Clark, Ed Cox, Jessica Douglas, Brian Lee Durfee, Alan Scottsdale Rd., turn right (south), then just over the bridge turn right Gutierrez, Kathleen Hardy, Leslie D’Allesandro Hawes, Heather John- (west) on Rio Salado Parkway. The second light is Mill Ave. so turn son, Bob Keck, Kieona, Allen Koszowski, Mael, Don Maitz, Justin left (south). The hotel will be the first or second light on your left. The Miller, Monte M. Moore, Mai Q. Nguyen, John Picacio, Louise “Luna” first will take you into the west side parking lot and the second will take Rivera, Mark Rogers, Ralph J. Ryan, Nahria Sarkisova / Mark Maxey / you to the main entrance along the south edge. Valet parking is avail- Sevenwaters, April Sheppard, Abranda Sisson, Lisa Snellings-Clark, able from the latter side. All other sides are self-parking and compli- David Spacil, Nancy Strowger, Wendy Van Camp, Charles Vess, mentary for our event. If you are challenged by the booth person, just Doreen Webbert, Janny Wurts mention the convention. Please check our website for updates to this list. If you are driving to the convention, then from the north take I-17 south to I-10 eastbound. Continue on I-10 eastbound to SR202 eastbound and follow the directions above. From the south/east take I-10 west to Awards SR202 east, then follow the above directions. From the west take I-10 Progress Report #2 contained a list of World Fantasy Awards nominees. east to SR202 east and so on. Please visit our website for details or to download PR#2 under Publica- tions. If you are taking the train, you will find out that you can’t stop in Phoe- nix anymore. You’ll have to take the train to either Tucson or Flagstaff, then a bus will drop you off at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Air- Banquet port. From there you may contact the hotel about their free shuttle. The World Fantasy Awards Banquet and Ceremony will be held Sun- If you are arriving by bus, then Greyhound can deliver you to Tempe day October 31 at 1:00 P.M. The banquet requires a separate ticket to station. From there it is a short walk to the hotel. Contact Greyhound participate while the ceremony that follows is open to all attending for details. members. Seating for the ceremony will include gallery seating along the edges of the walls. For the best view please participate in the ban- A word to the wise. Arizona remains on Mountain Standard Time quet. (GMT-7) all year round. This means for most of the convention we will be the same time as California. However, daylight savings time We are limited to 200 tickets for the banquet. Tickets cost US$53 per ceases on Sunday of the convention and we shall be the same time as person. When purchasing your banquet ticket please specify which en- Denver on Sunday. Keep this in mind when planning your departure. trée (beef, chicken, fish or vegetarian) you wish at the time of purchase. P 10 P 3 Any purchases neglecting a selection will default to vegetarian. You side, Michael A. Wiener, Robert Wiener, Guest Of Robert Wiener (2), Deb- may indicate your choice on the form or letter you mail in unless paying orah Wilkins, Lisa Will, Karen Williams, Walter L. Williamson, Craig Willis, by PayPal via our website. If paying online, please add the entrée se- Mike Willmoth, David Willoughby, F. Paul Wilson, Laurel Wiwter, Eric lection into the comment field before processing your purchase. You Witchey, Susan Wolven, Andy Wolverton, Guest of Susan Wolven, Simon can always email us as well, but we’ll need to notify the hotel about a Wood, Chris Wrenn, Janny Wurts, Scott Wyatt, Catherine F. Yankovich, Chel- sea Quinn Yarbro, Ygor’s Books, Doselle Young, Janine Young, Kate Yule, week out on who gets what entrée. Karen Zimmerman. Tickets are going rapidly. Please contact us if you don’t find the pur- chase option online since we’ll have to remove it when we are close to Programming filling the room. For purchases when we are nearly full we will use the date/time stamp on postmarks or online purchases to determine ticket The program is pretty well set and participants should have been con- purchase order. When contacting us for online purchases when we are tacted by now. If you have not heard from us about participation, nearly full we will give you the website address for doing so. If you please let us know. World Fantasy Conventions always have more peo- have to contact us for online information, then we’ll use the date/time ple willing to serve than can be accommodated, so we expect partici- of the contact instead. pants to be limited to one event and not all interested parties can expect to participate. Progress Report #2 contained details on the exact meal choices for each entrée. Please visit our website for details under Awards. The final schedule will be posted to our website once complete. Major events include Opening Ceremonies Thursday evening, Autograph Re- ception Friday evening, Artists Reception Saturday evening and World Charity Auction Fantasy Awards Banquet and Ceremony Sunday afternoon. For those making travel plans we shall begin the schedule Thursday 2:00 P.M. This year we shall hold a charity auction benefiting the Charles L. and the last program item will follow the awards ceremony Sunday af- Grant Emergency Medical Fund. 100% of the proceeds will go to his ternoon ending by 5:00 P.M. fund. Charles L. Grant is a three time World Fantasy Award winning author who has been diagnosed with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmo- nary disease). As a result he will probably have to rely on bottled oxy- Notices gen for the rest of his life. Charles and his wife, Kathryn Ptacek, are without health insurance and the fund has been set up to help them with Artwork in this progress report is copyright by Janny Wurts and used their ongoing medical expenses. For more details please visit his web- by permission. site http://charlesgrant.novelhost.net and for a listing of his works please visit the Internet Speculative Fiction Database http://www.isfdb. LepreCon is copyright by Leprecon Inc., an Arizona non-profit corpora- org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Charles_L._Grant tion. Leprecon Inc. is doing business as (dba) World Fantasy Conven- tion 2004. Our auction will be held Saturday at 3:00 P.M. Program Guides for the auction will be available at Registration.