WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION '82 October 29-31, 1982 — Park Plaza Hotel, New Haven, CT PROGRESS REPORT TWO WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION '82 October 29 - 31, 1982 Park Plaza Hotel — New Haven, Connecticut Guests Peter Straub Joseph Payne Brennan Donald Maitz Toastmaster Charles L. Grant Dedicated to Mark Twain and H. Warner Munn. Convention Committee: P.O. Box 8262, East Hartford, CT 06108 Norman L. Hood, Chairman; Harold Kinney, Chairman; Dick Brisson, Art Show; Ken Avery, Dealers’ Room; Kennedy Poyscr, Publications; Jim French, Program Director; Peter D. Pautz, Awards Liaison. Artwork copyright 1982 by Don Maitz. REGISTRATION AND PROGRAMMING REGISTRATION PROGRAMMING Attending memberships are §25 until Several very special items are being September 1, 1982, and §35 afterwards. planned for programming, but it is still Supporting memberships are §10 at any too early to give specifics. The final time. We have a limit of 750 attending Progress Report will contain more members, so join early. The member­ details without, however, spoiling a few ship form is on page 14 of this Progress surprises. In general, my guidelines for Report. the program are that it be informative,^ Members will receive a confirmation different, and above all, entertaining. letter and a membership number. Our I intend to have two tracks running plan is to number the program books simultaneously. One track, devoted and badges, and to give each convention­ primarily to the actual literature of goer the program book and badge that fantasy and to the aesthetic side of corresponds to his/her membership num­ fantasy art, will include sessions on ber. In order to maintain fairness, the Mark Twain and H. Warner Munn (the numbers are assigned strictly in the people to whom the convention is order received, the lowest numbers dedicated) as well as interview/ going to the first to join. Program books dialogues with the Guests of Honor. and membership badges will be given out In selecting panels, my goal is to high­ at the preregistration booth at the con­ light the interrelation of various strains vention. Supporting members will have and genres of fantasy, although, con­ their material mailed to them, including sidering the contributions of our the 80-page program book with a full­ Writer Guests of Honor to horror fan­ color Don Maitz cover. tasy, there will be some emphasis on Our Progress Reports will probably this area. answer most of your questions about The other track I am labelling the convention, but feel free to write or “The Business and Technical Side of call if there is something we haven’t Fantasy,” a catch-phrase designed to covered. I can generally be reached for point out the extent of its difference questions about memberships at (203) from the first track. (Both are equally 289-1208 afternoons, or (203) 742-5417 important, but different.) It will mornings and evenings. feature elements on publishing and editing, agent/client relationships, care Harold E. Kinney — Co-Chairman and preservation of artwork and books, demonstrations of art techniques, and motion pictures. Concerning “special events,” I offer this hint — a film not yet released (though it will be by the time of the convention) closely connected with a well-known writer who usually attends World Fantasy Conventions — we hope to show this film in conjunction with a panel. Jim French — Program Director 4 155 Temple Street, New Haven, THE PARK PLAZA HOTEL Connecticut 06510 (203) 772-1700 The Park Plaza Hotel is in the Chapel ventinn hotel has sold out for the past Square Mall in downtown New Haven. three World Fantasy Conventions. The convention has blocked most of Reservation cards are enclosed in the 300 guest rooms for WFC members, Progress Reports and with membership but you should reserve early. The con­ confirmation letters. HOW TO GET THERE FROM HARTFORD & POINTS NORTH. Take 1-91 Driving information south to Exit 3 (Trumbull Street). Proceed down ramp and a map (pilfered and straight on to 3rd traffic light. Take a left at light onto from the hotel bro­ Temple Street, proceed straight passing 3 traffic lights. chure) are in the next The Park Plaza entrance will be on your left. column. Travel by train is easy, as the main New England commuter line runs right through New Haven. Call Am­ trak at 1-800-523-5720 for schedules. There are 20-30 flights a day to New Haven, most by New- air, with direct flights from New York City (both LaGuardia and Newark), Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. Newair’s toll-free number is 1-800-243-6570. THE SCENIC TOUR Museums, historic sites, and about 50 restaurants are within a short walk or ride from the Park Plaza. FROM NEW YORK & POINTS SOUTH. Take I-95 north The libraries and col­ to Exit 47 (Downtown) onto Route 34. Take exit 1 and lections of nearby Yale proceed to first traffic light. Take a right at the light onto University are well Church Street. Take a left at the 3rd traffic light onto worth a visit. Chapel Street. Left at next traffic light onto Temple Phelps Gate marks Street. The Park Plaza Entrance will be on your left. the entry to the Old Campus where Yale FROM BOSTON & POINTS EAST. Take I-95 south to was established in Exit 47 (Downtown) onto Route 34. Take exit 1 and pro­ 1718. Free guided ceed to first traffic light. Take a right at the light onto Church Street. Take a left at the 3rd traffic light onto tours twice daily. Chapel Street. Left at next traffic light onto Temple Continued on p. 6. Street. The Park Plaza Entrance will be on your left. 5 PUBLICATIONS The convention will issue two more Program Book — Deadline Sept. 15 progress reports with details and up­ 8/2 x 11 Pg - 8/2 x 11 $115 dates on hotel reservations, member­ (80 pp.) Full-bleed ship, art show, dealers’ room, and con­ Pg - 7/2 x 10 $100 vention programming. 2/3- 4% x 10 $ 75 The planned schedule is July for /2 — 7/2x5 $ 60 Progress Report 3, and September for /2 - 4% X 8 $ 60 Progress Report 4. Advertising space in 1/3-2/4 x 10 $ 40 PR 4 may be limited. */4 - 4% x 4 $ 35 The convention program book will /4 - 3/2 X 5 $ 35 be an 80-page softcover, with a full­ 1/6 - 2/4 x 5 $ 25 color cover by Guest Artist Don Maitz. It will feature fiction, guest biographies, Ad copy, payment (checks payable articles, artwork, and other delights. to World Fantasy Convention ‘82), Format will be 3-column, and page-size submissions, and requests for informa­ ads may be full-bleed. Halftones should tion should go to: be 85- to 120-line screen. Kennedy Poyser Advertising rates, closing dates, and 42- 77 Crommelin Street deadlines for submission of artwork Flushing, NY 11355 and articles are listed in the table below: (212) 961 - 2895 Progress Report 3 — Deadline June 15 5l/2 x8l/2 Pg-5 x8 $30 In New York City (for deliveries by (16 pp.) >/2 - 5 x 4 $ 20 messenger, etc.), he also may be 'A -2/4x4 $ 10 reached at: Progress Report 4 — Deadline Sept. 15 New York School of Interior Design 5/2 X 8/2 Pg - 5 X 8 $ 30 155 East 56th Street (2nd floor) (8 pp.) /2 - 5 x 4 $ 20 New York, NY 10022 /4 - 2/4 x 4 $ 10 (212) 753 - 5365 NEW HA VEN AND THE PARK PLAZA HOTEL — Continued from page 5 Sterling Memorial Library, repository Jarves collection of Italian Renaissance for more than 4 million volumes, is the works, the Stoddard collection of Greek country’s fourth largest. Seasonal man­ and Roman artifacts, the Garvan collec­ uscript displays. James Gamble Rogers tion of American painting and crafts, architecture. and many modern masters, including van Gogh, Gauguin, Klee, Kandinsky, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript and Mondrian. Library features periodic displays of rare books, prints, letters, and manu­ The Mellon Gallery is considered the scripts. Permanent displays include the finest collection of British art outside Gutenberg Bible and James Audubon’s England. Paintings, rare books, sculp­ original bird prints. An acclaimed ture, and drawings from the 17th, 18th, design by Gordon Bunshaft, it’s sunlit and 1 9th centuries. through 1’4-inch translucent marble The Yale Collection of Musical panels. Instruments, 800 wind, percussion, and Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest string instruments dating from 1550 to university art museum in the western 1850, is housed in a redstone building hemisphere, contains John Trumbull among the elegant mansions on paintings of the Revolutionary era, the Hillhouse Avenue. 6 FUTURE DREAMS PRESS PROUDLY PRESENTS BELLEROPHON'S SISTER THE WEB DANCE Three prints by LELA DOWLING Each print is strictly limited to one edition of 300 copies. Each print is signed, numbered, and inspected by the artist. Print size is 11” x 14” with a 9” x 1 2” black and white image on 80 lb. cover stock. Prints are sold individually for $4.00 each. Add $2.50 for postage and handling. ORDER FROM : FUTURE DREAMS PRESS 1800 EAST BURNSIDE PORTLAND,OREGON 97214 Satisfaction guaranteed with every Future Dreams Press publication. Artwork copyright 1981 by Future READING SHAKESPEARE Dreams Press. 7 YOUR SCIENCE FANTASY BOOKSHOP ... 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