Letter from the Chair

Dearest LTUE-ians, Another Presidents’ Day weekend is upon us, and I am thrilled that I get to spend it with you. A few years ago, I took a job out of state in possibly the least bookish and un-nerdiest city ever. After living in a town that recently announced its new mayor with a Star Wars parody, I found myself alone. I didn’t feel like I had much in common with anyone. I struggled to connect with people, and I began to wonder if maybe I was delusional for thinking that anyone else might like dragons, monsters, and spaceships. But every year, I made the trek back to Utah, and every year, I was delighted to rediscover my people. People who love to read, write, draw, and game all kinds of lovely weirdness. You, you glorious land mermaids, gave me hope. You gave me a place, and for that, I am everlastingly grateful. I hope that you too find friends old and new this year at LTUE. Flash forward to this year, and as chair, the LTUE community came through for me once again. Nothing would have been possible without the LTUE committee behind me. Every panel, poster, and pancake here crawled out of the brain of one of our volunteers, and I am honored to work with such talented and dedicated individuals. I especially want to thank Kate for raising the bar on all fronts, Jenna for being willing to tame a monster of a track, Kevin for putting up with our eccentricities, Mike for pulling order from chaos, and Elizabeth D. for humoring my attempt to get the band back together. Lastly, and most importantly, thank you to the families, friends, and roommates of our committee members for supporting us through morning meetings and midnight emails. Thank you for supporting LTUE and each other. Most of all, thank you for coming.

Alicia McIntire Chair, Life, the Universe, and Everything 36

Symposium Committee

Chair Alicia McIntire Guest Coordinator Kate Hatcher Secretary Mike Bishop Pitch Coordinator Luke Petersen Historian Erin Kearsley Publications Coordinator Marny K. Parkin Schedule Coordinator Erin Kearsley Recordings Logan Kearsley Academics Marny K. Parkin Registration Coordinator Mike Bishop Books Clorinda Madsen Social Media Elizabeth Doman, Alicia McIntire, JJ Safley Create Your Own World Alpheus Madsen Sponsorship Coordinator Elizabeth Doman Gaming Aaron Porter Venue Liaisons Ryan Noorda, Dave Doering Graphic Arts Erin Kearsley Vendor Liaison Troy McIntire Professional Development Luke Petersen Volunteer Coordinator Diana Parkin Theater and Media Arts Nick Mills Webmaster Kevin J. Rice Writing JJ Safley Legal Counsel Steve Setzer Art Show/Artist Alley Troy McIntire Staff Ben Hatcher, Travis Kearsley, Dee Ann Larsen, Attendee Coordinator Elizabeth Doman Joe Monson, Ginny Smith, Elizabeth Vann-Clark Blog Coordinator Spencer Merrell

Anyone can join our staff. Students are especially needed, from both UVU and BYU. If you are interested in helping make the next symposium bigger and better, come to our first staff meeting for LTUE 37 on Saturday, March 3, at 10 am. Watch our Facebook page for location and more details.

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Orange Committee member Letter from the Chair 1 Yellow Volunteer Symposium Committee 1 Dark Blue Guests of Honor, Toastmaster, and Etiquette with the Pros 4 Special Guests Guests of Honor: Todd McCaffrey and Jo Walton 5 Toastmaster and Special Guests 5 Light Blue Panelists and presenters Art Show and Artists Alley 7 Green Vendors, Press Participant Bios 7 White Attendee Pitch Sessions 7 Listing of Events and Participants 18 Chairs Emeritus is indicated by the gavel icon in the upper What’s a Kaffeeklatsch? 19 right corner Mass Book Signing 33 Grid Schedule 22 Acknowledgments 42

Artists Alley Be Aware

The Artists Alley is a section of tables in the halls at LTUE Please review our Child Policy and Harassment Policy, as designed for artists to show off and sell their art. Come well as the hotel’s alcohol policy, located on our website at talk to artists and see them as they do their work! Art- http://ltue.net/policies/ ists participating in the alley will be working on their art while at the tables. Different artists will be present at different times, so be sure to check out the Artists Alley Vendor Room Hours throughout LTUE! Aspen Room

Thursday: 10 am to 6 pm Bardic Circle Friday: 9 am to 6 pm Saturday: 9 am to 6 pm Join your fellow bards each evening for memorable music. Bardic Circle (also known as Filking) has been a tradition since before hobbits walked Middle Earth. Folk songs and Art Show Hours poems have been set to music, changing lyrics at times Timpanogos Room to creatively fit science fiction and fantasy themes—thus, “filking.” Bring your guitar, lute, or simply your voice and Thursday: 11 am to 7 pm make musical magic with us. Participants may perform Friday: 9 am to 7 pm their own tunes or bring copies of music for fellow filkers Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm to join in a jolly sing-along.

Gaming Room Editors Booth Juniper Room

Eschler Editing will be doing short manuscript reviews Thursday: 10 am to 11 pm (up to 500 words) from noon to 4 pm every day at the Friday: 10 am to 11 pm table outside the Amphitheatre. Saturday: 10 am to 6 pm 3 Etiquette with the Pros

One question any symposium-goer inevitably asks is, When you want to meet the authors or artists, wait for “How do I talk to authors and artists?” Getting to know a good moment when they aren’t busy. If they are talking them takes a few common sense rules of etiquette that with someone else, wait patiently for them to finish, then will make the experience enjoyable for both of you. introduce yourself. Try to say something nice before you First, remember that the authors and artists are only fire away with criticism. Remember, they may be as shy human. Just because they write fantastic books or draw of meeting you as you are of meeting them. fabulous pictures doesn’t mean they are ready to be on Most importantly, don’t monopolize! Share with o­ thers stage at any moment. An author or artist may have just these marvelous people you’ve just met. Rather than say- had a lousy night or be suffering from something the sym- ing everything at once, try talking to them on several posium committee fed them at lunch. Don’t take it per- occasions. (Even your mother would rather hear from sonally if they don’t want to talk to you right then. you for three minutes once a week than for three hours Also, don’t try to dazzle them with your latest story once a year.) idea or pet project. Many are paid to critique material; Just remember to be courteous. Respect their privacy don’t expect them to do it for free. and respect their time. They have come to the symposium And don’t make the mistake that one convention to meet people, though, so don’t be afraid to approach attendee made when he tried to discuss the wage differ- them. That is why they came! ences between British and American actors with a main guest. We promise you, brilliant as they may be, authors and artists don’t know everything.

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4 Guests of Honor New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Nonfiction award forWhat Todd McCaffrey Makes This Book So Great. New York Times bestselling author Todd Johnson McCaf- She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the frey grew up in the world of science fiction and fantasy, food and books are much better. She gets bored easily so being the middle son of the late Nebula Grandmaster she tends to write books that are different from each other. Anne McCaffrey. She also reads a lot, enjoys travel, talking about books, and He first discov- eating great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and ered science fic- write a book every year. tion with Space Cat jowaltonbooks.com and was surprised (and delighted) to discover that his mother was also writing it. He Toastmaster learned to type at 12 in order to earn his first typewriter Charlie N. Holmberg so that he could Born in Salt Lake City, Charlie N. Holmberg is the author start writing on his of several (often romantic) fantasy novels, including the own. Between sidetracks into the US Army, boardgam- bestselling Paper Magician series. A RITA Award finalist, ing, software engineering and parenthood, he continued she majored in English and minored in editing at Brigham to write, making his first sale in 1986. Young University. Raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters He has collaborated on five Dragonriders of Pern® nov- els, written three solo Pern novels, and has written numer- who also have boy names, Charlie owns too many pairs of glasses and finally adopted a dog. ous short stories. His latest book, the science-thriller City charlienholmberg.com of Angels, about artificial intelligence (AI), has just come out from Wordfire Press. toddmccaffrey.org

Jo Walton Special Guests Jo Walton has published thir- teen novels, most Alan Bahr recently Thessaly. She has also pub- Alan Bahr is the lead designer and founder of Gallant lished three poetry Knight Games. Alan is a game designer best known for collections and an Planet Mercenary: The Roleplaying Game, based on essay collection, the space opera webcomic Schlock Mercenary. He’s the and her short story design lead on Tiny Frontiers, its expansion Tiny Fron- tiers: Mecha and Monsters, and the owner/operator of collection Starlings came out in Janu- Gallant Knight Games. He’s an avid fan of noir films, ary 2018. She won Arthurian mythos, smooth jazz, clever roleplaying games, the John W. Camp- and his amazing wife. bell Award for Best www.alanbahr.net, www.gallantknightgames.com

5 Susan Chang Susan Chang is a senior editor at Tor Books. She acquires and edits books for the Starscape middle grade and Tor Teen young adult imprints. She began her publishing career at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she worked for nine years before moving on to shorter stints at Hyperion Books for Children, and Parachute Publish- ing, a book packager. Susan joined Tor in 2004. Susan was born in Seoul, South Korea, and emigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was five years old. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Medi- eval and Renaissance Studies and lives in New York.

Myke Cole As a security contractor, government civilian and military officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun- terterrorism to Cyber Warfare to Federal Law Enforce- ment. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He recently disorder that requires the use of a service dog. Due to this, joined the cast of Hunted on CBS as part of an elite team she’s made a point of trying to heal through her art and of fugitive hunters. help those with anxiety and other mental illnesses learn MykeCole.com to focus with illustrated meditation cards and textured art made to be touched. She also studies crystal healing Larry Correia and the spiritual meaning of gemstones in order to create art that has a deeper meaning for her clients than just a Larry Correia is a New York Times bestselling and award- winning author or coauthor of a boatload novels and even simple painting. Her most recent publications include the more short stories. Empress card for 78 Tarot, and art for the reprint of The www.monsterhunternation.com Last Unicorn graphic novel. Both are due to come out next year. Check out her artwork at the Urban Arts Gallery in Jessica Douglas downtown Salt Lake City from February 6 to March 4 at the Once upon a Time exhibit. Jessica Douglas is a thirty-eight-year-old artist who has jessicamdouglas.com been in the industry since she was twelve. She struggled for a long time with mental illness issues and a genetic David Farland David Farland is an award-winning, New York Times Considering self-publishing? bestselling author who has penned nearly fifty science Considering ebooks? fiction and fantasy novels for both adults and children. He also works as a videogame designer, a screenwriter, Consider using a professional for your book design a movie producer, the coordinating judge of the L. Ron and ebook conversion—less hassle for you and a qual- Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest (one of the ity look for your book! Get a ­custom design for less world’s largest and most distinguished writing contests), than you would pay CreateSpace to do a basic design. and he has trained numerous other New York Times best­ Consider using ParkinCat Typography and Book Design selling authors through his writing workshops and vari- to help your book be the best it can be! ous classes. davefarland.com Typography.ParkinFamily.org

6 Art Show and Artists Alley Pitch Sessions

The LTUE Art Show displays a wide variety of art by art- Every year, LTUE hosts awesome agents and publishers ists both familiar to our community and taking their first who come to hear your story pitch, critique your query steps in showing their work. Participants in this year’s show letters, and look for their next bestseller. $20 buys you include a number of LTUE presenters & panelists, as well 10 minutes of individual attention from the agent or edi- as other local artists. After the panels, come by to see their tor of your choice. Sign-ups are online at Eventbrite.com. work in person—and maybe leave with a piece or two! Subject to change. Lock in your spot early! Astarabriarart, L. K. Blackham, Clark Chamberlain, Devon Dorrity, DragonsPainter, Chris Groesbeck, Lubov, Melinda Available Editors and Agents Mortensen, Charlie Pulsipher, Cara Stratton, Billy Tackett, Susan Chang, senior acquiring editor for Tor Teen Bobbie Berendson W., Xela P. Wright, Jemma M. Young, Kai- Stephanie Stein, editor with HarperCollins Children’s/HarperTeen tlund Zupanic (Virtual Pitch Session) Lisa Mangum, managing editor at Shadow Mountain Press Also be sure to stop by and say hello to the folks in the Future House Publishing Artists Alley, where local artists display their work while Immortal Works demonstrating their craft. Jolly Fish Press Anastasia Bolinder, Melinda Bosen, Alicia Dodson, Devon Dorrity, Rosemarie Dunn, Sarah Fearnley, Jared Garrett, Weslie Jensen, Alison Johnstun, Mike Lovins, Alicia McIntire, Carly Milligan, Angela Smith, Cara Stratton, Bobbie Berendson W., Jemma Young

Participant Bios

Shannon Babb is an earth scientist and commu- composing better prose on his blog The Story Kenna Blaylock graduated from Brigham Young nity educator who specializes in writing fan, his- Polisher, and critiques video games in his spare University with a major in English and a minor in torical, and science-based fiction. She volunteers time. You can find his stories inDeep Magic: “The editing. She had the opportunity to intern with two with the Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary, Wizard’s Granddaughter” appeared in the Octo- different acquisitions editors at Cedar Fort Pub- where she supports its education and search and ber 2016 issue, and another will be available in the lishing. Kenna is a managing editor for Jolly Fish rescue missions. She also is diagnosed with central forthcoming spring 2018 volume. He is blessed Press, looking for books with exciting plots, splen- auditory processing disorder and advocates for with the best wife and two adorable little boys. did writing, and engaging characters. She is an avid more characters with disabilities in mainstream storypolisher.blogspot.com reader, gamer, and writer with interests that cover fiction. many different fandoms and areas of knowledge. J. David Baxter. Participant in the 1997 NASA Jay Barnson has been a video game developer, Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center’s Break- Graham Bradley is an independent author-illus- software engineer, and author. By day, he now through Propulsion workshop. Working with trator of fiction for young readers. A professional develops traditional and virtual reality-based Richard Banuric on possibilities for low cost elec- truck driver by trade, he has worked as a long- training simulators, and develops indie com- trostatic propulsion. Has bachelors of applied hauler, a crane assistant, and a blast crew grunt. puter role-playing games and writes speculative science in applied electronics engineering tech- www.DreadPennies.com. fiction by night. His articles and short fiction nology from ITT Technical Institute. A propo- have appeared in several magazines and antholo- nent of quantum vacuum engineering to make J. Scott Bronson is an actor (Touched By an Angel, gies, and his first novel is due in early 2018 from possible star travel. utahspace.org A Town Has Turned to Dust, Stephen King’s The Stand, Immortal Works Press. rampantgames.com/blog dozens of plays), an award winning playwright Devin Bekins is the Lead Designer and VFX (2007 Association for Mormon Letters [AML] Brandon Barrus is an accomplished StarCraft supervisor of BYUtv’s Extinct series. Best Drama for Stones), and fictionist (WOTF shoutcaster, having gained over six million views vol. 12, Darkness on the Edge of Light, and AML Best C. David Belt served as a B-52 pilot in the US and eighteen thousand subscribers in the last two Novel runner-up for The Agitated Heart). years. He lives in West Valley, Utah, with his wife Air Force and as an air weapons controller in the and three children, and you can find his work on Washington Air National Guard. When he is Beth Buck’s work has been published by Pecu- both YouTube and Twitch. https://youtube.com/ not writing, he sings in the Mormon Tabernacle liar Press, Sukoon Magazine, and several others. falconpaladin Choir and works as a software engineer. He col- She usually writes about emergency prepared- lects and researches swords, axes, spears, maces, ness but prefers writing fantasy serials for Fic- Christopher Baxter works as an editor and a and other medieval weapons and armor (many of tion Vortex. Beth is also an acquisitions editor writer, offers tips on common writing errors and them Celtic). www.unwillingchild.com for Immortal Works Press. She has a black belt in

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Shaolin Kempo, a spinning wheel, and five chil- screenplay for Where the Red Fern Grows and won awards, and even snagged a couple of Emmy dren. ­bethbuckauthor.wordpress.com the TV movie On Our Own. After a break in nods. His epic indie science fiction film95ers went filmmaking, he returned as writer and director into international distribution and found fans all Dave Butler is a lawyer by background and a cor- of Drop Off, which was filmed in Southern Utah. around the world. TomDurham.com porate trainer and consultant by day. He also writes speculative fiction for all ages, including middle Ryan Decaria is the author of Devil in the Micro- C. K. Edwards was born in Utah in the summer reader fantasy (The Kidnap Plot), young adult sci- scope and host of the Meeple Nation Board Game of 1966. June, to be exact, which makes for one too ence fiction Crecheling( ), and adult action urban podcast. He writes fiction in the happy place many sixes if anybody’s counting. From fantasy fantasy (Rock Band Fights Evil) and steampunk between fantasy and science fiction, where mad to horror to urban fantasy, and even delving into (City of the Saints). Dave regularly travels to conven- science flourishes and it’s always a little gooey. Christmas short stories, he’s been writing for thirty tions as a panelist and speaker and to perform with On his podcast, Ryan reviews board games and years and plans to write for the rest of his life, which, his troupe, the Space Balrogs. davidjohnbutler.com discusses topics and issues about the board game if you believe the gypsy, will end next Saturday. world. madsciencefiction.com Blake Casselman graduated from the University Spencer Ellsworth has been writing since he of Utah’s film program, and works as a screen- Robert J Defendi was one of the writers for Sav- learned how. His work has been published and writer and a producer since 2006. An avid comic age Seas, Exalted, Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, is forthcoming at Tor.com, Lightspeed magazine, book reader, he is the co-writer/co-creator of the Stargate SG-1 roleplaying game, Spacemaster, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Michael Moorcock’s New independent graphic novel Devil’s Triangle. He also critically acclaimed setting The Echoes of Heaven. Worlds magazine, and many other places. The taught screenwriting, is the co-owner of Rare Leg- He was published in Writers of the Future XIX, first novel of his space opera trilogy Starfire was end Films, and is the co-writer and producer of When Darkness Comes, and several other antholo- released by Tor.com in 2017. He lives with his wife the award-winning comedy film,Adopting Trouble. gies. Death by Cliché was his first published novel. and three children in Bellingham, Washington, blakecasselman.com where he works as a teacher and administrator at Jolene DeFranco has worked as a K–8 librarian a tribal college on a Native American reservation. Ann Chamberlin has studied Hebrew, Arabic, for ten years and has been involved with librar- spencerellsworth.com Egyptian hieroglyphs, and ancient Akkadian ies as a volunteer or patron all of her life. She has as well as French and German. She has traveled been a book reviewer for the School Library Con- Dr. Dirk Elzinga is a professor of linguistics at across Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Syria, and nection magazine for six years. She regards sharing BYU. His professional interests are the docu- Jordan. She lives in an old farm house on nearly literature with and raising her family as her most mentation, description, and analysis of the native two acres near Salt Lake City. Ann is the author of important accomplishment. languages of Western North America, and the thirteen historical novels and a nonfictionHistory sound patterns of English. He has also designed Dave Doering is the founder of of Women’s Seclusion in The Middle East. Her tril- Life, the Universe, languages for film and for personal amusement. ogy set in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire and Everything, a writer and creator conference was on the bestsellers list in Turkey for over six based in Provo. He also started the Leading Edge Karen Evans has been writing sf/f with her hus- months. www.annchamberlin.com magazine at his alma mater Brigham Young Uni- band for more than ten years and enjoying the versity. It is one of the oldest student-run publica- roller-coaster. When not writing, she enjoys Clark Chamberlain spent over a decade working tions in the US. His successful career as a business crocheting, embroidery, and other busy-hand in journalism before making the switch to fiction. and technical writer stems from his work as editor activities so she can listen to the voices in her head. He is the editor-in-chief of Sterling and Stone. Not on the Leading Edge. Karen and her husband write for the Grantville only is Clark a full-time editor, he is also the co- Gazette, a shared universe created by Eric Flint in Dennis Dorrity is a designer and passionate fan- host of the Writership Podcast and the Book Editor the novel 1632, and have several stories in that mag- Show. In his spare time, Clark is the author of four tasy/science fiction illustrator. He has recently azine. They also have a novella available on Ama- achieved a ton of success selling his fantasy war- books (including the middle-grade series Hank zon Ring of Fire Press called No Ship for Tranquebar. rior artwork around the globe. dendorrity.com Hudson), illustrator of three, and is a professional educator on story. He is currently living in Idaho Kevin Evans is a contributing author in the Ring Devon Dorrity is an accomplished fantasy sculp- with his two sons. www.clark-chamberlain.com of Fire story cycle started by Eric Flint. Alternate tor and graphic designer. His art has been included history, large machines, and airships are what I do. Renee Collins graduated from BYU with a degree in Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic volumes 20, 21, 22, and 24. He won the Chesley David Farland is a bestselling in history. She is the author of Relic, Until We Meet Art New York Times Award in 2014 for Best Dimensional Art and was author with over fifty novels to his credit. He has Again, and Remember Me Always. www.reneecollins​ ​ author.com featured in the Best of Spectrum Exhibit in New won numerous awards for his writing, has worked York City. He is the CEO of hh2 Cloud Services as a game designer and as a Hollywood greenlighter, Stan Crowe began writing at the age of five and and does sculpture and design work in his spare is the lead judge for the world’s largest science fic- has since let life carry him on a wild journey time. www.devondorrity.com tion and fantasy writing contest, and has trained involving marriage and nine children, life in sev- nearly one hundred writers who have become New Maxwell Alexander Drake is an award-winning eral different states, jobs ranging from teaching York Times bestsellers. mystory​doctor.com to engineering, and a pair of cats. He doesn’t ever novelist and was the lead fiction writer for Sony’s write about the cats. Nonetheless, he’s put his sig- EverQuest Next. He teaches creative writing all Angie Fenimore is the New York Times and interna- nature on sf/f, romance, and even mysteries, and over the world. www.DrakeU.com tional bestselling author of Beyond the Darkness, an games with his kids in his spare time. inspirational speaker, a highly effective coach, and Brian Lee Durfee is author of The Forgetting Moon the facilitator of Calliope Writing Courses. Known Lyman Dayton is a director and producer of fam- and The Blackest Heart, volumes one and two of the as “The Pitch Master,” Angie has served as a guest ily friendly films. He directed The Last Resort, Five Warrior Angels series published by Simon and presenter, panelist, and faculty for David Farland’s Second Chance, The Dream Machine, The Red Schuster’s Saga Press. www.brianleedurfee.com Writing Seminars, Inspired Legacy Writing Retreats, Fury, Solo, The Avenging, Rivals, and Baker’s Author 101, League of Utah Writers, LTUE and Tom Durham is a storyteller who believes great Hawk. He produced Against a Crooked Sky, ­others. www.Calliope​WritingCoach.com stories, well told, can change the world. He now Seven Alone, and Where the Red Fern Grows. writes, produces, and directs all kinds of stuff He also produced several direct-to-video feature Anna K. Findlay is a costume designer for for big screens, little screens, and on stage. He’s films, including Second Chance. He wrote the BYUtv’s Extinct series.

9 K. Scott Forman received his master of fine arts sides of the publishing industry as a hybrid author. documentary. He was responsible for one of the degree in creative writing from Naropa University. He lives with his wife, three children, and more first viral video sensations on YouTube, “Will It He co-edited the annual collection Fast Forward: pets than they need. He is currently corrupting Blend.” He currently manages the LDS Film Festi- A Collection of Flash Fiction through five volumes. his children with a rich education of geek culture. val, now in it’s seventeenth year. The festival meets Scott also received a master of arts and educa- www.mtoddgallowglas.com every year at the SCERA Center for the Arts, pre- tion degree from the University of Phoenix. He senting feature films, short films, and the coveted currently teaches English composition at Weber James Ganiere is a creator, writer, producer of TV, 24-hour film competition. This year, the festival State University. His publications include poetry, film, books, games (We Are Dead) and more. Cre- expanded by introducing new categories, such essay, and short stories, most recently appearing ator of Back from the Dead, co-creator of Dead- as the documentary, music video and web video liest Fandoms with host Gigi Edgley, producer in the anthologies It Came From the Great Salt Lake, competition. The festival runs from February 26 of Nobility (which partnered with Stan Lee’s Gothic Tales of Terror Anthology, and Old Scratch through March 3, 2018. ldsfilmfest.com Comikaze last year), Discovery executive pro- and Owl Hoots. ducer, Emmy judge, chief editor and publisher of Cliff Green has been a professional sculptor, spe- Richard Franklin has published poetry, short award winning amazon best sellers, scifi, fantasy cializing in prehistoric fauna, for over two decades. stories, and novellas and written fiction for video and paranormal/horror. As president of Rio Vista His artwork is in museums and private collections, games and RPGs. His first full-length novel will be Universal, he’s working with talent that ranges worldwide. As of late, he has been branching out published later this year. He has a BFA in Theater from the cinematographer from Star Wars IV to towards illustration and fantasy sculpture. Cliff and Film from BYU and he has worked all over Nevielle Page (Prometheus, Syfy FaceOff judge) as a is a native of southern California and currently the country as a professional actor, film maker and creature designer. RioVistaUniversal.com resides in Price, Utah, with his wife, four kids, and corporate entertainer and educator. richie​franklin​ a variety of stray cats. .net/writer/ V. J. O. Gardner is an award-winning author of several books including Dracona’s Rebirth (Ink Christine Haggerty taught English, holds a black Daniel Craig Friend graduated from Brigham Smith Publishing). She has done editing, format- belt in Shotokan Karate from two different orga- Young University with a BA in editing and the lin- ting, and been a writing coach. Valerie has been nizations, published four novels and a guide on guistics of English. While there, he learned both an invited speaker at Comic Con, FanX, and writing fight scenes, and likes to argue. After the business and the craft of writing science fic- writers conferences as an expert in world build- teaching English and karate for several years in tion and fantasy from Brandon Sanderson and ran ing. Although she writes young adult books, they the private education sector, Christine Haggerty BYU’s speculative fiction magazine,Leading Edge. are loved by those who are young at heart. www​ is a dark fantasy author who spends her other life Since graduating, Daniel has worked as a technical .vjogardner.com practicing her unique skills in a Park City bar. editor and layout designer for a Utah technology National award-winning storyteller Stephen Brian C. Hailes is the award-winning writer/illus- training company; the managing editor for Emer- Gashler is an author, playwright, filmmaker, com- trator of the soon-to-be-released illustrated novel ald Sky, a speculative fiction e-magazine; and the copy editor for national nonfiction books at Cedar poser, songwriter, professional cage fighter, and Blink, two graphic novels entitled Dragon’s Gait Fort Publishing. dcfeditor.wixsite.com/dcfeditor compulsive liar. His works include the YA novels and Devil’s Triangle, and the children’s picture book The Bent Sword, Prisoner of the Molepeople, Gideon Skeleton Play. Other titles he has illustrated include Heather Frost is the author of the YA Seers tril- Versus the Gods of Cool, and the musicals Valhalla— Heroic: Tales of the Extraordinary, Passion & Spirit: ogy. She has a BS in creative writing and a minor in a Nordic Rock Opera, Take My Death Away, and The Dance Quote Book, Continuum (Arcana Studios), folklore, which has provided her with many story Bums! stephengashler.com as well as McKenna, Ready to Fly. hailesart.com ideas. Heather has presented at writing confer- ences and taught writing classes. She wrote her first Paul Genesse is the bestselling author of the Iron A twenty-five-year video game developer, pub- novel when she was twelve and published her first Dragon series, almost twenty short stories, and lished author, and illustrator, Dustin Hansen has book at twenty-one. She loves fantasy, romance, is the writer/producer/director of The Star Wars combined his love for story and game play into and characters so real they become your friends. Rock Opera. He’s also the editor of the five volumes every form of media he can get his hands on. His in the demon-themed Crimson Pact shared multi- passion for young readers and game player has led Julie Frost lives in Utah with her family—six verse anthology series and loves to play role-play- him to create titles for EA, Disney, Hasbro, Sony, guinea pigs, three humans, a tripod calico cat, and ing and board games. paulgenesse.com Nintendo, MacMillan, and more. Oh, and he’s a a kitten who thinks she’s a warrior princess. Her huge reality TV nerd, but that’s for another con. short fiction has appeared in many venues includ- Jessica Day George is the New York Times bestsell- Or is it? www.dustwrites.com ing author of over a dozen books for young adult ing Monster Hunter Files and Writers of the Future, and middle grade readers. Originally from Idaho Carrie Harris is a geek-of-all-trades and proud and her novel, Pack Dynamics, was published by WordFire Press in 2015. agilebrit.livejournal.com and having lived in Delaware and New Jersey, she of it. Brains are her specialty; she used to work in now lives in Utah with her husband, three chil- a lab where they were delivered daily by FedEx. Gordon Frye has been interested in historical dren, and fluffy white dog. She enjoys knitting, After that, it seemed only natural to write a zom- weapons of all sorts from a very early age. A reen- Irish dance, and chocolate that is as dark as her bie book—Bad Taste in Boys. Her other books aren’t actor for years, he took his masters in western soul. www.jessicadaygeorge.com about brains or zombies, but she thinks they’re still history with him into film work, assaulting the pretty good. Carrie lives in Utah with her ninja- Alamo, commanding horse cavalry, and portray- McKelle George is a reader, editor, perpetual doctor husband and three monster-obsessed chil- ing soldiers, sailors, cowboys, and Afghan free- doodler, and associate librarian at the best library dren. She is an organizer of WriteOnCon, an online dom-fighters. He currently teaches US, world, and in the world. She mentors with Salt Lake Teen kidlit writers conference; the president of the Class naval history at Navy College at Naval Base Kitsap Writes and her debut young adult novel Speak of 2k11, a marketing group for young adult and in Bremerton, WA. historypundit.webs.com Easy, Speak Love came out from Greenwillow/ middle grade writers; and marketing director for HarperCollins in 2017. She currently lives in Salt Evil Hat Productions, an RPG and book company. M. Todd Gallowglas is a professional storyteller Lake City. mckellegeorge.com and the bestselling author of the Tears of Rage, Hal- Mette Ivie Harrison is the author of numerous Kels Goodman grew up with a love for film. A loween Jack, and Dead Weight series. Embracing the books for young adults, including The Princess and BYU graduate, his producing credits include changes sweeping through the publishing indus- the Hound and Mira, Mirror. The Bishop’s Wife is her try, Todd used his storytelling show to launch his Handcart, The Last Eagle Scout, The Latter-Days first adult mystery and the first in the Linda Wall- self-published writing career. He now plays both of Elvis Prestley, and The Jets: Making It Real heim series set in Mormon Utah. Mette holds a

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PhD in Germanic languages and literatures from Daniel Jeffery earned a bachelor’s degree from David Powers King fell in love with stories. What Princeton University and is an All-American tri- BYU in linguistics with minors in Russian and started out as a preschool poem had grown into a athlete. She is the mother of five children and lives anthropology. He then studied ancient met- science fiction adventure that led to his first com- with her husband in Utah. metteivieharrison.com alworking and extraction at the Institute of plete novel at age fifteen. He worked with film Archaeology, University College London with and animation in LA for a few years but writ- Angela Hartley is the author of the Heartstone an emphasis on technological change and scien- ing proved to be his true ambition. David is the Collection (a young adult paranormal romance tific analysis methods. During his studies Daniel author of Woven and The Undead Road. He is the series traditionally published through 48Four- participated in blacksmithing, built a working president of Dashbook Books, a self-publishing teen), “Room 517” (a short story published by bloomery furnace, and studied various ancient imprint. www.davidpowersking.com Crimson Edge in Secrets & Doors), and “Saltair Fire technological projects. Daniel now works in Infor- Waltz” (a short story published by Griffon Publish- mation Security, most recently playing a founding Emily R. King is a reader of everything and a ing in It Came from the Great Salt Lake). A veteran role in the creation of Let’s Encrypt. writer of fantasy. She’s a member of the Society of speaker/presenter with over eight years experi- Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and an ence in educating and entertaining, she special- With her degree in history and secondary edu- active participant in her local writers’ community. izes in mental health issues, psychic abilities, and cation, Jennifer Jenkins had every intention of Emily is the author of The Hundredth Queen series. spirituality. www.angelasattitude​adjust​ment.com teaching teens to love George Washington, the emilyrking.com Napoleonic Wars, and ancient Sparta . . . until Robert Hatch has directed seven films for the the writing began. She is the author of the Name- Born in Salt Lake City, Jason King grew up on a BBC, including a series on Native Americans. His less trilogy (YA fantasy) and co-founder of Teen steady diet of anime, science fiction, Dungeons films have won nearly three hundred film festival Author Boot Camp, a federal nonprofit organi- and Dragons, JRPG’s, and chocolate cake donuts. honors. He teaches acting master classes—how zation dedicated to promoting teen literacy and Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in I.T. Manage- actors/directors create believable characters. His authorship. jajenkins.com ment and is currently the Internet Marketing dramatic films have rich subtext, nuanced mean- Manager for a local bookstore chain, but he has ing, depth that resonates with audiences. Michael Jensen spent several years developing sworn by Grabthar’s hammer that he will one day the concept behind Woven before he met David quit his “9 to 5” and write full-time. He is also a As a professional costume designer and cloth- Powers King, who expanded on Michael’s vision proud “anonymous” member of the Space Balrogs ing historian for over twenty-five years,Jonna and made it a reality. A graduate of Brigham comedy troupe, and he speaks fluent Labrador. Hayden has designed and built over two hundred Young University’s prestigious music, dance, and www.immortal-works.com shows for opera, ballet, and theater. She has been theater program, Michael taught voice at BYU a resident artist for school districts, a regular pan- before establishing his own vocal instruction stu- Jeb Kinnison authored the Substrate Wars science elist at sf conventions, and a private consultant dio. In addition to being an imaginative storyteller, fiction series, as well as books on relationships and on clothing history for many authors. She loves Michael is an accomplished composer and vocal- “Death by HR.” Graduate of MIT in planetary sci- discussing how clothing can visually inform an ist. He lives in Salt Lake City with his husband and ence and computer science, he worked at BBN audience and enrich the experience. their four dogs. wovenbook.com down the hall from the guy who picked “@” for email addresses. He has worked in supercomputer Laura Henriksen is published in the UAA anthol- J. R. Johansson’s books have been published in a and AI programming, genetic trading algorithms, ogy Obvious Things. She was the vice president of dozen languages and more than twenty countries and managed a quarter-billion-dollar portfolio for the Utah Valley Writers and a participant in Pitch worldwide. She has a BS degree in public relations clients. substratewars.com Madness 2017. She grew up in the U.S. Air Force, and a background in marketing. She credits her dabbled in martial arts, and studied psychology. So abnormal psychology minor with inspiring many Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and she can imitate several American accents, put you of her characters. She has two sons, a wonderful award-winning author of the middle grade nov- in a headlock, and diagnose your personality disor- husband, three cats, and a hot tub named Valen- els The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, ders . . . all at once. lauramhenriksen.​wordpre​ ss.com tino. www.jrjohansson.com Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and many others. Matthew has won the Edgar Award for Brandon Ho has been involved in the Utah film Aaron Johnston is a New York Times bestselling Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA industry for the last six years, directing, producing, author and the cocreator and executive producer award for Children’s Literature, and the Judy and editing various features, shorts, and commercials. of Extinct, a science fiction television series on Lopez Memorial Award. He is also a school psy- BYUtv. He was also an associate producer on the chologist, and currently lives in Utah with his wife M. Erekson Holt is the author of the fantasy series movie as well as a writer for Mar- and three stepkids. matthewjkirby.com The Shadow Zodiac, as well as short fiction in fan- Ender’s Game vel and EA Comics. His novels, coauthored with tasy and science fiction. He is also a cofounder of A. J. Klaich has been writing speculative fiction Orson Scott Card, includeEarth Unaware, Earth webhosting giant BlueHost, in addition to being a for over five years while working as an editor and Afire, Earth Awakens, The Swarm, Invasive Proce- pilot, bee keeper, and calligrapher. ghostwriter. She has published the first four parts dures, and the other forthcoming Formic Wars and of her urban fantasy serial with several epic fan- Sarah Hoyt was born in Portugal. She was edu- Extinct novels. A longtime stage improviser, Aaron tasy series in the works. cated in both Portugal and the United States and is a former member of LA’s Improv Factory and the Garrens Comedy Troupe. He and his wife are graduated from University of Porto with a mas- Wendy Knight is an award-winning, the parents of four children. aaronw​johnston.com USA Today ter’s equivalent in modern languages and literature bestselling author from Utah. She was raised by a with a major in English and a minor in German. If money, weather, and time were not issues, Ari- wonderful family who spoiled her rotten because She also speaks Swedish, Italian, and French with adne Kane would live at the beach and swim in she was the baby. Now she spends her time driving varying degrees of fluency. She became a United the ocean every day. Her main passion is for sto- her husband crazy with her many eccentricities. States citizen in 1988. She is a member of Mensa, ries—she loves to read, watch, and write them. She also enjoys chasing her three adorable kids . . . SFWA, MWA, and RWA. most of the time. wendyknightauthor.com She published her first book,The Eleventh Finger in 2013. A San Diego M. K. Hutchins is the author of the YA fantasy and the Pirate in the Attic, A former corporal of Marines and an artilleryman, native, Ariadne currently lives in Utah, which is novel Drift and numerous short stories. She often Jonathan LaForce now splits his time between too far away from her family, two dogs, and the draws on her background in archaeology when being a full-time student, writing, and romancing beach. ariadnekane.weebly.com writing. www.mkhutchins.com. a gorgeous blonde. Occasionally there are forays

13 into cooking on the barbecue. He hasn’t burned first love, she also has experience working with Jennifer Moore is the author of over a dozen down a house but it isn’t for lack of trying. nonfiction projects. She is also the author of the books ranging from Regency romance to con- bestselling Hourglass Door trilogy and After Hello. temporary Middle Eastern suspense. Her passion C. R. Langille spent many a Saturday afternoon is researching obscure events in military history, watching monster movies with his mother. It Brian McClellan is an American epic fantasy and she especially enjoys writing about the Age of wasn’t long before he started crafting nightmares to author from Cleveland, Ohio. He is known for his Sail and early American time periods. But always share with his readers. An avid hunter and amateur acclaimed Powder Mage universe and essays on with a dash of romance. authorjmoore.com survivalist, C. R. Langille incorporates the Utah the life and business of being a writer. Brian now outdoors in many of his tales. www​.crlangille.com lives on the side of a mountain in Utah with his Frank Morin loves good stories in every form. wife, Michele, where he writes books and nurses When not writing or trying to keep up with his Caryn Larrinaga is an award-winning mystery, a crippling video game addiction. www.brian​ active family, he’s often found hiking, camping, horror, and urban fantasy writer living in Utah mcclellan.com scuba diving, or enjoying other outdoor activi- with her husband and cats. Her debut novel ties. For updates on his science fiction time travel Donn’s Hill (Immortal Works Press, 2017) was Tim McDonnell is a professional writer and Facetaker novels, his popular Petralist YA fantasy awarded the League of Utah Writers 2017 Silver media producer with more than twenty years novels, or other upcoming book releases, check Quill in the adult novel category, and was a 2017 experience in radio, television, advertising, and www.frankmorin.org Dragon Award finalist. corporate marketing. He has developed content for brands like NPR, ABC/Capital Cities, Bonn- Brandon Mull has worked as a comedian, a filing Daxon Levine earned his BS in psychology and eville, the Biltmore hospitality chain, Baylor clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copy- the Intercultural Peacebuilding Certificate at Health, and the Washington Post’s Cable One. He writer, and briefly as a chicken stacker. For a couple BYU–Hawaii. In 2015, he presented the findings currently produces blogs and mixed media for of years, he lived in the Atacama Desert of North- of his senior research project at the Association CHG Healthcare. www.speedofinsight.com ern Chile, where he learned Spanish and juggling. for Psychological Science conference in New York. He currently lives in Utah in a happy little valley He continues to study world religions and uses the Alicia McIntire writes reasonably cool govern- near the mouth of a canyon with his four children inspiration to create unique worlds and cultures for ment reports that no one reads (though they and dog named Buffy. Brandon is theNew York his upcoming epic fantasy trilogy maybe should). Unhallowed Hands. Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven, Beyonders, and series. ­BrandonMull.com Jess Lindsay has been writing since she was four- Melissa McShane is the author of the bestsell- Five Kingdoms teen, and participating in NaNoWriMo for nearly ing Extraordinaries series, beginning with Burn- Mari Murdock is a freelance writer and editor ten years. She has been reading anything she could ing Bright, and the Crown of Tremontane series, who specializes in gaming fiction and academic get her hands on since before she can remember, beginning with Servant of the Crown. Having pub- writing. She’s worked with various game compa- and between writing she works at a board game lished fourteen books in the last three years, she nies since 2014, including Fantasy Flight Games, store. writinglegends.wordpress.com is experienced at bringing a book from concept to writing fiction for projects such as The Legend of shelf quickly and efficiently. Her newest series is the Five Rings. Besides freelance work, her cur- Mike Lovins is a commercial illustrator whose the Last Oracle. www.melissamcshanewrites.com rent projects include studying toward a master’s background includes storyboards, concept design degree and working on a comic book. empusaegirl. and has been working for clients since 1993. He Donna Milakovic. Working in economic devel- tumblr.com graduated from Utah State University and now opment of science and technology is fascinating. lives in Midvale, Utah. His latest creation is the Being a science fiction fan watching storybook tech Greg Newbold has been creating for as long as online comic book We Go Anywhere. www.wix​ take shape in the lab is surreal. Society has a lot to he can remember. His art is commissioned by .com/mlovins/wegoanywhere learn from science fiction and writers have a lot to advertising and publishing clients nationwide. learn about what is possible today that wasn’t even His newest picture books are Dene Low informed her sixth grade principal that If Picasso Painted a a couple of years ago. I want to help bridge that gap. (Tilbury House Publishers, 2017) and she was going to be an author and has worked Snowman (Shadow Mountain, 2017). toward that goal ever since. Her published works Baen Books executive editor James Minz has been The Little Match Girl Greg believes art should add to the beauty and include novels, short stories, poems, how-to books, employed in genre publishing for more than two fun of life. www.gregnewbold.com and academic works. Low has a master’s in cre- decades, having first worked for Tor for more than ative writing and a PhD in rhetoric and English a decade, then briefly for Del Rey (sf/f imprint of By day, M. A. Nichols works as an urban planner composition. She teaches classes for Brigham Random House), until finally, on the centennial of for the Alaska Department of Transportation, but Young University and Utah Valley University. Robert A. Heinlein’s birth, landing at Baen. by night she writes young adult novels, urban fan- When she is not writing or teaching writing, Low tasies, and fairy tale retellings. She is the author of likes to snorkel and/or ride her motorcycle, but L. E. Modesitt Jr. is the New York Times bestselling the Tréaltha series and Geoffrey P. Ward’s Guide to not at the same time. denelow.com author of more than seventy f&sf novels, includ- Villainy. www.ma-nichols.com ing the Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio. He Dr. John K. Lundwall received his MA and PhD has been a US Navy pilot, market research ana- Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author and in mythological studies from Pacifica Graduate lyst, real estate agent, political research director, managing editor at Flash Fiction Online. Her short Institute in Carpenteria, California. He special- Congressional staff director, and environmental fiction has been published byFantastic Stories izes in the connections between oral cosmology, consultant. His most recent book is The Mongrel of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: myth, and cults. His book www.lemodesittjr.com Mythos and Cosmos: Mage. Futures, and various other ezines and anthologies. Mind and Meaning in the Oral Age reexamines Her time travel novella, “The Continuum,” is out Joe Monson loves reading and books. He trans- ancient myth through the template of oral think- from World Weaver Press in January 2018. www​ lates and edits Engineer into English by day and ing and oral cosmology. .wendynikel.com expands the accessible knowledge of the world by Lisa Mangum has worked in the publishing night. He has gotten back into collecting amazing Chersti Nieveen [share-stee/neh-vene] has department of Deseret Book since 1997. She is cur- short works and sharing them with the world. He worked as an editor for over thirteen years. She rently the managing editor for the Shadow Moun- collects sf/f art, but not as much as Paul (as if that is the owner of Writer Therapy, a successful free- tain imprint and has worked with several New was even possible). He lives in the mountains with lance editing business, and her clients include York Times bestselling authors. While fiction is her his wife, two children, and their pet library. bestselling indie and traditionally published

14 authors. Chersti enjoys teaching at writing con- vocalist and has toured internationally with rock Janci Patterson writes contemporary and sci- ferences and was recently a panelist for a Writer’s and metal bands. Peter’s fiction often blends his ence fiction young adult novels. She lives in Orem, Digest podcast. WriterTherapy.com passion for stories and music. www.orullian.com Utah, with her family. www.jancipatterson.com

Rowan North is a freelance illustrator and art Dr. Dennis Packard has been a professor of philos- Joshua J. Perkey has worked as an associate editor educator who excels in experimentation, espe- ophy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, for the McGraw-Hill companies and, for eleven cially in different art mediums and subjects. She for more than forty years. He regularly teaches years, as an editor for both the New Era and the hopes to use her fantastical work to help inspire courses in his department on film, literature, and Ensign magazines. Josh has also written epic and others to express themselves and loves teaching art. He has produced theatrically released films MG fantasy and YA science fiction. He also works the language of self-expression to others. rowan​ and PBS specials and received awards for them. as a mentor, coaching individuals to achieve their north.deviantart.com Dennis wrote the book The Film Novelist: Writing dreams. His clients include New York Times best- a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks. sellers. Forty million copies of his articles are in Craig Nybo writes novels, composes music, and print in fifty-two languages. joshuajperkey.com creates tabletop games. He appears often as a spe- Jay Packard has been composing for film and video cial guest, speaker, and instructor for both authors for over ten years. He has mentored students in Luke Peterson does one thing really well: build and musicians at conferences, seminars, and pri- composing. He has developed theories for how worlds that work both in fiction and in real life. vate events. CraigNybo.com music ought to support a film and has written a He directs one of the nation’s leading civic inno- site to facilitate the practice of the theory, collabo- vation offices in partnership with the City of Bos- Stephanie Ollerton is a producer, cinematogra- ration, and review of scoring a film. plotsa.com ton and City of Philadelphia. In this capacity he pher, and story consultant. She has worked in the is also the creator and director of FutureScapes. film and television industries since 2001. Stepha- L. Palmer has the Pippington Tales, a series where FutureScapes is a national writing contest that nie is trained in anthropology, film theory, and motorcars bump down old city lanes and mer- utilizes the future-facing vision of science fiction criticism, and film creation. maids just might be real. In between exploring the to envision solutions to pressing public problems fantasy worlds, L. Palmer works in public service like accessibility, air pollution, and crime. The first John M. Olsen reads and writes fantasy, science- and lives in Southern Texas. She is an award-win- published anthology of is due out in fiction, steampunk, and horror as the mood FutureScapes ning speaker and has lunch with dragons every early 2017. workshop.futurescapescontest.com strikes. His short fiction is part of several anthol- Tuesday. lpalmerchronicles.com ogies. He loves to create things, whether writing C. A. Preece is a high school chemistry teacher in novels or short stories or working in his secret lair Scott R. Parkin in an award-winning author, critic, central Kentucky and a graduate student at the equipped with dangerous power tools. In either and essayist with more than thirty short story sales University of Kentucky studying S.T.E.M. edu- case, he applies engineering principles and pro- in sf, fantasy, and literary fiction. A recent prize cation, where he aims to research the effects of cesses to the task at hand, often in unpredictable winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the learning chemistry through comics. C. A. recently ways. johnmolsen.blogspot.com Future Contest, he was also recently featured in had his first graphic novel published,CheMystery, the Valor issue of the Fiction River anthology series, which explores chemistry through two kids fight- By day, Peter Orullian works for Xbox, trying and the romance anthology A Kiss Is Still a Kiss. ing a monster and experimenting with newfound hard to convince people to play video games. As powers! AtomicUniverse.org a writer, Peter writes across a number of genres, Sofiya Pasternack is the pen name for an ICU with a current epic fantasy series from Tor Books nurse and ten-year military member who writes Charlie Pulsipher is a werehamster who writes entitled The Vault of Heaven. His short fiction— middle grade lit about Russian dragons, as well as books and creates art that rarely smell like cheese fantasy, science fiction, horror, and more—has Old Lady Chosen One Norse fantasy. If she’s not but always transport you to another place or time appeared in anthologies, online, and collections writing, she’s probably sleeping or cross-stitching where cool things happen. The best part? You get of his own work. Peter is also an award-winning something inappropriate about robots. to experience these cool things through the eyes

In Memoriam

To the patron saints who touched our lives before bravely going into that great beyond. Marion K. “Doc” Smith—BYU professor of English and the force behind the symposium. Betty Pope—a librarian at BYU and the main reason BYU has a science fiction and fantasy collection. We miss her sweet smile and gracious support. Sue Ream—a BYU professor of English who generously opened her home to guests and committee members alike. Linda Hunter Adams—director of the BYU Humanities Publication Center, who gave us the tools, a space, and encouragement to pursue our dreams. Jonathan Langford—second chair of LTUE, who had immense intellect, good humor, and boundless enthusiasm and support for the sf/f community.

15 of interesting people. That’s the magic of books J. Scott Savage is the author of 18 published nov- spy in the Star Gate remote-viewing program. and art, magic Charlie claims to wield like some els including the Farworld series, the Case File He teaches remote viewing and other intuitive half-trained bookmancer or artician out of legend. 13 series, and the Mysteries of Cove series. His skills, has a PhD from the University of Texas, is charliepulsipher.com books have received a starred Kirkus review, a author of Reading the Enemy’s Mind and The Essen- starred Publishers Weekly review, a Junior Library tial Guide to Remote Viewing, and is creator of the Kathryn Purdie is the author of the number one Guild selection, a Whitney Award, and Amazon Remote Perception home-study course. www​ New York Times Bestselling Burning Glass YA fantasy and B&N book of the month. He lives in Utah .rviewer.com series (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins). with his amazing wife Jennifer, four kids, and five Kathryn is a trained classical actress who studied at grandkids. www.jscottsavage.com Virginia (Ginny) Smith is the bestselling author of the Oxford School of Drama and has taught writ- thirty-five novels (and counting). Ginny writes in a ing classes at Sundance Workshops and LDStory- Nick Scholz is a writer, game developer, and variety of styles, from lighthearted relationship sto- makers conferences and was a keynote speaker for marketer with years of experience in high-tech ries to breath-snatching suspense. Her books have Writing for Charity. kathryn​purdie.com software, education, and design. He is a frequent received many awards, including two Holt Medal- speaker at UVU and a strong advocate for inter- lion Awards of Merit. www.Virginia​Smith.org. Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao, MD, MSc, is a child psy- active narrative, work/life balance, and social chiatrist specializing in trauma, neurodevelop- causes. Nick is the owner and creative director of Emily Martha Sorensen writes clean fantasy for ment, psychotherapy, and medical illness. He first Spero Gameworks, an indie game studio located all age levels, and she doesn’t exactly follow the trained as an evolutionary biologist, studying the in Springville, Utah, that specializes in narrative- crowd. She has hair long enough to sit on, she origin of social systems and intelligence. Other driven games. www.sperogames.com laughs unself-consciously in public, she strikes expertise includes exercise science and eastern up conversations with complete strangers, and religions. He has also served as a consultant for Jenette Scott is a homeschooling mother of two she licks her plate at mealtimes—why wouldn’t multiple published authors and has the tuckeriza- that likes to make up parodies and use parodies you, when the food is good? www.emilymartha​ tions to prove it. from other artists in the teaching of important sorensen.com concepts in core units of study such as math, sci- Kip Rasmussen primarily does Tolkien-related ence, and language arts. She has found that the Kal Spriggs is an Amazon bestselling science fic- illustration. His works have appeared in Peter power of music and catchy lyrics helps a concept tion and fantasy author with over twenty pub- Jackson’s The Hobbit DVD and in art anthologies stick in the memory banks better than any other lished novels. Kal started reading science fiction around the world. He is also an independent film technique. and fantasy in the second grade and took it into producer currently working with filmmaker Tom his head to start writing soon after. Twenty years, Durham (95ers). Sarah E. Seeley is a fantasy and horror author many drafts, and lots of experience later he pub- and an affiliate member of the Horror Writers lished his first novel. A military veteran, Kal loves TJ da Roza is an editor for Jolly Fish Press, and Association. She has a bachelor’s degree in geology his family, the mountains, cats, and good stories. he’ll take the seed of your manuscript and help it and loves exploring the science of human origins. kalspriggs.com grow into a flower, or tree, or, yes, even a dragon. www.slithersofthought.com Many of his authors are award winners; some of Robert Starling is a writer-producer with over their accolades include the Gold Quill for best Young Daniel E. Smalley was a farmhand by day forty years experience in film and television pro- young adult novel, the Susan P. Bloom award, and an intrepid experimenter by night. He exper- duction. He was the founder of the Associated Utah Writer of the Year, SCBWI Mentorship imented a great deal with holography, and for this Latter-day Media Artists (ALMA), a fellow- award, and numerous Amazon bestsellers. reason was led to attend MIT where he earned a ship of LDS media professionals. His experience BS, MEng, MS, and PhD degrees while working encompasses all kinds of media production in Josi Russell’s science fiction novels explore famil- to create the world’s first low-cost holographic Georgia, California, and Utah, including two iar human relationships in unfamiliar contexts. video monitor. Now as a newly minted BYU years with the NBC TV network in Burbank, CA. She currently teaches creative writing and fiction professor, he is continuing his work in electro- for Utah State University Eastern. She lives in holography by fabricating new waveguide-based Callie Stoker is a freelance editor for the Man- the alien landscape of the high desert and is cap- modulators. Professor Smalley aspires to create uscript Doctor with over ten years of helping tivated by the fields of linguistics, mathematics, large, high resolution, interactive holographic and writers become authors. She is a member of the and medicine; by the vast unknown beyond our volumetric displays. He is also part of collabora- Editorial Freelancers Association, the Horror atmosphere; and by the whole adventure of being tions pursuing novel brain probes and tractor Writers Association, and the League of Utah Writ- human. www.josirussellwriting.com beam technologies. ers. She is also an avid cosplayer, a calligrapher, and a champion for those with disabilities—including Richard Lance Russell has taken viewers from Jess Smart Smiley makes rad pictures with his bare her two sons with ASD. themanuscriptdr.com Elizabethan England to outer space. He is a fine hands. Works include comics, picture books, murals, artist who paints Shakespearean scenes, a video character design, hidden object books, and more. Darci Stone recently won first place in ­Writers of game artist, and an illustrator. His work has been Clients include Disney Pixar, Penguin Random the Future. She graduated from Brigham Young displayed from New York to Santa Fe, including a House, and Cartoon Network. jess​-smiley.com. University with a degree in physics teaching and solo show at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Cur- a minor in cultural anthropology. Darci cur- rent projects include book cover design for private Brennan Smith helped found the BYU Games rently teaches high school physics in American clients and for the Shadows of Empyriad science Department during his time there as a gradu- Fork, Utah, and is a web developer for online fiction novels. richardrussellart.com ate student, acting as technical director for Boss educational software. She married into the world Arena and design lead for Vanguards. He moved of speculative fiction when she said “yes” to Eric Brandon Sanderson has published nine solo nov- on to create Minecraft modpacks and adventure James Stone. els with Tor. He also has four books in the middle- maps for Technic on paid commission and is now grade Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians series from creating virtual reality training simulations for Eric James Stone is a Nebula Award winner, a Scholastic. He was chosen to complete Robert Interplay Learning as a full-time job. www.​tech​ Hugo nominee, and has been published in Year’s Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Currently living in nic​pack.net/modpack/blightfall.592618 Best SF, Analog, and elsewhere. His debut novel, a Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches science fiction thriller titledUnforgettable, was pub- creative writing at Brigham Young University. Dr. Paul H. Smith, a Desert Storm veteran and lished by Baen. Eric lives in Utah, where he works as BrandonSanderson.com retired Army intelligence officer, was a psychic a systems administrator. www.ericjames​stone.com.

16 Cara Stratton is a seventeen-year-old aspiring Howard Tayler is the writer and illustrator behind Brad R. Torgersen is a multiaward-nominated concept artist who has worked hard over the years Schlock Mercenary, the Hugo-nominated science and multiaward-winning science fiction author, to develop her skills at background and character fiction comic strip. He also co-hosts the Hugo and who publishes regularly in the pages of numerous design. She has done freelance work for various Parsec award-winning Writing Excuses podcast, magazines and anthologies. His novels are pub- clients, including diagrams for a book on oral the cast of which collaborated together to create lished by Baen Books, and his short fiction col- speech therapy. erynnia.artstation.com the Shadows Beneath anthology. Howard has writ- lections are published by WordFire Press. A chief ten tie-in fiction for Privateer Press and horror warrant officer in the United States Army Reserve, Dr. Eric G. Swedin is a professor of history at for the Space Eldrich anthologies. His most recent Brad is also a military veteran who is local to Utah. Weber State University. His publications include project is the Planet Mercenary RPG. Howard numerous articles, six history books, four science lives in Orem, Utah, with his wife, Sandra; their Suzanne Vincent has worked on staff at Flash fiction novels, and a historical mystery novel. His four children; and one ungrateful, archetypally Fiction Online (now the second-most-read flash book When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the imperious cat. schlockmercenary.com fiction magazine on the web, with thirty-five Cuban Missile Crisis won the 2010 Sidewise Award thousand monthly visitors) since nearly its begin- for Alternate History. www.swedin.org Keary Taylor is the USA Today bestselling author nings in 2006 and has headed the editorial staff as of over twenty novels. She grew up along the foot- editor-in-chief since 2010. Managing more than Daniel Swenson is the creator and host of the hills of the Rocky Mountains, where she started eight thousand submissions per year, she has seen Hugo-nominated podcast Dungeon Crawlers creating imaginary worlds and daring characters everything in the slush pile. flashfictiononline.com Radio. His debut novel, The Shadow above the who always fell in love. She now splits her time Flames, is available now through Immortal Works. between a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest Bobbie Berendson W. is an independent artisan He also has a short story, “Tremors within the and Utah, dragging along her husband and their living in the grand cultural hub of American Fork, Storm,” included in Jason King’s Valcoria Awaken- two children. She continues to have an overactive Utah. A classical illustrator by training and a life- ings anthology. www.DungeonCrawlersRadio.com imagination that frequently keeps her up at night. long student of history, costume, and culture, she kearytaylor.com brings a unique perspective to her craft. B­ obbie Scott E. Tarbet writes enthusiastically in several majored in illustration as well as minoring in genres, sings opera, teaches music to children, Sandra Tayler is a writer of essays, children’s books, anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology and loves steampunk waltzes, slow-smokes thou- picture books, speculative fiction, and blog entries. forensic anthropology. She has won several local sands of pounds of Texas-style barbeque every She has two picture books in print, two essay books, and national awards for her jewelry design and summer, and was married in full Elizabethan ten years of blog entries, and a novel in progress. steampunk illustrations. www.metallicvisions.com regalia. An avid skier, hiker, golfer, and tandem When she is not working, Sandra spends time with kayaker, he makes his home in the mountains of her house, her four kids, and her cartoonist hus- New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells is best Utah. scotttarbet.timp.net​ band, Howard Tayler. one​cobble.com known for his horror series I Am Not A Serial Killer,

July 4 to July 7, 2019 Davis Conference Center, Layton, Utah Westercon is a Four-Day Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention For more information visit https://www.westercon72.org Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/Westercon72/ Writer Guest: Jim Butcher Artist Guest: Vincent Villafranca Cosplay Guest: Kitty Krell Fan Guests: Kevin Standlee, Lisa Hayes & Kuma Bear Memberships for Westercon 72 in 2019 are $60.00 for Adult attending with discounts for Military (Including Veterans) at $45.00. Teens are $35.00. Children 7-12 are $20.00. Kids-in-Tow 6 and under are Free. Supporting memberships Jim Butcher are $30.00. These prices are only good through March 30, Vincent Villafranca 2018, when they will increase. Westercon 72 is supported by the Utah Fandom Organization, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Westercon is a registered service mark of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, Inc. and is used with permission

17 the first book of which is now an award-winning to romance and how-to. Roger graduated from HowStuffWorks, and StarWars.com. He’s also the movie through IFC Midnight. His other novels MIT in chemical engineering. He spent his post- host of one of the most popular Star Wars podcasts include two young adult science fiction series: the college years working first in chemical engineer- around, Full of Sith. www.bryanyoungfiction.com post-apocalypse Partials and the cyberpunk Mira- ing and then high-tech marketing. Early on he Jemma Young is a freelance illustrator as well as dor. Dan has written for the television seriesExtinct learned that the question “What is it good for?” and wrote and produced the horror-comedy stage was at the heart of every high-tech breakthrough. the creator and artist for the webcomic Children of She has colored comics professionally and play A Night of Blacker Darkness. He cohosts the This is the central theme of his Technofiction sci- Eldair. has done book covers, cartography, design work, Hugo-winning podcast Writing Excuses. He also ence fiction stories. www.whiteworld.com writes short fiction and game fiction and edited the and illustration. www.jemmayoung.com anthology to help raise funds for Johnny Worthen is an award-winning, bestsell- Altered Perceptions Though Michael D. Young grew up traveling and awareness of mental illness. Dan lives in north- ing author, voyager, and damn fine human being! the world with his military father, he now lives ern Utah with his wife, six children, and more than He is the tie-dye-wearing writer of the nation- in Utah with his wife, Jen, and his two sons. He four hundred board games. fearfulsymmetry.net ally acclaimed, #1 Kindle bestselling Eleanor, the is a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Unseen, first book of The Unseen trilogy. Among and the author of novels in the Canticle Kingdom Robison Wells is the author of Variant, Black Out, his other titles are the adult occult thriller Beatry- series, the Last Archangel series, the Chess Quest Dark Energy, Airships of Camelot, Disasterland (with sel, the adult political mystery The Brand Demand, James Patterson), and many more. He has been and the award-winning, genre bending comedy- series, and the Penultimate Dawn cycle (The Hun- ). www.authormichaelyoung.com published in nine languages. He has an MBA in noire The Finger Trap. Trained in stand-up com- ger marketing. He also has schizophrenia, OCD, and edy, modern literary criticism and cultural studies, Kjirstin Youngberg has been a professional photo- panic disorder. He runs a YouTube channel, Out Johnny is a frequent public speaker, blogger, and journalist for nearly fifty years. A CE3 event early of My Mind, where he discusses mental health teacher at the University of Utah. “I write what I in her life convinced her we are not alone in the issues. like to read,” he says. “That guarantees me at least universe. She has written three nonfiction books one fan.” www.johnnyworthen.com David J. West is the author of the historical and is working on a fourth, which will document her interviews with ufologists and government action-adventure series the Heroes of the Fallen James Wymore grew up on a heavy diet of movies witnesses who claim the subject has been covered saga, Blood of Our Fathers, and stand-alone novels and books that morphed his real life adventures up for over seventy years. Bless the Child and Whispers Out of the Dust. He into imaginary worlds. His published works span also released the short story anthologies the fiction spectrum, including many different Weird Kaitlund Zupanic never doubted when she grew and His latest books genres in the bestselling Actuator series. He’s an Tales of Horror The Mad Song. up she would be an artist. On school assignments and will be avail- acquisitions editor, running games with hundreds Cold Slither Sowing Dragon Teeth she would label herself as one even if it wasn’t an able soon. of players at conventions. jameswymore​.word​ option. She needed to explore her own fantasy press.com Roger Bourke White Jr. is the author of fourteen worlds and create mythical creatures to live in books, one of which has sold over twenty thou- Bryan Young is an accomplished novelist and them. The horses, chickens, dogs, cats, and many sand copies, with topics ranging from exploring nonfiction writer. He’s had four novels pub- other animals she grew up with became her main human thinking to Roger’s style of science fiction lished and writes regularly for Big Shiny Robot!, inspiration. kaitlundzupanic.com

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Thursday, February 15, 2018 Give Him a Twirly Mustache: How to Rep- you through the editing process and what to resent Good and Evil Artistically expect along the way. Learn insider tips and 9:00–9:45 AM (Th) Most of the time, we can identify heroes and tricks on how to make the most of your work- villains on sight. Why is that? What visual ing relationship, including when to follow the Ancient Myth vs. Modern Fantasy cues help viewers recognize the good from editor’s notes and when to go with your gut. Our fantasy grew out of our myths, or did it? the bad? (Art, Elm) (Writing, Amphitheater) Where are the ties? Is modern fantasy our Chersti Nieveen generations’ myths? (Books, Arches) Dennis Dorrity, Richard Franklin (m), Brian C. Hailes, Jonna Hayden Elizabeth Buck, D. J. Butler, M. Todd Gallow- Terraforming and Colonizing Venus glas, John K. Lundwall, M. A. Nichols (m) Inanimate Objects as Characters We tend to think of Mars as more hospitable A presentation about how to write inanimate for colonization than Venus, but Venus has Believable Emotions objects as characters. (Writing, Birch) certain advantages for colonization as well. How to write believable emotions, and why What can we do to colonize Venus right now? Ryan Decaria they are essential to your story. (Writing, What might we do to make Venus more hos- Cascade C) An Inside Look at How Authors and pitable to human life? (Worldbuilding, Bryce) Shannon Babb, Angie Fenimore (m), David ­Editors Work Together Kevin Evans, Scott R. Parkin( m), Sarah E. See-

Powers King, C. R. Langille, Peter Orullian Learn what finishing a book—and then hav- ley, Brad R. Torgersen ing that book edited—looks like. Join free- lance editor Chersti Nieveen as she walks

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Thursday noon: Larry Correia Friday noon: James Minz Saturday 2:00 PM: Jessica Douglas Thursday 1:00 PM: Alan Bahr Friday 1:00 PM: Todd McCaffrey Saturday 3:00 PM: Charlie N. Holmberg Thursday 2:00 PM: Sarah Hoyt Friday 2:00 PM: David Farland Saturday 4:00 PM: Jo Walton Thursday 3:00 PM: Jessica Day George Friday 3:00 PM: L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Saturday 5:00 PM: Brandon Sanderson Friday 9:00 aM: Brandon Mull Friday 4:00 PM: Myke Cole Friday 10:00 aM: Dan Wells Saturday 1:00 PM: Susan Chang

Understanding Markets: MG vs. YA vs. Adult 10:00–10:45 AM (Th) understanding of the craft of fiction. Plus, you’ll A discussion of the different markets, includ- Artistic Worldbuilding: How to Create an sound hecka smart at parties. (Writing, Oak) ing middle grade, young adult, and adult. Immersive Visual Experience M. Todd Gallowglas (Professional Development, Maple) Image-based artforms have visual informa- How to Feed an Army Kenna Blaylock, J. DeFranco, Jessica Day tion as an advantage over the written word. Strategy is important, but planning is useless George, Lisa Mangum, Luke Peterson (m) Use that advantage to the fullest extent by if your soldiers can’t eat and don’t have muni- What Makes or Breaks LDS Films? Getting creating a world that immerses the viewer. tions. Whether planning or repelling invasions, Past the Unintended Sappy Syndrome (Art, Amphitheater) how do you make sure your army has the sup- Many great LDS movies include zany Brian C. Hailes, Rowan North, Charlie Pul- plies it needs to function properly? (World- intended farcical antics. Others include sipher (m), Richard Lance Russell, Cara Stratton building, Arches) deeply moving dialog, eye-catching scenes, Children’s Literature: Where Did It Come Jonathan LaForce, Jennifer Moore, Kal Spriggs and brilliant humor. On the other hand, the From? (m), Paul H. Smith, Brad R. Torgersen attempted humor or attempted emotional We’re a long way from fairy tales and moral- How to Run a Useful Playtest impact in some movies comes across as being ity stories of the oral traditions. What were Strategies and designs for getting the most out contrived. Come discuss some examples of the roots of children’s lit (SF/F specifically). what is believable and what isn’t. How to find of your playtests at any point in the design Who first wrote specifically to children for process. (Gaming, Cedar) the right balance between adding humor (and entertainment as opposed to education? etc. Christopher Baxter, Bob Defendi (m), Carrie playing on emotions) without going too far. (Books, Birch) (Theatre/Media Arts, Canyon) Harris J. DeFranco (m), Jessica Day George, John K. m J. Scott Bronson ( ), Robert Hatch, Brandon Lundwall, Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao, Emily Martha Live Editing Demonstration Ho, Josi Russell Sorensen A live editing demonstration by editor Lisa Mangum. (Writing, Zion) Write Like You’re Running Out of Time: Computer Security and Cyberwarfare How to be Insanely Productive Lisa Mangum Keeping secrets and sabotage have always From the perspective of making a living as a been important in warfare. With our com- Story Turns writer, does it make sense to try to publish five, puter infrastructure comes added challenges six, seven, or more books per year? How do Cliffhangers, rug pulls, plot twists, reversals, for both espionage and infrastructure. How surprises, revelations (and more) are a core writers pull it off, and is it worth it? (Profes- do governments exploit the weaknesses that sional Development, Zion) part of an exciting plot, pacing control, and computers introduce? How do governments making a reader want to turn the page. Come Larry Correia, Mette Ivie Harrison( m), Char- counter outside attacks? (Worldbuilding, Elm) explore the main types of story turns and how lie N. Holmberg, Emily R. King, Melissa McShane Scott Forman, Erekson Holt (m), Daniel Jeffery, they work so you can use them in your writ- Writing Meet Up: Epic Fantasy Eric G. Swedin ing. (Writing, Bryce)

Are you looking for a writing group? Beta A Geek’s Guide to Literary Theory Angela Hartley, Jason King, C. R. Langille (m), Todd McCaffrey, Janci Patterson readers? Come hang out with fellow readers Once upon a time, some English teacher may and writers of your favorite genres at this low- have tried to convince you of the right way Tackling Sensitive Subjects key networking event. (Boardroom) to read a piece of literature. Lit theory is not Substance abuse, racism, mental illness, physical 9:00–10:45 AM (Th) about the “right” or “wrong” way to read a text. abuse, corruption, and sex. As creators we are It’s more like a wibbly wobbly group of lenses both blessed and cursed with the task of allow- The Basics of Sculpture (2 hours) through which we view writing in order to gain ing others to see through our eyes. By sharing From armature, clay, tools, molding, and cast- a greater understanding of the work. What’s another perspective, we can change lives, but we ing, we’ll demonstrate and discuss tips and more, nerd and geek culture are already mas- can also inflame passions and fuel hate. How do techniques to get a great start with sculpture. ters at several of these lenses. Come find out we push the boundaries without crossing into (Art, Cascade B) what lenses you already use as well as other forbidden territory? (Writing, Canyon) ways to look increase understanding of literary Devon Dorrity Shannon Babb, David Powers King, Ginny texts, yours and others, in order to deepen your Smith, Callie Stoker( m) 19 UFOs in Film History and Including UFOs Storytelling in Board Games: Adding Story a little hamlet to grow into a bustling city? in Your Scripts and Stories Resonance to Game Play What challenges does a city face as it grows? UFO expert Kjirstin Youngberg presents the Board and card games are a fascinating breed- (Worldbuilding, Arches) highlights of UFOs in the movies and dis- ing ground for organic and playful storytell- Ann Chamberlin, M. A. Nichols, Joshua J. Per- cusses facts and theories about UFO sightings. ing. Games that use powerful resonance are key, Eric G. Swedin, Bobbie Berendson W. (m) (Theatre/Media Arts, Cascade C) easier to learn, more powerful to play, and Kaffeeklatsch Kjirstin Youngberg transcend the limited shelf-life of the average game. How are designers adding a wealth of Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Writing a Log Line or Improving the Eleva- story onto simple game components? We’ll Larry Correia tor Pitch deconstruct examples from several current Lovable Bad Boys A workshop where Blake Casselman takes trending games, and then we’ll practice flex- attendees through the process of constructing ing our design and storytelling muscles by cre- Not all good guys are all good. Not all bad a proper log line. (Professional Development, ating cards for a hypothetical game. (Gaming, boys are all bad. What makes us love the Cascade A) Amphitheater) flawed characters and why do we sometimes root for the bad guy more than for the good. Blake Casselman Ryan Decaria (Books, Zion) Writing Meet Up: Short Fiction Structuring Life to Support Creativity Angela Hartley, Michael Jensen (m), Jonathan Are you looking for a writing group? Beta The way that you schedule your days can LaForce, Stan Crowe readers? Come hang out with fellow readers squash your creativity if you are not careful. Making Your Characters Look Unique: and writers of your favorite genres at this low- This class teaches using biorhythms to your Face Structure to Color Scheme key networking event. (Boardroom) advantage, how physical spaces can affect you psychologically, and why you really do need to Classic characters stand out and can be identi- 11:00–11:45 AM (Th) have time to play video games or watch mov- fied across mediums. Learn how to develop an Blogging ies. (Professional Development, Cascade A) iconic look that will be immediately identifi- able. (Art, Maple) Releasing your stories through blogging, Sandra Tayler whether it’s short stories or a novel released Rowan North, Kip Rasmussen, Richard Lance serially, learn how to use blogging as a medium Telepathy, Dragons, and Exploration: The Russell( m), Jemma M. Young Impact of Anne McCaffrey on SF/F to share your work. (Writing, Arches) Random: The Ugliest Word in Gaming How did the popularity of all Anne McCaf- Clark Chamberlain, J. DeFranco, Stephen frey’s series affect future writing? Was she the How to include random elements in your Gashler (m), Robison Wells trend-setter? If not, who was her inspiration? game without removing the players’ sense of Cautionary Tales for First-time Writers (Books, Canyon) control. (Gaming, Elm) (m), Mari Murdock, Brennan Experienced writers share their wisdom with Jessica Day George, Dene Low (m), Maxwell Carrie Harris prospective writers. Find out how you can Alexander Drake, Todd McCaffrey, Karen Evans Smith, Daniel Swenson avoid some of the common mistakes that new So You Want To Be a Shoutcaster writers make. (Writing, Zion) Writing Meet Up: YA/MG Fantasy Are you looking for a writing group? Beta Come listen to shoutcasting expert Brandon Scott R. Parkin, Charlie Pulsipher, Keary Tay- readers? Come hang out with fellow readers Barrus show you how to get started and watch lor, Brad R. Torgersen (m), Jo Walton and writers of your favorite genres at this low- a live shoutcasting demo. (Theatre/Media Roman Engineering key networking event. (Boardroom) Arts, Birch) How did those Romans make their roads Brandon Barrus 12:00–12:45 PM (Th) straight, their concrete last at least two thou- The Art of School Visits “Bringing Culture Alive in the Marketing sand years, and their aqueducts so high? We If you ever plan to write books for children or Classroom: Using to will be discussing what Romans did and how Speaker for the Dead young adults, you need to learn the ancient art Teach Global Marketing” they did it. (Worldbuilding, Bryce) of the school visit. Kids can be a tough audi- Kevin Evans, V. J. O. Gardner (m), Daniel Jef- (Academics, Amphitheater) ence. Learn how to entertain, educate, and get fery, John K. Lundwall Dr. Newell D. Wright, Val Larsen the word out about your work. (Professional Development, Cascade A) Screenwriting and Scriptwriting Workshop Flying Airplanes and Helicopters Bring your script or rough ideas and work What is it like to fly an airplane or a helicop- J. Scott Savage with Blake Casselman. Take your film or stage ter? How do the two types of aircraft com- The Slush Pile Simulator creation to the next level. (Theatre/Media pare? What do airplane pilots and helicopter Come be a fly on the wall as editors and agents Arts, Birch) pilots think of each other? (Worldbuilding, go through real query letters and point out Blake Casselman Cascade B) what makes them pass and what makes them So You Want a Revolution? Kevin Evans (m), Todd McCaffrey, Roger want to read more. (Professional Develop- Bourke White Jr. ment, Cedar) Revolutions are a staple of modern politics around the world. What sets off a revolution? How Cities Grow Angie Fenimore Why are these things so darn unpredictable? Sometimes cities start as little hamlets, some- Unwilling Heroes (Worldbuilding, Cascade C) times they simply pop into existence. Why Not all heroes start out willing and able to Bob Defendi, Jennifer Moore, L. Palmer (m), do people settle where they do? What causes take on the challenge of heroism head-on. Paul H. Smith 20

Thursday, February 15, 2018 Amphitheater Arches Birch Boardroom Bryce Canyon Cascade A Cascade B Cascade C Cedar Elm Maple Oak Zion 9 am An Inside Look Ancient Inanimate Writing Terrafor- What Makes The Believable Give Him Understand- Write Like at How Authors Myth vs. Objects as Meet Up: ming and or Breaks Basics of Emotions a Twirly ing Markets You’re Run- and Editors Modern Characters Epic Fantasy Colonizing LDS Films? Sculpture Mustache: ning Out of Work Together Fantasy Venus (2 hours) Time 10 am Artistic How to Children’s Litera- Writing Story Turns Tackling Writing a Log UFOs in Film How to Run a Computer A Geek’s Live Editing Worldbuiding Feed an ture: Where Did Meet Up: Sensitive Line or Improv- History Useful Playtest Security and Guide to Demonstra- Army It Come From? Short Fiction Subjects ing the Eleva- Cyberwarfare Literary tion tor Pitch Theory 11 am Storytelling in Blogging Screenwriting Writing Roman Telepathy, Structuring So You Cautionary Board Games and Scriptwriting Meet Up: Engineering Dragons, Life to Support Want a Tales for Workshop YA/MG and Creativity Revolution? First-time Fantasy Exploration Writers noon “Using Speaker How Cities So You Want To Kaffeklatsch Unwilling The Art of Flying Air- The Slush Pile Random: The Making Your Writing Clean Lovable for the Dead Grow Be a Shoutcaster with Larry Heroes School Visits planes and Simulator Ugliest Word Characters Fiction that Bad Boys to Teach Global Correia Helicopters in Gaming Look Unique Still Has Dirt Marketing” in It 1 pm Building a Jo Walton Gambling, Kaffeklatsch Art for Magic Sys- Record Your Scene or Playing It Multidisciplinary Interview Insurance, and with Alan Nonartists tems: Soft vs. Own Audio Summary by Ear: The Career Probability Bahr Hard Books and Genius of Voice-Overs Irving Berlin 2 pm More Mormons, How World- Kaffeklatsch Marketing Mythical “The Intuition of Book of How Weather Writing Spec Distinct Movies, and Shaking Technol- with Sarah Books Anatomy 101 the Revolution- Mormon Works Flash Dialogue Mormon Movies ogies Shake the Hoyt to Young ary Artist” Adaptations/ World Readers Inspirations 3 pm Books Kaffeklatsch Apoca- Love, The Art of Ultima, Might Making behind the with Jessica lypse vs. Sex, and Wayne Barlowe & Magic, Money Movies Day George Dystopia Romance Wizardry 4 pm Tools and Tips Crime Character Andre Ethics of A New Trend The Art of Writing Social Media The Baen for Creating Writing Workshop Norton Time Travel in the Movie Fun Fanfiction Marketing Traveling Film Scores and (2 hours) Industry Roadshow Soundtracks (2 hours) 5 pm Balancing the Making a Historical Fire- Paleontol- Collabora- Creating a Film Writing Chil- Lighting for Books Living as arms for Writers ogy for the tion and and Television dren’s Books Greenscreen an Artist Created Coauthors Miniseries World 6 pm String Theory The Edi- Kinship Systems Creating the Writing Your tor’s Panel from around the Complete YA Novel World Multimedia Experience 7 pm Jo Walton’s LTUE Film Magic Writers of the Bard For Starlings Festival Tournament Future Open Life: Atomic Book Launch Reception Theory 8 pm Filking Friday, February 16, 2018 Amphitheater Arches Birch Boardroom Bryce Canyon Cascade A Cascade B Cascade C Cedar Elm Maple Oak Zion 9 am Magic Systems Todd Kaffeklatsch Let There Be Write What You How Do I “The The Fourth Indus- Hans Zimmer The Phys- McCaffrey with Brandon Light Know Wreck This? Standard trial Revolution Is ical and Interview Mull Brandon upon Us Invisible Sanderson Layer Contract?” 10 am A Day in the Writing for Legion vs. Kaffeklatsch LGBQT in Aircraft at War Writing Spec Writing From Idea Create Your Own Don’t Freak Is Indie Writers of the Life of an Youth Phalanx with Dan SF/F Flash Groups 101 to Image Home Recording Out Publishing Future: Utah’s Agent Wells Studio (Part 1) Right for 20th Winner Me? 11 am Keynote Keynote Keynote Keynote noon Spinning Spinning Respond- Kaffeklatsch Maximizing How to Read Writing Sci- Create Your Own Emergent Narrative Well- Someone Wheels and Chocolate ing to with James Your Book Art ence Fiction Home Recording Developed Else’s Hero Fairy Tales to World Pandemics Minz Distribution Tropes Studio (Part 2) Political Building Systems Gold 1 pm “The Color of Begin- Kaffeklatsch RPGs for Octavia Butler The Role Why Write Poetry? Fashion and Cloth- Publicizing What It Costs Culture” nings and with Todd Writers of the LDS ing through the Your Novel: to Produce Endings McCaffrey Film Festi- Ages What Your Film and val in these Works, What How to Price Latter- Days Doesn’t Your Work 2 pm Staying Away What’s Your How to Run Kaffeklatsch Writing the LDS Film Seven Scripts and Board Game Monetizing Language Effective from the Manic Favorite a Con with David Opposite Festival Together Scribbles Recommendations Your Short Creation Networking for Pixie Dream Monster? Farland Gender Writing Op (or Longer) Workshop Authors and Girl Meet Up Films (2 hours) Artists 3 pm The Modern How I Got The Fourth Kaffeklatsch Why You Want Seven Balancing Plot Prewriting Blueprints Hindu Mad Scientist Is My Agent Language with L.E. to Write Horror Together and Character of a Video Mythology Alive and Well of Genre Modesitt, Jr. Writing Op for Scripts and Fiction Meet Up Fiction 4 pm Analyzing and Family Writing Kaffeklatsch Putting LDS From Seven “Perpetuation of Podcasting: How Normal Writing a This Time, It’s Writing Educa- History for Steampunk with Myke Themes in Ragnarok Together ‘Mother- Madonna, Not to Screw It Up Child Log Line or Personal: Art tional Parody Writers Cole Fiction to The Maze Writing Op Father-Devil’ in Development Improving Style Songs Runner Meet Up Guardians of the the Eleva- Galaxy, Vol. 2” tor Pitch 5 pm Learning from Adding “Empowering Writing Regional Hidden Seven From Functional The Future of Nights- Creating Writing Fantas- the Business Mystery Women in Meet Up: Popularity Disabilities Together to Fantastical: Virtual Reality capes in Movie tical Fantasy Side of Writing Game of Romance Writing Op Architecture in Art Watercolor and Book Excuses Thrones” Meet Up Trailers 6 pm Cuneiform, Drawing Self-Editing Leveraging How to be a SF/F: Were They Pass Along Speed Net- Hiero- the Mood: and the Draft Principles of “Kind-of Success- Ever the Same? Comic working with glyphs, Visual Cues Process Psychology in ful” Freelance Authors Alphabets Game Design Filmmaker 7 pm Book Sign- LTUE Film Festival Filking Valhalla— ing (Exhibit (8 pm) a Nordic Rock Hall A) Opera (8:30) Saturday, February 18, 2017 Amphitheater Arches Birch Boardroom Bryce Canyon Cascade A Cascade B Cascade C Cedar Elm Maple Oak Zion 9 am Powered Armor: Balancing Avoiding the Writing Writing Non­ “Fighting Swords and Finding Your Star Wars Telling a Story Writing a Map Making Design and Platform and Dreaded Meet Up: Sci­ human Points Captain Nazi” Spears and Audience Dresca: The with Images Log Line or Tactics Artistry Infodump ence Fiction of View Axes, Oh Making of a Improving My! (Medi­ Fan Film the Elevator eval Weap­ Pitch 10 am How to Run Biology and “Nietzsche’s Will Writing SF/F: What Short Stories Method Acting ons 101) The Making Creating How Can I The Art of a Killer Game Physiology to Power as a Meet Up: Would You in a Nutshell and Creating (2 hours) of BYUtv’s Backgrounds Make Money School Visits Kickstarter of Mythical Source of Magic” Horror Recommend? Characters Extinct and Layouts on YouTube? Creatures 11 am Keynote Keynote Keynote Keynote

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How do characters get thrust into the role of write music. If you want to create music, don’t Kaffeeklatsch hero, and how do they rise to the challenge? let your lack of training or experience stop Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) (Writing, Canyon) you. The panelists will discuss how Mr. Ber- Sarah Hoyt Renee Collins, Jason King, L. E. Modesitt Jr., lin worked around his limitations to create his Peter Orullian (m), Dan Wells masterpieces. (Theatre/Media Arts, Maple) Marketing Books to Young Readers Richard Franklin, Michael Jensen (m), Dene How can you convince a young reader to put Writing Clean Fiction That Still Has Dirt in It Low, Robert Starling down their Xbox controller and read your book? (Writing, Oak) Ways to connect with teen- and elementary-age Scene or Summary Charlie N. Holmberg readers through school visits, social media pres- Is it better to create a scene and work through ence, publicity, and other forms of communica- 1:00–1:45 PM (Th) it or to just give a summary of what happens? tion. (Professional Development, Bryce) (Writing, Elm) Art for Nonartists: The Basics of Turning Susan Chang, J. DeFranco, David Farland (m), Your Dreams into Visual Reality David Farland, Paul Genesse, Sarah Hoyt, J. Scott Savage Ever wondered if you were capable of art Ginny Smith (m), Dan Wells beyond stick figures? Learn some basics that More Mormons, Movies, and Mormon So You Want to Record Your Own Audio will enable you to begin your journey into Movies Books and Voice-Overs artistic expression. (Art, Bryce) Veteran LDS filmmaker Robert Starling goes Professional voice talent Tim McDonnell helps deeper into movies about Mormons by outsiders, Dustin Hansen, Greg Newbold, Rowan North, you understand the tips, tricks and processes for movies made by Mormons, and movies made Jemma M. Young (m) recording and editing your own audio books by the LDS Church itself. He also discusses the Building a Multidisciplinary Career: and voice overs. (Theatre/Media Arts, Cedar) current state (pros and cons) of the LDS movie ­Writing, Gaming, Film, Art, and More Tim McDonnell genre and ways to take this genre to the next level. (Theatre/Media Arts, Amphitheater) How to build a career across multiple fields, 2:00–2:45 PM (Th) as well as the pros and cons of working across Robert Starling multiple media. (Professional Development, Book of Mormon Adaptations/ Amphitheater) Inspirations Mythical Anatomy 101: How to Build Your Own Monster Bob Defendi, Maxwell Alexander Drake, Using the Book of Mormon (or other religious The most effective creatures are ones that look Laura Bedore Lerwill, Daniel Swenson texts) as an inspiration or direct adaptation material for a book or series. How did it turn like they could really exist. Making it happen Gambling, Insurance, and Probability: out? Does it work in sf/f? (Books, Elm) takes a little science, a little practice, and a Randomness for Fun and Profit little imagination. (Art, Canyon) J. Scott Bronson, Ann Chamberlin, Stan Crowe It would be nice if life were perfectly orderly, (m), Mette Ivie Harrison, David J. West Devon Dorrity (m), Dustin Hansen, Howard and everything happened as expected . . . but Tayler, Kaitlund Zupanic, Kip Rasmussen life has a tendency to throw curve balls at Distinct Dialogue us. How understanding probability for fun Do some of your characters sound the same “The Intuition of the Revolutionary Artist (gambling) and profit (insurance) has helped when speaking? Come learn some new ideas in Jack London’s The Iron Heel” to both destabilize and stabilize our society. to help change up a character’s way of speak- (Academics, Cedar) (Worldbuilding, Birch) ing and also adding more depth to the charac- Thomas Ray Garcia ter. (Writing, Zion) L. Palmer (m), Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao Writing Spec Flash M. Todd Gallowglas, Dene Low (m), Peter Guest of Honor Interview: Jo Walton (Writing, Oak) Orullian, Ginny Smith, Dan Wells An interview with Jo Walton, Guest of Honor Suzanne W. Vincent at LTUE 2018. (Books, Arches) How Weather Works 3:00–3:45 PM (Th) Jo Walton Weather is affected by all sorts of factors. How do oceans, mountains, latitude, tilt, and mag- Apocalypse vs. Dystopia Kaffeeklatsch netic fields all contribute to weather? What Stories set in the remains of collapsed civiliza- Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) happens when these variables are changed? tions are a staple of science fiction and fan- Alan Bahr (Worldbuilding, Maple) tasy, but not all collapses are the same. How do apocalyptic societies differ from dystopian Magic Systems: Soft vs. Hard Shannon Babb, Erekson Holt, Sarah E. Seeley (m), Darci Stone ones? What elements do both types of stories Familiarity with magic systems is important have in common? (Writing, Bryce) for understanding social dynamics. What How World-Shaking Technologies Shake Spencer Ellsworth, Christine Haggerty, J. R. makes a magic system hard or soft? How the World Johansson, Luke Peterson (m) does the type of magic system affect stories? A new technology is not world shaking when (Worldbuilding, Canyon) it starts, it is a new idea that is looking for a Books behind the Movies Brian Lee Durfee, M. Todd Gallowglas( m), way to be useful—useful enough that people GoT, Man in the High Castle, Shannara, A Wrinkle Megan Hutchins, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Emily Martha will invest time and money in developing it. in Time. What makes a story a good candidate Sorensen This first use is the “commodity use.” If the for adaptation? What made these books attrac- technology is hot, people using it will the dis- tive? Which books have deserved it? What oth- Playing It by Ear: The Genius of Irving Berlin cover interesting “surprise uses” and those are ers need to be done? (Books, Arches) Irving Berlin created world-class songs and the world-shaking uses. (Worldbuilding, Birch) Blake Casselman, Brandon Ho (m), Dennis musicals without knowing how to read or Roger Bourke White Jr. Packard, Paul Genesse 27 Recordings at LTUE

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Kaffeeklatsch Strange and Fantastical: The Art of Wayne other genres? (Writing, Arches) Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Barlowe Bob Defendi, Mette Ivie Harrison, Sarah Hoyt, Jessica Day George Appreciating and learning from the art of a Johnny Worthen (m) highly accomplished master in science fiction Ethics of Time Travel Love, Sex, and Romance and fantasy. (Art, Cedar) Developing time travel would undoubtedly Romance is often banished to its own genre Devon Dorrity, Joe Monson (m), Bobbie open the door to much mischief. What kinds but is actually essential to all genres and sto- Berendson W., David J. West ries. How to include romance in your fiction. of guidelines and laws might be developed so (Writing, Canyon) Ultima, Might & Magic, Wizardry: Lessons that the conscientious time traveler can do from the Grandparents of Modern RPGs so ethically? (Worldbuilding, Canyon) Stan Crowe, A. J. Klaich, Jonathan LaForce, Dene Low (m) A look at some of the earliest, most influen- J. David Baxter (m), Tom Durham, Frank tial video game RPGs (as well as some newer Morin, Paul H. Smith Making Money games) for a primer on how to make a power- A New Trend in the Movie Industry: The How does money arise in a society? How do ful game today. (Gaming, Oak) Benefit and Power of Online Movie Studios various monetary policies affect a society? Christopher Baxter What might people use as alternatives to money, The upcoming trend for screenwriters, actors, when monetary policy goes awry? (World- 4:00–4:45 PM (Th) directors, producers to collaborate through building, Zion) Andre Norton: Grande Dame of Science PLOTSA the online Movie Studio. Please bring your laptop to get started on the site. Bob Defendi (m), Jeb Kinnison, Alicia McIntire, Fiction and Fantasy (Theatre/Media Arts, Cedar) L. E. Modesitt Jr., Roger Bourke White Jr. Andre Norton’s works and her impact on other authors, both male and female. (Books, Bryce) Dr. Dennis Packard Dene Low (m), John M. Olsen, Robert Starling Tools and Tips for Creating Film Scores and Soundtracks The Art of Fun: Intro to Game This presentation/demo on film scoring Design shows some of the tools and methods used for film scoring and creating soundtracks. You’ll Games are power- learn some simple music theory and see/hear ful tools to create some scoring examples from a few of the positive social expe- great film composers. (Theatre/Media Arts, riences. What causes Amphitheater) fun, and how do we get folks to have fun Jay Packard with games? Is “fun” What’s In and What’s Out in Social Media always the goal of a Marketing game? (Gaming, Elm) You want to get the word out about your Alan Bahr, Ste- book, but you don’t want to spend half your phen Gashler, Dustin day building a presence on a dozen different Hansen (m), TJ da social media platforms. This panel will help Roza you use the time you have to greatest effect. Crime Writing (Professional Development, Oak) What sets crime fic- Jason King (m), Wendy Knight tion apart from other Writing Fan Fiction genres? Can themes Sometimes we have an opportunity to con- from this type of fic- tribute to a universe that another writer has tion be explored in 28 in association with Life, the Universe, and Everything Extends the invitation to attend our 3-Day Summer Writers Conference during the Film Festival for only $50

• Hear from and meet first handproducers, directors, actors and film distributors • Learn what types of stories are in demand and how to craft them • Register now for $10 and receive FREE the VIP Film Festival PASS (valued at $80) to watch our slate of great films & receive significant discounts inbeautiful Park City at hotels, restaurants and Summer- Fun outdoor attractions! • Preferential Updates on the latest & greatest with the Film Festival & Writers Conference • Your $10 registration is credited towards the 3-day writers conference fee of $50. AND get a special VIP Tour of the new state-of-the-art Park City Motion Picture Studio where Kevin Costner is currently filming his new series “Yellowstone.” Register now at: www.parkcityfilmfest.org created. How does writing in someone else’s sign up required ahead of time. (Professional actually better than one? Why do people work world affect your own writing? What kinds of Development, Boardroom) together? Do you need a contract? Here are challenges present themselves when writing Jo Walton some ideas on how to organize an efficient in someone else’s world? What are the legal coauthoring partnership. (Writing, Canyon) 5:00–5:45 PM (Th) issues? (Writing, Maple) Paul Genesse (m), Michael Jensen, David Pow- Spencer Ellsworth, Julie Frost, A. J. Klaich Balancing the Books: Creating a Business ers King, Todd McCaffrey, Sandra Tayler Plan for Your Creative Career 4:00–5:45 PM (Th) Historical Firearms for Writers: Elizabe- Not every writer or creator gets to quit than to WWI The Baen Traveling Roadshow(2 hours) their day job. Not every one wants to, either. Come see the dazzling covers, larger than life! Whatever your career goal looks like, smart An overview of common firearms, showing Listen to editor Jim Minz and select Baen planning will be critical to get you there. (Pro- the evolution of small arms systems from authors chat about new and upcoming titles fessional Development, Amphitheater) the mid-sixteenth century through the early twentieth century. Along with background from Baen. Win free books! (Books, Zion) m Larry Correia, Jonna Hayden ( ), Brad R. on major developments, we’ll cover common D. J. Butler, Larry Correia, James Minz, Eric Torgersen firearms pitfalls in fiction and how to get it James Stone, Brad R. Torgersen Collaboration and Coauthors right, with images and in-classroom represen- Character Workshop (2 hours) Whether you are writing with another per- tative examples. (Worldbuilding, Birch) Learn about creating vivid characters from son, writing in someone else’s world, or Gordon Frye guest of honor Jo Walton. Space limited; working with an illustrator, are two heads

29 Lighting for Green Screen String Theory—“Building a Fantasy World 7:00–11:45 PM (Th) Go in depth (in a workshop-like demonstra- with Believable Clothing” LTUE Film Festival (6 hours) tion and presentation) about lighting and String—clothing is made from string, whether Schedule subject to change. (Cedar) filming green-screen scenes. (Theatre/Media the source is fiber or fauna—adding depth • Extinct (BYUtv episode), introduced by Arts, Oak) and consistency to your world means paying Aaron Johnston with QA after (~ 1 hour). Stephanie Ollerton attention to how clothing production fits in • “The Adventures of Captain Blackbone and your culture. You can’t have gold lamé dresses the Crew of the Fetid Scallop” (comedy car- Making a Living as an Artist: Is Fame the if you don’t have mining, mountains, and Same as Success? toon, 3m), Gangrene metal smiths! Learn the basics for essential • “Some Like It Bot” (a human sneaks into Everyone wants to know how to make it in clothing production for simple to advanced a robots only bar—tech/geek comedy, 8m), the business. But that doesn’t always mean worlds, and what clues you can place in your Crystal Kelly being a household name. Here’s how to tell if world’s technology level to support your • “Oh What a Pretty Web” (two brothers learn you’ve made it. (Art, Arches) vision. (Art, Amphitheater) from the consequences of lying, 17m), Joseph Dennis Dorrity, Devon Dorrity( m), Jessica Jonna Hayden Ahlman Douglas, Bobbie Berendson W. The Editor’s Panel • “Oceantics” (cartoon, 2m), Joseph Ahlman • “I Love My Robot Boyfriend” (making the Paleontology for the Created World Editors discuss the things they like to see in perfect (robot) boyfriend leads to some very Now that you’ve created or discovered a new your manuscript and mistakes you should interesting (and unexpected) consequences, world, what can you expect its prehistoric avoid. (Writing, Arches) life to be like? How would the fossil record high-tech romantic comedy, 18m), Sariah Daniel Craig Friend, Lisa Mangum, James May, director be affected by life (mythical or otherwise) or Minz (m), Joshua J. Perkey, Suzanne W. Vincent robots that were created? (Worldbuilding, • “Acting Reels” (a brief example of a successful Bryce) Writing Your YA Novel acting portfolio in English and Spanish, 4m), Young adult novels are a unique phenomenon Richie Franklin John K. Lundwall, Rowan North (m), Nikhil • “Mediconnect Global—Mission MediaCon- Pillarisetti Rao, Josi Russell, Sarah E. Seeley with unique concerns. Learn how to address those concerns and get your YA novel into the nect” (comedy, high-tech “Mission Impossible”– Creating a Film and Television Series hands of young adults. (Writing, Zion) like records retrieval, 5m), Richie Franklin • “Hold On” (a powerful outreach for Han- Producer Lyman Dayton and professor Den- Susan Chang, Jessica Day George, Christine nis Packard discuss the creation of the upcom- dling Depression by The Hope Squad at Haggerty, Frank Morin (m), Keary Taylor MVHS, Orem, 4m), Easton Parkhurst ing Seven Together series and opportunities for writer participation. (Theatre/Media Arts, 7:00–8:45 PM (Th) • “Mythomania” (comedy, recognizing the implausible and overcoming gullibility, 9m), Cedar) Bard for Life: Atomic Theory (2 hours) Craig Nybo Lyman Dayton, Dennis Packard Prepare yourselves for an experience like none • “Sudden Death” (comedy, finally, a brilliant Writing Children’s Books other as author M. Todd Gallowglas steps out musical where everyone dies, or do they? from behind his keyboard and onto the stage How writing books for children differs from 20m), Mildly Fearsome Films to amaze and delight you. Combining Irish folk writing for other demographics. (Writing, Elm) • “El Murcielago” (dark drama in English and tales and legends along with bits and pieces of Spanish, 14m), Ruston Jones, Richie Franklin D. J. Butler, Susan Chang, J. DeFranco, Jessica his own life, Gallowglas will take you on a jour- Day George, Dustin Hansen (m) ney through wilds of Ireland and will approach 8:00 PM (Th) the study of ATOMIC THEORY like you’ve 6:00–6:45 PM (Th) Bardic Circle never known before. This ain’t a cute little sto- Creating the Complete Multimedia rytelling session at your local library, this is a We will be playing and singing filk music. Experience storytelling EXTRAVAGANZA. If you saw last Come join us! (Elm) Creating animations, and Adding audio, video year’s show, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. (Zion) and animations to your ebooks. Plus other M. Todd Gallowglas tips and tools for creating audio and Autis- Friday, February 16, 2018 ticWildclaw video compilations. (Theatre/ Jo Walton’s Starlings Book Launch 9:00–9:45 AM (F) Media Arts, Cedar) Join us in celebrating the release of Jo’s new Guest of Honor Interview Joseph Ahlman book Starlings. (Boardroom) An interview with Todd McCaffrey, Guest of Kinship Systems from around the World Jo Walton Honor of LTUE 2018. (Books, Arches) Every society has ideas on how families Magic Tournament (3 hours) Todd McCaffrey should be organized. We will be looking at the Gather for a night of Magic and play with Hans Zimmer: Telling the Story with Music various non-Western structures of tribes and some of your favorite presenters in a tourna- If you take the soundtrack away from a good kinship systems, and how these systems affect ment hosted by Dragon’s Keep. (Maple) movie, you lose half of the story. Hans Zim- the lives of individuals in them. (Worldbuild- Writers of the Future Open Reception mer is taking his place alongside John Wil- ing, Birch) liams for his skill in writing great music for Ann Chamberlin (m), Megan Hutchins, Dan- Meet the winners! (Oak) films. Come learn some of the tips and tricks iel Jeffery, Stephanie Ollerton, Nikhil Pillarisetti he uses to “tell the story musically.” This panel Rao will help you understand and appreciate

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how the movie producer and composer work Magic Systems This is the next best thing to being in the engi- together. (Theatre/Media Arts, Elm) (Writing, Amphitheater) neering room of a professional studio. (The- atre/Media Arts, Cedar) Renee Collins (m), Stephen Gashler, Dennis Charlie Pulsipher Packard, Jay Packard Craig Nybo The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is upon Us How Do I Wreck This? The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us: A Day in the Life of an Agent Not everyone is mechanically inclined, and How to understand and extrapolate emerging What does an agent actually do (besides make that’s okay. This class is a basic rundown of technologies to create near future Science Fic- or break all your hopes and dreams)? Take a how different vehicles work—from motor- tion that lasts? Terminator isn’t our only future, look inside the daily life of an agent to find out cycles to passenger vehicles, all the way up to let’s talk about the world continuing rather who they are, what they do, and why it matters. semi-trucks and construction equipment—as than imploding. (Worldbuilding, Cedar) (Professional Development, Amphitheater) well as a list of ways that writers might authen- Donna Milakovic Jennifer Jenkins tically compromise these vehicles in their stories. (I am a professional motorist with The Physical and Invisible Layer: The Cycle Don’t Freak Out: How to Talk to an Agent numerous endorsements on a Class A CDL.) of the Protagonist or Editor Bonus segment: a rant about Hollywood, and (Writing, Oak) Your palms are sweating, knees are shaking, you can taste the adrenaline in the back of how its writers know jack squat about trucks. Maxwell Alexander Drake (Worldbuilding, Cascade A) your mouth, your dream agent is just ten feet Graham Bradley Write What You Know: Getting Ideas from away. How do you stop freaking out and get Everyday Skills the nerve to go talk to them? Come explore “I Was Hoping for the Standard Brandon They say that you should write what you know, some tips and tricks to making sure your first Sanderson Contract?” but what does that mean? Join this discussion impression is a great one. (Professional Devel- Contracts can make or break your future as on generating ideas from everyday skills and opment, Maple) an author. Your future is in the details, and tasks. (Writing, Canyon) Kenna Blaylock, Charlie N. Holmberg, Emily you don’t want to screw this up. Come learn Heather Frost, Megan Hutchins, L. E. Modes- R. King, Lisa Mangum, Luke Peterson (m) the essentials you need to know to ensure that itt Jr., Wendy Nikel, Howard Tayler( m) contract works for you. (Professional Devel- From Idea to Image: How to Develop an Idea opment, Cascade B) 10:00–10:45 AM (F) So you know how to make a pretty picture— Jennifer Jenkins, Jason King, Matthew Kirby, Aircraft at War how do you create something truly unique? Developing an idea into a compelling visual Eric James Stone (m) Since their creation, airplanes and helicop- takes some skill, and learning from an expert ters have become important in warfare. How Kaffeeklatsch always helps. (Art, Cascade C) these are used, and how they affect logistics Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) and strategy. (Worldbuilding, Canyon) Graham Bradley, Mike Lovins, Greg Newbold, Brandon Mull Rowan North (m), Kip Rasmussen Kevin Evans, Laura Henriksen (m), L. E. Let There Be Light: Lighting and Shading Modesitt Jr., Brad R. Torgersen Is Indie Publishing Right For Me? in Art Create Your Own Home Recording Studio When you’re ready to take your precious Mimicking realistic lighting is critical to add- manuscript out into the publishing world, and Learn How to Use It (Part 1) ing an illusion of depth to an image. Learn the first big question you’ve got to ask your- Professional musician Craig Nybo discusses how to do it effectively. (Art, Bryce) self is are you going to go traditional or indie the equipment you need and shows you how publishing. Indie publishing is an incredible Dennis Dorrity, Brian C. Hailes, Mike Lovins to use it. This is a live recording session with opportunity for authors, but it’s not the right (m), Cara Stratton, Jemma M. Young a full complement of recording equipment decision for every author. Come learn about and musical instruments. Craig masterfully the highs and lows of indie publishing and records and mixes a new song from scratch. 32 Mass Book Signing Friday, 6–7:50 pm, Exhibit Hall A (Utah Valley Convention Center, ground floor)

Subject to change. You are also welcome to ask authors to sign books before or after panels, but please be courteous and defer to their schedule. A. J. Klaisch Christine Haggerty Eric James Stone Jessica Day George Matthew Kirby Roger Bourke Alan Bahr Clark Chamberlain Frank Morin Jessica Douglas Maxwell Alexander White Jr. Angela Hartley Craig Nybo Ginny Smith Jo Walton Drake Ryan Decaria Ann Chamberlin D. J. Butler Graham Bradley John K. Lundwall McKelle George Sarah Euphemia Blake Casselman Dan Wells Greg Newbold John M Olsen Megan Hutchins Seeley Brandon Barrus Daniel Swenson Heather Frost Johnny Worthen Melissa McShane Sarah Hoyt Brian C. Hailes Dave Wolverton Heather Wallace Joseph Ahlman Mette Ivie Harrison Scott E. Tarbet Brian Lee Durfee David J. West Howard Tayler Josi Russell Michael Gallowglas Scott R. Parkin Brian McClellan David Powers King J. Scott Savage Julie Frost Michael Jensen Spencer Ellsworth Bryan Young Dene Low J. David Baxter Kal Spriggs Myke Cole Stan Crowe C. A. Preece Dennis Dorrity Janci Patterson Karen C. Evans Paul Genesse Stephen Gashler C. K. Edwards Dennis Packard Jason King Kathryn Purdie Paul Smith Todd McCaffrey C. R. Langille Dustin Hansen Jay Barnson Kjirstin Youngberg Peter Orullian Valerie J.O. Gardner Callie Stoker Els Curtis Jeb Kinnison L. E. Modesitt Jr. Renee Collins Wendy Knight Cary David Belt Emily Martha Jemma M. Young L. Palmer Robert J Defendi Wendy Nikel Caryn Larrinaga Sorensen Jennifer Jenkins Larry Correia Robert Starling Charlie N. Holmberg Emily Rittel-King Jennifer Moore Liesel Hill Robison Wells Charlie Pulsipher Eric G. Swedin Jess Smart Smiley M. A. Nichols decide if it’s the right step for your writing Writing for Youth engineering room of a professional studio. career. (Professional Development, Oak) What makes a book YA or MG? (Writing, (Theatre/Media Arts, Cedar) M. A. Nichols Arches) Craig Nybo Kaffeeklatsch J. DeFranco, Jessica Day George, Matthew Emergent Narrative Kirby, Brandon Mull, J. Scott Savage (m) Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Games are unique in their ability to create Dan Wells Writing Groups 101 new stories. How to design games that gener- A writer’s group is a great way to improve your ate interesting stories. (Gaming, Elm) Legion vs. Phalanx: A Brief History of the writing, but how do you make the most of it? Jay Barnson, Myke Cole (m), Daxon Levine, Evolution of Infantry Tactics in the Hel- Find out how to turn your writer friends into Howard Tayler lenistic World a powerful resource. (Writing, Cascade B) Writing realistic fantasy battles requires a real How to Read Art Bob Defendi, C. K. Edwards, McKelle George understand of the history of warfare. From Art, especially the high-brow stuff, takes a (m), A. J. Klaich the time of ancient Sumeria, the heavy infan- little deciphering, much like a poem. Learn try phalanx dominated the battlefield until Writing Spec Flash how to understand the meanings behind the the Roman legion eclipsed the phalanx as the (Writing, Cascade A) images. (Art, Canyon) masters of infantry battle. Take a detailed look Suzanne W. Vincent Devon Dorrity, Mari Murdock, Bobbie at each formation and examine up to six doc- Berendson W. (m) umented battles in which the legion fought 11:00–11:45 AM (F) Indie Authors: Maximizing Your Book the phalanx. (Worldbuilding, Birch) Keynote Address Distribution Myke Cole (Zion/Bryce/Arches/Canyon) You’ve gone indie, hurray! Now . . . how do you LGBQT in SF/F Jo Walton sell books? We will explore the ins and outs of Authors and characters—advances being 12:00–12:45 PM (F) getting your book into the hands of readers made in the field by LGBQT authors and/or and the all elusive distributors. (Professional authors who use LGBQT characters. (Books, Create Your Own Home Recording Studio Development, Bryce) and Learn How to Use It Bryce) (Part 2) Clark Chamberlain (m), Larry Correia, Ste- Professional musician Craig Nybo discusses J. Scott Bronson, Michael Jensen (m), Jeb Kin- phen Gashler the equipment you need and shows you how nison, Scott R. Parkin to use it. This is a live recording session with Kaffeeklatsch Writers of the Future: Utah’s 20th Winner a full complement of recording equipment Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) (Zion) and musical instruments. Craig masterfully James Minz David Farland, Julie Frost, Darci Stone, Eric records and mixes a new song from scratch. James Stone This is the next best thing to being in the 33

Responding to Pandemics Fashion and Clothing through the Ages The Role of the LDS Film Festival in These The possibility of great destruction from dis- Fashion has always been fickle. How clothing Latter-Days ease always looms over societies. How did has varied over the years. (Worldbuilding, Elm) Join Kels Goodman, president of the LDS societies respond to pandemics? How would Gordon Frye, Jonna Hayden, Jennifer Moore, Film Festival, in a discussion about the role a society respond to a pandemic today? How Sandra Tayler, Bobbie Berendson W. (m) of the LDS Film Festival. There will also be might disease affect a medieval town or a screenings of various short films directly fol- space colony? (Worldbuilding, Birch) Kaffeeklatsch lowing the presentation. (Theatre/Media Sofiya Pasternack, Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao, Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Arts, Cascade B) Eric G. Swedin (m) Todd McCaffrey Kels Goodman Someone Else’s Hero Mildly Unsettling: The Art of Edward Gorey 2:00–2:45 PM (F) Some heroes are heroic, others are not. How Edward Gorey proved you can inspire night- Board Game Recommendations do you write a dynamic hero who has the mares with nothing more than a pen and a Come and hear about these panelists’ favorite capacity to learn and grow? (Writing, Zion) piece of paper. Learn how his deceptively board games. Then you can share your favor- straightforward art made a dramatic impact. David Farland, Caryn Larrinaga, Todd ite board games too. (Gaming, Elm) McCaffrey, Dennis Packard (m), Kathryn Purdie (Art, Birch) Alan Bahr, Jess Lindsay (m), Dan Wells Dustin Hansen, James Wymore Spinning Chocolate to World Building Gold Effective Networking for Authors and Octavia Butler Chocolate as an exploration of the senses. Artists Writers need to enrich their imagery beyond Discussion of Octavia Butler’s works, her Networking, networking, networking! But how, sight and hearing. Paint your story with all impact, and your favorites. (Books, Canyon) and with whom? (Professional Development, your senses. (Worldbuilding, Arches) Spencer Ellsworth (m), Laura Henriksen, Zion) Karen Evans Scott R. Parkin J. R. Johansson, Emily R. King, Brian McClel- Spinning Wheels and Fairy Tales Publicizing Your Novel: What Works, lan, Donna Milakovic What Doesn’t (Writing, Amphitheater) How to Run a Con: LTUE 2018 There’s a lot of crazy advice floating around out Elizabeth Buck Come join this year’s committee chair Alicia there about how to publicize your book. What’s McIntire and learn how you can volunteer Well-Developed Political Systems: Who bad advice? What’s good? What’s been out of with LTUE. (Birch) Got It Right? date for 20 years, or is just a fad? This panel will Who did a good job on political systems? dive into the nuts and bolts of how to get your Alicia McIntire Which books are the best at showing XYZ book out there as efficiently and effectively as Kaffeeklatsch political system? Authors that improved? possible. (Professional Development, Maple) Holes in the systems? (Books, Maple) Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Myke Cole, Angie Fenimore, Jennifer Jenkins, David Farland Gordon Frye (m), Jeb Kinnison, L. E. Modes- Wendy Knight (m) itt Jr., M. A. Nichols, Luke Peterson Monetizing Your Short (or Longer) Films RPGs for Writers Writing Science Fiction Tropes Expert and professional filmmakers discuss How to use RPGs to test out ideas for your the film market, and talk about ways to Learn about the tropes that make the science writing. (Gaming, Bryce) fiction genre what it is, and how to use or help you promote, license, or sell your own Brandon Mull, Janci Patterson, Jo Walton subvert those tropes in your writing. (Writ- short (or longer) films. (Theatre/Media Arts, ing, Cascade B) What It Costs to Produce Your Film and Maple) Bob Defendi (m), C. K. Edwards, Charlie N. How to Price Your Work Richard Franklin, Robert Hatch, Stephanie Holmberg, John M. Olsen Brandon Ho and team give you new insights Ollerton (m) about how to price/value your work. Their 1:00–1:45 PM (F) Scripts and Scribbles: Turning Written information comes from interviewing local and Descriptions into Visual Character Design Beginnings and Endings national people from a variety of different film Everyone has an idea of what the hero or The beginning and the ending are two of the backgrounds and collecting data from them villain in a story looks like. Sometimes as most critical parts of your story. Find out how about how they determine the cost or bids for an artist, though, you’re asked to create the to hook your readers at the beginning and what they do. (Theatre/Media Arts, Zion) definitive, canonic representation. How do how to wrap up to a satisfying conclusion. Brandon Ho you turn that nebulous written concept into (Writing, Arches) Why Write Poetry? a compelling image? (Art, Cedar) Jessica Day George, Charlie N. Holmberg (m), Brian Lee Durfee, Dennis Dorrity, Jessica David Powers King, Peter Orullian Some might argue that poetry is a dying form, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Douglas, Brian C. Hailes, Jonna Hayden (m) “The Color of Culture: Using Fine Arts and This panel discusses why the value of poetry Staying Away from the Manic Pixie Dream Aspects of Culture in Fantasy and Science to today’s writers is far greater than its share Girl and Other Underwritten Female Fiction” of the market. (Writing, Cedar) Characters (Academics, Amphitheater) Richard Franklin, M. Todd Gallowglas (m), Some tropes are so common that we can fall Bruce Allred, E.A. Younker Christine Haggerty, Suzanne W. Vincent into them without realizing it. How to create

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full and interesting female characters. (Writ- 3:00–3:45 PM (F) Kaffeeklatsch ing, Amphitheater) Balancing Plot and Character for Scripts Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Kathryn Purdie, A. J. Klaich (m), Keary Taylor, and Fiction L. E. Modesitt Jr. Ariadne Kane Creating Character Driven Scripts and Stories The Modern Mad Scientist Is Alive and What’s Your Favorite Monster? with Strong Plots. We often talk about plot Well in Pop Culture and Fiction driven movies, but if we don’t love the charac- Monsters in SF/F: Why do they work? Which The mad-scientist trope has endured well ters we easily lose interest. Chersti helps find ones are your favorites? Trends in monsters. from its infancy with Doctors Frankenstein, the right balance. (Theatre/Media Arts, Cedar) Are our monsters simply reflections of the real Rotwang, and Moreau. We’ll explore the monsters in life? (Books, Arches) Chersti Nieveen modern mad scientist, and her megaloma- Caryn Larrinaga, James Minz (m), Larry Cor- Blueprints of a Video: How to Storyboard nia, curiosity, and obsession. We’ll discuss reia, Ryan Decaria Effectively the plucky Jillian Holtzman (Ghostbusters), the ambitious Holden Radcliffe ( Writing the Opposite Gender A storyboard is often the first visual represen- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), the tormented Walter Bishop Tips for writing a gender not your own. tation of what a video will eventually become. (Fringe), and many others both virtuous and (Writing, Bryce) That work sets the foundation for the cinema- tography that follows. Learn how to do it well. villainous. What makes these characters so Heather Frost, Brandon Mull, Ginny Smith (Art, Maple) compelling? And how has the mad-scientist (m), Johnny Worthen trope evolved in the last two hundred years? Richard Franklin, Robert Hatch, Mike Lovins (Books, Amphitheater) Seven Together Writing Opportunity Meet (m), Robert Starling and Greet Ryan Decaria The Fourth Language of Genre Fiction This is the first open workshop session for Prewriting screenwriters interested in working on the In his book How Fiction Works, James Wood claims, “the novelist is working with at least What are some of the benefits of prewriting? Seven Together project. You are welcome to How much is too much? In what ways will attend any or all sessions. (Cascade C) three languages.” Hey, the guy teaches English at Harvard, so he’s probably on to something. prewriting make me a better writer? (Writ- Lyman Dayton, Dr. Dennis Packard Scholar of genre literature, M. Todd Gallow- ing, Elm) 3:00–7:45 PM (F) glas, suggests a fourth language, one of vast D. J. Butler, David Farland, Heather Frost, Melissa McShane (m), Kathryn Purdie LDS Film Festival importance to genre fiction, largely specific to (4 hours) science fiction and fantasy. Find out what these Screenings as time permits: “I Love My Robot Seven Together Writing Opportunity Meet four languages are and how having a conscious Boyfriend!” (short film), “Village of Light and Greet understanding of how to weave these lan- (documentary), “Little Drummer Boy” by This is the second open workshop session for guages together will create a more immersive J.ournal (music video), “Hidden in the Heart- screenwriters interested in working on the experience for your readers. (Writing, Birch) land by Manifest Destiny (TV series episode), Seven Together project. You are welcome to M. Todd Gallowglas Trek (feature film). (Cascade B) attend any or all sessions. (Cascade C) Kels Goodman Hindu Mythology Lyman Dayton, Dr. Dennis Packard 3:00–4:45 PM (F) A description of the Hindu pantheon, and its Why You Want to Write Horror myths and legends. (Worldbuilding, Zion) Have you ever tried writing a horror story? Language Creation Workshop (2 hours) John K. Lundwall, Charlie Pulsipher( m), Or what about adding horror to your non- How do you create realistic-ish languages for Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao your new world? Learn techniques for lan- horror story? If you haven’t, let us convince guage creation. (Worldbuilding, Oak) How I Got My Agent you on why you should. (Writing, Canyon) Dirk Elzinga How to find an agent! (Professional Develop- Scott Forman, C. R. Langille, Caryn Larrinaga ment, Arches) (m), Dan Wells Angie Fenimore, Brian McClellan, Emily R. King, J.R. Johansson, Myke Cole (m)

36 4:00–4:45 PM (F) Putting LDS Themes in Fiction From Functional to Fantastical: Architec- Analyzing and Writing Educational Parody Not all LDS writers write LDS fiction, but ture in Art Songs their principles still influence their work. Whether you’re in space or in Middle Earth, Jenette reviews the best of the best educa- Learn how to use LDS themes without being people need somewhere to live, work, and tional parody music. She shows how the com- overtly religious. (Writing, Bryce) play. Building the structures of the world is bination of music and rhythm mixed with D. J. Butler, Brandon Mull, Scott R. Parkin, part of the immersion. (Art, Cedar) educational lyrics help us learn faster and Josi Russell (m) Brian Lee Durfee, Brian C. Hailes (m), Charlie remember longer. You may even be inspired Pulsipher, Richard Lance Russell Seven Together Writing Opportunity Meet to write your own educational parodies. (The- and Greet The Future of Virtual Reality atre/Media Arts, Amphitheater) This is the third open workshop session for Applications of VR in gaming and the real Jenette Scott screenwriters interested in working on the world. (Gaming, Elm) “Dead Dad, Bad Dad, No Dad, Real Sad: Seven Together project or learning how to use Jay Barnson, J. David Baxter (m), Dustin Perpetuation of ‘Mother-Madonna, Father- the Online Scripting Studio. You are welcome Hansen, Donna Milakovic Devil’ in ” to attend any or all sessions. (Cascade C) Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 Hidden Disabilities (Academics, Cedar) Lyman Dayton, Dr. Dennis Packard From diabetes to depression, from chronic Alyssa Steed This Time, It’s Personal: Developing a Per- back pain to cancer, many of us suffer from Family History for Writers sonal, Unique Art Style disabilities that others around us, to one How does the past heritage and future legacy Just as writers need a unique voice, every artist degree or another, cannot see. How do people of a character affect the choices they might needs a recognizable style. Create a unique fla- live with such disabilities? How do myths and make? How might the genetic history of a vor worth imitating and replicating. (Art, Zion) misunderstandings affect personal interac- character affect how long the character will Graham Bradley (m), Devon Dorrity, Jessica tions with people who have such disabilities? live, and what kinds of medical challenges the Douglas, Greg Newbold, Bobbie Berendson W. (Worldbuilding, Canyon) Shannon Babb, Sofiya Pasternack (m), Nikhil character will face? (Worldbuilding, Arches) Writing a Log Line or Improving the Eleva- Pillarisetti Rao, Robison Wells Ann Chamberlin, Brian Lee Durfee, Spencer tor Pitch Ellsworth, Stephen Gashler( m), Ginny Smith A workshop where Blake Casselman takes Learning from the Business Side of Writing From Ragnarok to The Maze Runner: attendees through the process of construct- Excuses Apocalypse/Postapocalypse in Fiction ing a proper log line. (Professional Develop- Writing Excuses evolved from three guys in a The world is going to end . . . and then life goes ment, Oak) basement chatting about writing, to a major on. The hope or lack thereof in apocalyptic Blake Casselman business. This helped launch careers, gar- and postapocalyptic fiction. (Books, Canyon) ner thousands of listeners, and win Hugo Writing Steampunk awards. What does the business side look like, Peter Orullian( m), Dan Wells, Robison Wells Steampunk means all you need are gears and how does it operate, and what can you learn Kaffeeklatsch goggles, right? Of course not. The pros tell you about building a successful platform for you Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) how steampunk is more than what is on the writing career? (Professional Development, surface. (Writing, Birch) Amphitheater) Myke Cole Jess Lindsay, John M. Olsen, J. Scott Savage, Kenna Blaylock Normal Child Development Callie Stoker (m), Scott E. Tarbet Nightscapes in Watercolor Every month and every year from when a child 5:00–5:45 PM (F) is born, a child developing normally is expected Join local artist Jessica Douglas in a workshop to hit various milestones. We will cover these Adding Mystery where you will explore the complexities of milestones, and discuss ways a normal child Very mysterious. (Writing, Arches) painting with watercolors. (Art, Maple) might vary from them. (Worldbuilding, Maple) Larry Correia( m), Matthew Kirby, Peter Jessica Douglas Matthew Kirby, Sofiya Pasternack, Sandra Orullian, Ginny Smith, Johnny Worthen Regional Popularity: Who Do You Know m Tayler, Ariadne Kane ( ) Creating Movie and Book Trailers That We Should Too? Podcasting: How Not to Screw It Up Film professional Laura Palmer walks you Authors travel around and meet other authors, For some, podcasting serves as a major launch through designing and creating your own both indie and traditionally published. But pad for creative careers (Writing Excuses trailers. She will demonstrate the process with not everybody is popular everywhere. Who anyone?). Come learn how to use podcasting a primary focus on selecting and editing video do you know, that we should read too? (Books, to build a base of followers, what to avoid in and audio clips. (Theatre/Media Arts, Oak) Bryce) order to not create “yet another podcast,” and L. Palmer Graham Bradley, Myke Cole, M. Todd Gal- how to determine if podcasting is right for lowglas, Callie Stoker( m) you. (Professional Development, Elm) “Empowering Women in Game of : A Look at Comparisons between Seven Together Writing Opportunity Meet m Thrones Angie Fenimore, Daniel Swenson ( ), Bryan Dany:Margery, Cersei:Sansa, and and Greet Young Arya:Brienne” This is the fourth open workshop session for (Academics, Birch) screenwriters interested in working on the project or learning how to use Alyssa Steed Seven Together

37 the Online Scripting Studio. You are welcome Self-Editing and the Draft Process • “Doppelganger” (what if your evil alien “twin” to attend any or all sessions. (Cascade C) You’ve finished your draft, but revision is a wreaks havoc with your life, 25m), Blake Lyman Dayton, Dr. Dennis Packard very different process. Come learn what needs Casselman to change, where to begin, and how to avoid • “Kiss the Devil in the Dark” (what would you Writing Fantastical Fantasy being overwhelmed by this part of the process. do to save the love of your life? 30m), Blake What does it take to create a new world from (Writing, Bryce) Casselman scratch? Learn how to capture readers’ sense We will also show other short films or trail- Susan Chang, Dene Low (m), James Minz, of wonder, while weaving a compelling story. ers as time permits. Chersti Nieveen, Callie Stoker (Writing, Zion) 8:00 PM (F) Jessica Day George, Charlie N. Holmberg (m), SF/F: Were They Ever the Same? Todd McCaffrey, Brandon Mull, Jo Walton What are the origins of the two major genres? Bardic Circle When did it split? Were they ever the same? Writing Meet Up: Romance We will be playing and singing filk music. (Books, Elm) Come join us! (Oak) Are you looking for a writing group? Beta Jay Barnson (m), Sarah Hoyt, Todd McCaffrey, readers? Come hang out with fellow readers Scott E. Tarbet 8:30 PM (F) and writers of your favorite genres at this low- Valhalla—a Nordic Rock Opera key networking event. (Boardroom) Speed Networking with Authors Awarding-winning authors and entertainers Join Matthew Kirby and Brandon Mull for Stephen and Teresa Gashler will perform 6:00–6:45 PM (F) some informal speed networking and chatting. a one-hour concert of their latest musi- Cuneiform, Hieroglyphs, Alphabets: Cul- (Professional Development, Zion) tural Writing Systems cal adventure as they debut their brand Matthew Kirby (m), Brandon Mull new album. Vikings, valkyries, singing dead Writing systems have always been an impor- people—this concert’s got it all. If you think tant way for cultures to preserve their history 7:00–8:45 PM (F) vikings and rock music are a match made in for future generations. The history of writing Book Signing Valhalla, you know where to be. (Zion) systems and how those writing systems influ- Bring your books and meet your favorite ence their cultures. (Worldbuilding, Arches) authors. See the list on page 33. (Exhibit Hall A) Ann Chamberlin, Dirk Elzinga, Megan Saturday, February 17, 2018 Film Festival Hutchins, Daniel Jeffery( m), Josi Russell (6 hours) 9:00–9:45 AM (S) Schedule subject to change. (Cedar) Drawing the Mood: Visual Cues That Lead Balancing Platform and Artistry • ConLanging (creating language for science Your Viewer’s Emotions fiction and fantasy, 1h 35m), introduced by This panel will provide the roadmap you need There are a number of little “tricks” that art Logan Kearsley to sell your creative work, without selling your can use to evoke emotions and feelings in • “A Provo Romance” (a brilliant, hilarious soul. (Professional Development, Arches) viewers. Learn the basic tools of making this foray into dating “in Provo,” 11m), FHE3 Clark Chamberlain (m), L. E. Modesitt Jr., happen. (Art, Birch) • Research (comedy, what you don’t know, Sandra Tayler, Jo Walton Dennis Dorrity, Brian C. Hailes, Richard Lance can’t hurt you, or can it?, 9m), Mildly Fear- “Fighting Captain Nazi: The Comic Book’s Russell, Bobbie Berendson W.( m), Jemma M. Young some Films • “Above the Law” (Zombie movie, featuring Influence on a Generation of Soldiers” How to be a “Kind-of Successful” Freelance security guards, and a crazy old man, (Academics, Cascade A) Filmmaker Star Trek, 20m), Craig Nybo Carlin Cottam Local professional freelance filmmaker Bran- • “Space Monkeys” (cartoon, the story of a boy don Ho shows you the onramp and helps you and his mail-order monster, 14m), Gangrene Finding Your Audience understand the signs along the Freelance Film- • “Two Moments in Time” (one forgotten There are only seven different basic stories, maker’s highway. (Theatre/Media Arts, Cedar) woman is about to be remembered, short), but who you want to read it depends on how Brandon Ho Don Percy you write. This panel will cover writing the • “Paradise Lost” (Tales That Should Not Be— story for the audience you want to reach. Leveraging Principles of Psychology in never make a deal with the devil, 11m), Chu- (Writing, Cascade C) Game Design pacabra Pro, Gangrene Film Festival M. Todd Gallowglas (m), Wendy Knight, Josi Using what we know about the brain to make • “Madness on Black” (Tales That Should Not Russell, Howard Tayler your games interesting and engaging. (Gam- Be—the answer to “what is out there” may be Map Making ing, Canyon) worse than you think, 11m), Chupacabra Pro, Alan Bahr, Ryan Decaria (m), Daxon Levine, Gangrene Film Festival Maps have always been crucial for exploration. Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao, • (feature, foreign drama), The history of map making and how maps are Behind the Blue Door made today. (Worldbuilding, Zion) Pass-Along Comic Warren Workman • “Embers and Dust” (imagine your city power Brian Lee Durfee, Kevin Evans (m), John K. Join comics creator Jess Smart Smiley for an going out in the middle of listening to Orson Lundwall, Bobbie Berendson W. hour of making comics! We’ll be filling in Wells’s over the radio in 1938, blanks to complete comics, then starting our War of the Worlds Powered Armor: Design and Tactics 12m), Patrick Bieseman own pass-along comics that we make together Powered armor has always been a popular • “The Disintegration Machine” (what if you as a group. Bring something and someone to notion in military science fiction, as a notion, could “dissolve” anything the way salt melts in draw with. (Art, Oak) it’s slowly been gaining traction in modern water? short), Peter C. Davidson. Jess Smart Smiley 38 armies. How might power armor work? How Swords and Spears and Axes, Oh My! a proper log line. (Professional Development, would powered armor affect military tactics? (Medieval Weapons 101) (2 hours) Oak) (Worldbuilding, Amphitheater) Why is the idea of a three-foot bronze sword Blake Casselman Jonathan LaForce, C. A. Preece, Kal Spriggs wielded by an eleven year-old laughable? How Writing Nonhuman Points of View (m), Brad R. Torgersen hard is it to swing a war hammer? Heft actual weapons and armor ranging from the Bronze Not all characters in stories are human, yet Avoiding the Dreaded Infodump Age to the early twentieth century, and learn they can still provide important viewpoints Learn how to smoothly draw your reader how they were employed. (Worldbuilding, for a story. How do you get into the mind of a along the learning curve of your world and Cascade B) nonhuman so that the character’s nonhuman keep the plot ticking at the same time. (Writ- nature is preserved while keeping the charac- C. David Belt ing, Birch) ter relatable to the reader? (Writing, Bryce) Megan Hutchins Telling a Story with Images Angela Hartley (m), Dan Wells, Larry Correia, We’re all familiar with telling a story using Maxwell Alexander Drake : The Fan Film Awakens Star Wars Dresca words—we do it every day. But what about Writing Meet Up: Science Fiction Tom Durham takes you way behind the using images to tell a story? How do you con- scenes of a crazily ambitious, locally produced vey emotion and motion? Progression of time Are you looking for a writing group? Beta Star Wars fan film and introduces you to the and progression of ideas? How do you keep readers? Come hang out with fellow readers cast and crew. Find out what it takes to make things coherent when what the audience is and writers of your favorite genres at this low- a hi-end movie in your favorite galaxy far far getting is a series of snapshots? (Art, Elm) key networking event. (Boardroom) away. The full short film will be screened as Richard Lance Russell, Jemma M. Young, part of this presentation, so be one of the first 10:00–10:45 AM (S) to see it in this special LTUE event! Check out Writing a Log Line or Improving the Eleva- Biology and Physiology of Mythical the trailer at www.starwarsdresca.com. (The- tor Pitch Creatures atre/Media Arts, Cedar) A workshop where Blake Casselman takes Dragons, griffins, centaurs, werewolves, and so Jessica Champneys, Matt Champneys, Ali attendees through the process of constructing forth. What do we understand about the biology Durham, Tom Durham (m), Dave Skousen of mythical creatures? (Worldbuilding, Arches) 39 Devon Dorrity, C. A. Preece (m), Nikhil Pil- of the school visit. Kids can be a tough audi- How to Make a Real Living as a Writer: larisetti Rao, Sarah E. Seeley ence. Learn how to entertain, educate, and get Five Strategies to Make $200 an Hour the word out about your work. Come learn Writing is a mystery to most companies. Tap Creating Backgrounds and Layouts from the master of school visits, J. Scott Sav- into their need for great storytelling and con- While they’re never the focus, what happens age. (Professional Development, Oak) tent with these strategies for making a good in the background is often as important as the J. Scott Savage living as a writer. (Writing, Cascade A) foreground that contrasts it. Learn how to Dave Doering build an immersive world around your visual The Making of BYUtv’sExtinct subjects. (Art, Cedar) Join Aaron Johnston, Devin Bekins, and “Leia and Rey: Star Wars Women for a Bobbie Berendson W., Brian C. Hailes (m), Anna K. Findlay as they talk about creating Feminist Generation” Cara Stratton visual effects, costuming, designing and script- (Academics, Cedar) ing for BYUtv’s series. Aaron will also Extinct Alyssa Steed How Can I Make Money on YouTube? talk about his experience working with Orson There is money to be made on YouTube. It Scott Card. (Theatre/Media Arts, Cascade C) Pratchett vs Anthony: Humor in SF/F takes more than just posting videos. You need Aaron Johnston, Anna K. Findlay, Devin Bekins Who does it best? Douglas Adams too? Who a marketing strategy. You need to know your else? (Books, Cascade B) target audience. You need to have affiliate “Thus Spoke John Uskglass: Nietzsche’s Will Bob Defendi, Caryn Larrinaga, Steve Setzer accounts in place. Come listen to the panelists to Power as a Source of Magic in Jonathan (m), Emily Martha Sorensen discuss how you can sign up for monetization, Strange and Mr Norrell” create high-quality videos, how to promote (Academics, Birch) Showtunes Saturday Night: The Making of those videos with effective marketing and Paul Williams the Legendary Radio Show how to find the right affiliates. (Theatre/ Radio talk show host Laura Bedore Lerwill Media Arts, Elm) Writing Meet Up: Horror discusses the creation, the preparation for each Stephanie Ollerton, Robert Starling Are you looking for a writing group? Beta show, the music selection, the hosting, and the readers? Come hang out with fellow readers success and demise of the long-running show. How to Run a Killer Game Kickstarter and writers of your favorite genres at this low- (Theatre/Media Arts, Amphitheater) How to effectively use Kickstarter to fund key networking event. (Boardroom) Laura Bedore Lerwill your new game. (Gaming, Amphitheater) 11:00–11:45 AM (S) Alan Bahr, Stephen Gashler (m), Sandra Tay- Stories without Villains ler, Bryan Young, Jemma M. Young Keynote We often like stories with heroes and villains, (Zion/Bryce/Arches/Canyon) but not all stories need a villain. How does Method Acting and Creating Characters one keep the story moving when there is no Todd McCaffrey Are you looking to write memorable char- villain to provide conflict? (Writing, Elm) acters? Do you find it hard to relate to “the 12:00–12:45 PM (S) Myke Cole, Renee Collins, Peter Orullian, Cal- other” characters that are not like you? In Bite-Sized Fiction lie Stoker (m), Keary Taylor this presentation activity, professional actor and writer Richie Franklin will discuss how You don’t always need 200k words to tell Women in Gaming a story. Sometimes a few words are suffi- actors create deep, interesting characters and How women are represented in games and cient. The benefits of short fiction and how how those techniques can be used to do the how that affects women who play them. to be effective with these stories. (Writing, same in your writing. (Writing, Cascade A) (Gaming, Bryce) Cascade C) Richard Franklin Mari Murdock (m), Melissa McShane, Janci Megan Hutchins, Wendy Nikel, Eric James Patterson SF/F: What Would You Recommend to Stone, Brad R. Torgersen (m) Someone New to the Speculative Genres? Working with a Freelance Editor Character Development: How to Visually Many readers don’t like SF/F because it isn’t Show Change over Time Learn the secrets to getting the most out of “real” so they’ve never experienced it. What working with a freelance editor. (Professional People do more than just grow older, espe- would you recommend to pull a mystery Development, Canyon) cially in science fiction and fantasy. Learn how reader, or a historical reader, romance reader, Daniel Craig Friend, Charlie N. Holmberg, TJ etc. into SF/F? (Books, Bryce) to show character development with visual cues. (Art, Arches) da Roza, Sandra Tayler (m) D. J. Butler, Larry Correia, Ryan Decaria, Jes- Graham Bradley, Dennis Dorrity, Brian C. Writing Meet Up: Romance sica Day George, Scott R. Parkin (m) Hailes, Jonna Hayden (m), Jess Smart Smiley Are you looking for a writing group? Beta Short Stories in a Nutshell Designing Spaceworthy Ships readers? Come hang out with fellow readers How short stories are different than novels, and writers of your favorite genres at this low- Life support, radiation shielding, fuel: engi- how to write them, and where to sell them. key networking event. (Boardroom) (Writing, Canyon) neers have all sorts of constraints to consider when designing a spaceship. What is available YA vs. Middle Grade David Farland, Julie Frost (m), Wendy Nikel, for engineers to design a ship, and how does (Writing, Zion) Eric James Stone the type of fuel (chemical, nuclear, antimatter, J. Scott Savage The Art of School Visits etc) affect the design? (Worldbuilding, Birch) If you ever plan to write books for children or J. David Baxter, Kevin Evans, Darci Stone, young adults, you need to learn the ancient art Howard Tayler (m)

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As always, we would like to especially thank all those who have helped to make this symposium possible: Jessica Douglas Dragon’s Keep David Farland and Writers of the Future/Illustrators of the Future Discovery Space Center Jeremiah Clark and the rest of the Marriott Hotel staff The spouses, children, roommates, etc., of the symposium committee Our guests, panelists, and volunteers And especially all of you who come! See you next year! ltue.net 1:00–1:45 PM (S) Daxon Levine, Jess Lindsay, Nick Scholz, Bren- panel will explore the paths that distinguished Analyzing Movie Endings: Story Edits with nan Smith, Daniel Swenson (m) authors take to successfully getting published. (Professional Development, Amphitheater) a Focus on Hindsight Science in Comics: Superman to Feynman Susan Chang, James Minz (m), Jo Walton Daniel Friend does a keen (and nonsnarky) Do superhero comics use real science? Of review, commentary and open discussion course, but where? Join C. A. Preece, the cre- Aliens vs. Monsters: Visually Distin- on how certain movies could have ended (or guishing between the Unnatural and the ator of CheMystery: a chemistry graphic novel, should have ended) instead of the way they did. as he discusses the science behind superheroes Unearthly This session will help you “start with the end in (Superman, Firestorm, Ant-Man, and more!), There’s a lot to be afraid of out there, but how mind” and help you realize how essential great where science comics come from (Feynman, do you tell if the creature came from the stars movie endings are. (Theatre/Media Arts, Oak) Howtoons, and more!), and the process of above or beneath your bed? (Art, Bryce) Daniel Craig Friend making a superhero science comic. (Books, Dennis Dorrity( m), Devon Dorrity, Cliff Crafting Good Subplots Amphitheater) Green, Brian C. Hailes C. A. Preece A discussion about using subplots to add Building Seaworthy Ships nuance to your story without derailing your Staging and Producing a Musical From wood to metal, for thousands of years main plot entirely. (Writing, Zion) Actress and director Laura Bedore Lerwill we have been building ships to travel the sea. Renee Collins (m), David Farland, Charlie N. touches on all the key elements from audi- What goes into building a ship to make it Holmberg, Kathryn Purdie, Brandon Sanderson tioning, costuming, rehearsing, directing and seaworthy? How does the choice of materi- Kaffeeklatsch producing a musical or stage play. (Theatre/ als affect how the ship can be built? (World- Media Arts, Cedar) building, Elm) Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Laura Bedore Lerwill Gordon Frye, V. J. O. Gardner, Jennifer Moore Susan Chang (m), Kal Spriggs, Ariadne Kane The Sincerest Form of Flattery: How to Living Deaf Imitate and Incorporate the Styles of Creating and Placing Multimedia TV Ads A presentation about people living with CAPD, Fellow Artists and Radio Spots otherwise known as brain deafness. Learn how They say good artists borrow, great artists Richard Franklin leads you through the pro- to write characters with disabilities that speak steal. How do you steal in appropriate ways, cess of creating multimedia ads and gives to readers. (Worldbuilding, Birch) without plagiarizing or infringing on copy- insight on how to place the ads. (Theatre/ Shannon Babb right? (Art, Canyon) Media Arts, Oak) Memorial Service Greg Newbold, Jess Smart Smiley (m) Richard Franklin A tribute as we mourn the losses to our sci- Writing Children Grey and Black Markets ence fiction and fantasy community from the As adults, convincingly writing a child char- Whether it’s tax and regulation evasion for past year, including Jonathan Langford and acter can be tricky. Ways to make sure your legal goods or the trade in forbidden goods, Ursula K. Le Guin. Come share your memo- characters act their age. (Writing, Arches) whenever a society attempts to regulate the ries of absent friends. (Maple) Elizabeth Buck, Dustin Hansen, Sarah Hoyt, sale of various items, markets of questionable Dave Doering (m) Callie Stoker( m) legality inevitably arise. How do these mar- kets thrive yet remain hidden? What effects NPCs with Soul: Characters for Game 2:00–2:45 PM (S) Designers does law enforcement have on these markets? (Worldbuilding, Maple) How to create NPCs that both achieve the A Road Map to Getting Published goal of the game, and are more interesting Every writer has their own journey, but we can Sofiya Pasternack, Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao, than a signpost. (Gaming, Elm) all learn from the path forged by others. This Eric G. Swedin (m)

42 Kaffeeklatsch 3:00–3:45 PM (S) books. Some write full on poetry. How is it Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Anthropomorphic Art: Mixing Species and different in speculative and fantasy poetry? (Books, Bryce) Jessica Douglas Logical Anatomy Scott Forman, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Scott E. Tar- Making the Most of NaNoWriMo Creating intelligent-looking, humanlike crea- tures takes a little bit of anatomical know- bet (m), Jo Walton November means NaNoWriMo, or at least it how. Learn some basics so your humanoids does until you hit a writers block. How can Prologues and Epilogues are more realistic. (Art, Maple) you stay focused and make the most of one Find out what sets prologues and epilogues month of writing? (Writing, Arches) Graham Bradley, Devon Dorrity, Cliff Green apart from ordinary chapters, and learn when (m), Brian C. Hailes, Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao and how to use them to enhance your story. Spencer Ellsworth, Wendy Nikel, Callie Stoker (Writing, Canyon) (m), Bryan Young From Peasant to Noble: Social Mobility in Feudal Societies Myke Cole, Jason King (m), Lisa Mangum, Open World vs. Closed World In a feudal society, it can be difficult to move Todd McCaffrey, Brandon Sanderson How to balance giving your player the free- from one class to another, particularly if the dom to move around while still moving the “The Female Body as Text: Symptoms and society is heavily caste-based. How did people story along. (Gaming, Birch) Subversions of Systematized Dystopic move from class to class, and how might an Oppression in Alan Moore’s ” Christopher Baxter (m), Clark Chamberlain, V for Vendetta individual find prosperity in the class they are (Academics, Amphitheater) Mari Murdock, Nick Scholz, Brennan Smith born to? (Worldbuilding, Cedar) Mari Murdock “Princess Leia vs. the Holodeck: Understand- Gordon Frye, Daniel Jeffery, Scott R. Parkin ing the Reality of Science Fiction Displays” (m), Eric G. Swedin, David J. West Why Dungeon Crawlers Works, and Live Podcast Recording (Academics, Cedar) Kaffeeklatsch host and published author Dr. Daniel Smalley, N. Smalley Dungeon Crawlers Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) Daniel Swenson overviews why they’ve been What’s It Like: Writing in Somebody Else’s Charlie N. Holmberg successful and then follows up with a live record- Milieu Norse Mythology ing of an episode. (Theatre/Media Arts, Birch) This is not a “how to write in somebody just The pantheon and myths of Norse mythology. Daniel Swenson else’s milieu”, this is “what is it like?” Did you (Worldbuilding, Arches) still like the milieu afterwards? We want stories 4:00–4:45 PM (S) from those invited to write. (Books, Canyon) Stephen Gashler, Daxon Levine, John K. Lun- A Dragon by Any Other Name: Comparing dwall( m), Sofiya Pasternack Karen Evans, Todd McCaffrey, Brandon Dragon Art from Different Series and Styles Sanderson, Sarah E. Seeley, Brad R. Torgersen (m) Pass-Along Comic We all love dragons, but we all love them for different reasons, and our art reflects that. Writing Fast or Writing Slow? Different Join comics creator Jess Smart Smiley for an Comparing and contrasting the different Paths to Success in Publishing hour of making comics! We’ll be filling in blanks to complete comics, then starting our ideas about these mythical creatures can help Brandon Sanderson publishes multiple books own pass-along comics that we make together us learn a lot about how to take an idea and every year (some of them are really big, too!). as a group. Bring something and someone to make it our own. (Art, Canyon) Patrick Rothfuss cranks one out every ten draw with. (Art, Oak) V. J. O. Gardner, Cliff Green, Charlie Pulsipher years or so. They’re both doing okay. How can (m), Kaitlund Zupanic you make it as a writer at any speed? (Profes- Jess Smart Smiley sional Development, Zion) Poetry in SF/F A Serious Look at Comedy Myke Cole, David Farland, L. E. Modesitt Jr., SF/f has more than just prose. Some authors Humor is often seen as one of the hardest ele- Peter Orullian (m) write snippets of rhyme to include in their ments to integrate in fiction. Why is humor so difficult, and how can you get the laughs you want and need? (Writing, Arches) M. Todd Gallowglas (m), Paul Genesse, C. K. Edwards, Howard Tayler, It’s only one year away! Abnormal Psychology What are some of the various psychological disorders that people suffer from, and how has our understanding of these disorders changed Life, the Universe, over time? A discussion about disorders, how they are treated, and how they affect individu- & Everything 37! als, families, and society. (Worldbuilding, Bryce) Callie Stoker (m), Daxon Levine, Laura Henriksen Bootstrapping 101 for Game Designers An overview of the different funding­ models, Come join in the fun! Anyone can be part of the committee. tips for finding and collaborating with partners, Watch our Facebook page for details about how you can help. dealing with limitations, creative marketing 43 ideas, and other best practices for creating an help build more realistic characters with their 6:00–6:45 PM (S) independent game studio (and a great game) own pasts. (Books, Cedar) Communications throughout History from the ground up! (Gaming, Oak) Nikhil Pillarisetti Rao In this day of (mostly) reliable cell phone Nick Scholz 5:00–5:45 PM (S) and Internet service, it’s easy to forget that we haven’t always had these communication Breaking through Blockages Creating Professional Quality Photographs options. What techniques did we use to com- Figure out why you’re not writing and taking Expert photographer steps to start identifying and overcoming the Bring your own camera. municate throughout history? How did these Kjirstin Youngberg leads you through the communication techniques affect the societ- challenges that are holding you back. (Writ- ins and outs great photography. This is part ing, Maple) ies that discovered and used them? (World- presentation and part workshop. Kjirstin also building, Arches) McKelle George( m), Peter Orullian, Kathryn overviews some of the pros and cons about m Purdie, Keary Taylor, Brad R. Torgersen trying to make money today’s photographic Myke Cole, Kevin Evans, Gordon Frye ( ), Megan Hutchins, Daniel Jeffery Ciphers and Code Crackers industry. (Theatre/Media Arts, Cedar) Finding and Working with a Freelance Discuss the history of making and breaking Kjirstin Youngberg Editor codes in military and private use. (World- Kaffeeklatsch building, Birch) With agents and publishing house editors Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) become busier each year and the self-publish- Scott Forman, Daniel Jeffery, Frank Morin( m), Brandon Sanderson ing market exploding, working with a freelance Eric G. Swedin Of Men and Demigods: The Art of Comic editor has become common for both indie and Crowdsourced Magic System Design Books traditionally published authors. What you need to know before you hire an editor, from Come build a magic system! Erekson Holt Comics and comic books have had a huge what questions to ask to really test their exper- will take your suggestions and refine them impact on our culture. Learn what makes tise to what a reasonable pay rate is. We’ll also into viable magic systems, while explaining them stand out, and what’s captivated us for go over the different types of edits and cover the choices and the ramifications of those so long. (Art, Arches) magic systems on your world. (Worldbuild- tips and tricks to get the most out of your ing, Amphitheater) Graham Bradley, Dennis Dorrity, Brian C. working relationship. (Writing, Cedar) Hailes (m), Mari Murdock Erekson Holt Chersti Nieveen Real-World Magic Systems Kaffeeklatsch Grow Confidence and Courage through Stop writing “Magic: the Gathering” into all Self-Expression Sign up required ahead of time. (Boardroom) of your novels! Learn what real-world magi- Learning to be confident in your art is one of Jo Walton cians have done and thought in various cul- the most important steps in becoming a suc- tures, and how that can be applied to your Making Money on the Side cessful professional. Learn how to put your writing. (Worldbuilding, Birch) How to generate additional streams of rev- faith in your creations, and to let your art enue from your creative work (podcasts, D. J. Butler speak for itself. (Art, Birch) lectures, freelance work, etc.) (Professional What Don’t We Know about the Books Dennis Dorrity (m), Jonna Hayden, Rowan Development, Elm) Coming Out? North, Kaitlund Zupanic Myke Cole, Jessica Douglas, Jonna Hayden (m), What are some of the newest trends in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies Preview Brian McClellan, Jemma M. Young industry? How quickly do they change, and Come see the cover reveal and initial author how do agents, publishers and authors antici- Screenwriting 102 announcements for the first LTUE benefit pate them? (Books, Elm) This screenwriting presentation is for Authors, anthology, Trace the Stars. The themes for sev- Indie Filmmakers, and Other Dreamers. Alan Bahr, Renee Collins, McKelle George( m) eral future anthologies will be announced. A Come learn how to “scriptize” your story. Writing Battle Scenes Q&A session follows the announcements, with informal refreshments served. (Boardroom) (Theatre/Media Arts, Zion) Battles by nature are complex and chaotic, yet Tom Durham the outcomes can be important for both the Joe Monson The Hidden Scars Remain: Childhood characters that participate in them and for When Universes Collide: Disney vs. Legacy the story itself. How do you keep from getting Emotional Neglect/Abuse in Adulthood We don’t have much to go on yet, but how do lost in the chaos? How do you find a balance Children from emotionally neglectful and you think the two are going to compare based between focusing on the roles of characters abusive homes often sought and found refuge on the old canon versus newer? Which will involved and describing the overall events of in the welcoming and inclusive community of fans hold tightest to? Is Legacy influencing a battle? (Writing, Amphitheater) SF/F. Although many of us have gone on to Disney? (Books, Elm) Larry Correia, Gordon Frye, L. E. Modesitt Jr., have successful adulthoods and even formed Spencer Ellsworth, L. Palmer (m), Robert Kal Spriggs (m), Brad R. Torgersen loving families, we may struggle with feelings Starling of low self-worth, difficulty with emotional 5:00–6:45 PM (S) regulation, quixotic causes, or self-defeating 7:00 PM (S) Art Auction (2 hours) behaviors. I hope to both reach out to what is Gala Banquet (2 hours) (Canyon) unfortunately likely to be a sizeable popula- Please join us to top off a great year! Come hear tion of attendees, and believe this could also M. Todd Gallowglas, auctioneer bestselling author and toastmaster Charlie N. Holmberg as part of the festivities. (Zion)

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