May 22-24, 2015 • Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Contents Chairs' Welcome to BayCon 2015 .................................................3 BayCon 2015 Variety Show ......................................................... 22 Seanan McGuire • Writer Guest of Honor ...................................5 BayCon DIY Room ...................................................................... 22 Stephanie Pui-Mun Law • Artist Guest of Honor .......................6 Birds of a Feather .......................................................................... 23 Caradwen Braskat-Arellanes • Fan Guest of Honor ...................8 Fan Tables ...................................................................................... 23 Amber Benson • Toastmaster ........................................................9 Writers Workshop ........................................................................ 23 The Winner Twins • YA Special Guests ..................................... 11 Gofers • Convention Volunteers ................................................. 24 BayCon 2015 Charity ................................................................... 15 Art Show ........................................................................................ 25 BayCon Staff .................................................................................. 16 BayCon Marketplace • Dealers Room ....................................... 26 Hotel Information ........................................................................ 17 Charity Events ............................................................................... 27 Info Desk ....................................................................................... 17 Fanzine Lounge ............................................................................. 27 Con Suite ....................................................................................... 17 Music Programming .................................................................... 28 Party Rules ..................................................................................... 18 Gaming .......................................................................................... 30 Convention Operations ............................................................... 19 Artemis .......................................................................................... 31 F.L.A.R.E. ....................................................................................... 20 Program Schedule ........................................................................ 32 BayCon Registration .................................................................... 21 Program Participants ................................................................... 52 Teen Lounge .................................................................................. 22 In Memoriam ................................................................................ 80 Credits: This Program Book is published by BayCon 2015 and is copyright © 2015 Artistic Solutions, Inc. “BayCon” is a service mark of Artistic Solutions, Inc. Many thanks to all of the program participants who graciously provided biographies and photographs for inclusion in this Program Book. No artwork or photos may be reproduced without the permission from BayCon, Artistic Solutions, Inc. and/or their respective owners. BayCon logo design by Marilyn Heublein. Program Book Layout: Chris Castro. Copy Editor: Lynn Gold. Unless otherwise credited, all artwork courtesy of Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. "Wonderninja" artwork couresy Darné Lang. Front Cover & Back Cover Art : “Moonbathing" & "Sun Worship" by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. Welcome to BayCon 2015 Welcome to BayCon 2015! 2009. Her art has been seen throughout fandom, from RPG books to tarot decks for gaming and readings. We Greetings to all our Women of Wonder and those who were also fortunate to get Brianna and Brittany Winner, love and appreciate them! This year we chose to celebrate better known as The Winner Twins, for our Young all the wonderful women out there, especially those who Adult Guests of Honor. They are amazing YA writers have contributed to the genres and areas of fandom that who started their careers at 12 years of age and have we love so much. We think it’s important to acknowledge written 4 books. We then turned our attention to who the contributions that women have made in science our Toastmaster for these great guests could be. We fiction, fantasy, and other literary genres as well as were lucky enough to have Amber Benson accept our science and media. Please invitation. She joins us join us in this endeavour A New Harry Pooer Con is coming to Vegas! to share her writing over the weekend as we and films as well as her celebrate all the amazing information about the women in our lives, WhedonVerse. Finally, factual or fictional. Join Us For... we were ready to find We’ve got a great our Fan Guest of Honor convention lined up and realized that for all Amazing Programming for all of you, between her 32 years of work with our amazing Guests of BayCon, we had never With 6 tracks, there wii be something for everyone! Honor (including our had Caradwen "Sabre" fabulous Toastmaster), Braskat-Arellanes as a Fan - Academic Track - Slash & Queer Lit Track our wonderful panels, Guest of Honor. It made our entertaining Variety sense to have two Women - Fandom Track - YA Literature Track Show, and all the other of Wonder who have been great events and guests part of BayCon’s past to - Creativity Track - Writing Track we’ve packed into this celebrate its 33rd year. weekend. We have packed We have a packed the three days with as Dealers Room, a terrific much fun, frivolity, and Art Show, and have you Unforgeoable Events information as we could. seen the Guests list? There Our wonderful staff has Celebrate the best fandom in style! will be LEGO discussions, been working very hard to geeky panels, LGBT talks, make sure that this year’s - Welcome Feast - Fashion Show concerts, and Wonder convention has as much to Woman discussions as - Magical Bai - Vid Show offer as possible. well as a bit of adult fun! - Game Night - And More! We are extremely You can also come see excited to have all our all the great costumes - Karaoke wonderful Guests of and acts in our Variety Honor joining us. When Show, including your Chairs starting the show with a we first started thinking about this convention and lip synch act that we hope everyone will have fun with. our theme, we thought it was very important to get Hit the panels and the readings as well as our Gaming Guests of Honor that highlight things we feel strongly Room, Teen Lounge and DIY Room and you will find about in fandom and we think we have done that. We something for everyone! July 7 - 10, 2016 have Seanan McGuire who grew up with BayCon as We hope you have a terrific time at BayCon 2015! Las Vegas her home convention. She has been a staffer, Chair, a musician, and Toastmaster. Now we get to honor her Kathleen McDowell and Learn more at leviosa.org as our Writer Guest of Honor. Then we have Stephanie SallyRose Robinson Law whom SallyRose first saw at WonderCon back in Co-Chairs, BayCon 2015 BayCon 2015 • Women of Wonder 3 Let your Geek Flag fly at Seanan McGuire • Writer Guest of Honor Seanan McGuire writes things. She has written things If you’ve been wondering why Seanan’s name is so for as long as she can remember, which is why it is familiar, it’s because she used to work here. Seanan is the something of a miracle that she was not beaten to death first person ever to be BayCon Chair and BayCon Author with a typewriter when she was still a very small child. Guest of Honor. This is an accomplishment she used to According to her mother, she has been claiming to be the claim she would achieve back when she was a teenager vanguard of an invading race of alien plant people since working as Head of Music Programming. This is more the age of three. At this time, we have no good reason to proof that she is secretly an alien plant person. Be kind doubt her when she says that the Mothership is en route to her, as the invasion is almost definitely coming. even now. When not writing Seanan’s or recording music, first book was Seanan watches a published in late remarkable amount 2009. Since then, of television, travels she has released to Disney Parks a total of twenty- around the world, three books and enjoys the and contributed company of her two to a literally abnormally large uncounted blue cats (both are number of Maine Coons, which anthologies and makes them fuzzy essay collections, horror movies in with more to their own right). come. She Seanan lives here in releases an average Northern California, of four books a sharing her home year. Her first with a large ongoing comic assortment of creepy series, The Best dolls, comic books, Thing, is currently and paperbacks releasing weekly from Thrillbent Comics. Sometimes dating all the way back to the early 1950s. She is widely she starts new series by accident. Surprising no one, she rumored not to sleep, something which is possibly doesn’t sleep very much. Oh, and sometimes she releases explained by the profoundly disturbing contents of her albums of original filk music, too, just to make sure that house. Did we mention that she also collects machetes she doesn’t have any free time ever. and Disney pins? Seanan would like a Diet Dr Pepper, a cookie, and a nap, preferably in that order. But really, she’s not that picky. If you see her in the halls, feel free to
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