February 2002 ConJosé Offl ine Number 3 Being an occasional publication for information updates Note from the Chair Tom Whitmore [email protected] We’re starting to get publications out very rapidly as we have lost it; we’ll send it to you again when it’s time to vote. If you want more to tell you! This issue is mainly so that you can get the hotel to nominate on the web, check out our website! information forms to reserve your rooms for the con. We hope you’ll like our hotels—the committee stayed at the Fairmount, our I’m pleased to report that Geri Sullivan has joined us to head a main party hotel, for a meeting a few months ago and we were Hospitality Division. We hope that this will make our convention quite pleased with the rooms and the service. much more fun for all the attendees. On a different note, Ruth Sachter has left as a Vice Chair, for family reasons. Life happens to You should have gotten your Hugo Nominations ballot in all of us, and though I’m sorry to see her go, I understand why and our previous publication—your label had a fi ve-digit personal hope to continue to get the benefi t of her advice. identifi cation number that you can use to nominate (and vote once the nominations are closed) on the Hugos. Don’t worry if you’ve We look forward to seeing all of you in San José in a few short months! Publications Report Missing Members Robert & Brenda Daverin [email protected] William Brown Hayward, CA USA Pam Buck Aliso Viejo, CA USA Every time we write one of these, we feel a sense of recursion. Bates Burnell Davis, CA USA After all, we’re writing about what’s happening in Publications Guest of Timothy Butts, Salem, OR USA inside what’s happening in Publications. Timothy A. Butts, Salem, OR USA We’ve got most of our positions fi lled, but we’re still looking for Fernando Cabaccang, Lyons, IL USA people to take care of one or two more special projects, so if you’re Guest of Fernando Cabaccang, Lyons, IL USA interested in helping, please drop us a line and let us know. Tess Calhoun, CA USA Jerry Crutcher, CA USA Now for our traditional items of info. First up, our ad rates. Jo Davidsmeyer, CA USA The ad rates for PR #4 are (in US dollars): Debbie Erickson, San Jose, CA USA Fan Semi-Pro Pro Jade Falcon, San Jose, CA USA 1/4 page $30 $60 $90 Ed Goldstein, Cupertino, CA USA 1/2 page $50 $100 $150 Judith Herman, Redmond, WA USA Full Page $100 $175 $275 Craig Jackson, Santa Cruz, CA USA Inside Cover $200 $275 $375 Norwin Malmberg, Annapolis, MD USA And our ad rates for the program book have been set. They are Jack McGillis, Bennett, CO USA a little more complex, so please bear with us. Alec Orrock, Irvine, CA USA C. Keith Ray, Foster City, CA USA Full page (8.5 x 11): Mary Sayer, Bellport, NY USA Fan Semi-Pro Pro Vaughan J. Spencer, Ashley, OH USA Interior B&W: $200 $300 $400 Glenn R. Stone, Seattle, WA USA Interior Color: $1,100 $1,600 $2,175 Rick Weiss, CA USA Inside cover: n/a $4,000 $5,000 Half-page (8.5 x 5.5 or 4.25 x 11): Fan Semi-Pro Pro Interior B&W: $150 $ 225 $300 Interior Color: $750 $1,125 $1,500 What’s a Hugo PIN? Quarter Page (4.25 x 5.5): Fan Semi-Pro Pro On the top line of your mailing label there should be a fi ve-digit Interior B&W: $100 $150 $200 number after the word “Hugo PIN.” A Hugo PIN substitutes for Interior Color: $450 $675 $900 your signature on the online version of the Hugo ballot, available on the ConJosé web site. You must include your Hugo PIN with your And now we appeal to you for help. We need artwork. We need electronically-submitted ballot or we will not count it. You don’t need a cover piece for our next PR and we need lots of fi llo art for the your Hugo PIN to vote on a paper ballot. Having a Hugo PIN on your PRs, Offl ines, Program Book, and anything else where a small spot mailing label does not guarantee your eligibility to vote. Some classes crops up that could use a little prettying up. Please help. We can of membership, including any “guest of” membership or membership scan stuff in, or we can take them in email. If you email them in, owned in the name of a club, corporation, or other “non-natural please send them as TIFFs or PNGs, as they have the best image person” may not vote. quality, and we don’t want your artwork to suffer in reproduction. Send ads, questions, and art to [email protected]. If you do not know your Hugo PIN, want to change your Hugo PIN, or have not received a notifi cation postcard or a progress Thanks, and enjoy the rest of our show. report with a Hugo PIN printed on the mailing label, or if you have questions about the Hugo Award voting process, e-mail [email protected] and we will be happy to help you. Programming Update Hospitality at the Worldcon Linda McAllister [email protected] Geri Sullivan [email protected] Programming at ConJosé will celebrate science fi ction, fantasy Most of the hospitality at the Worldcon is the sort that fans bring and the diversity of fandom, as well as the technology that helped with them—running into friends, meeting new ones, and, in particular, build Silicon Valley. We are also planning concerts and fi lk sessions, throwing a plenitude of the best room parties in fandom. costuming discussions and workshops, gaming, and a variety of ConJosé is looking forward to complementing the hospitality media-oriented programs. you bring to the Worldcon with a lively consuite, comfortable We are planning to hold the majority of daytime and early fan lounge, dances to get you hopping (and gliding) on to those evening program items in the McEnery Convention Center. In aforementioned room parties, and other bizarre, sparkly bits to addition to our daytime program tracks, we will have a smaller remind you that, yes, this is the Worldcon, and, yes, all sorts of number of evening and night program items for people who want to strange and wondrous fun is waiting to be created here. take a break from the parties. Nighttime programming—including music and gaming programs—will be held in our hotels. Since hospitality is all about enjoying getting to know each other better, I’ll start by introducing the fen spearheading ConJosé’s We need your help to make all of this happen! If you want to formal hospitality functions. (That wasn’t a shark joke, honest.) help out at ConJosé, drop us a line at [email protected]. Sandra “Shark-on-a-Stick!” Childress is running the consuite, Autograph Sessions with lots of help. (Maybe even some from you?) In addition to Have you published a novel/story collection/graphic novel/ running the Loscon 2000 consuite and helping with our Hugo comic/CD or something similar, that is science fi ction, fantasy or Nominees Party at the Millennium Philcon, Sandra was responsible related? ConJosé will be sponsoring several autograph sessions. for all but four of the sharks spotted at MilPhil. Come ConJosé, To sign up for a time slot, contact us at [email protected]. the sharks are going Hawaiian as the consuite prepares to welcome Be sure to specify whether you’d prefer a morning, afternoon alien tourists to our Earthly shores. or evening session. Alan “Transcontinental” Rosenthal and Janice “Hero Distributor Readings of Ansible” Murray are hosting the fan lounge, again with lots of One of the highlights of WorldCons is the chance to hear authors help. (Yes, it’s a theme. Sign up early; sign up often.) The fan lounge read from works in progress. If you are interested in reading your welcomes fans old and new. It is home to memorable conversations own work-in-progress, please contact [email protected]. in person, and in print via fanzines published in recent weeks, DISCLAIMER: we have a fi nite number of time slots! They will years, decades, and centuries. We haven’t yet tracked down any fi ll up fast, so get in touch with us by June 1! titles on stone tablets, but we can point you to Bill Bowers’ resource Special Interest Groups guide to fanzines on the Web. We will have a small amount of space available for Special What makes for a great dance? The answer is as varied as the Interest Group (SIG) or Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions. If your fans who join the Worldcon, and we’re looking forward to running club or organization wants to present a special recognition, such the gamut from John Hertz’ Regency to BayCon Techno, with as the Prometheus Award, or wants to hold a get-together at the several stops at other danceable spots along the way. If you have convention, get in touch with us at [email protected]. We a lead on the “literally waltzing on air” part of the Brand New will also try to have some (unfortunately limited) space available Tennessee Waltz, we want to hear from you. Likewise if you enjoy through program operations at the convention for impromptu pushing the limits of gravity by more traditional means, keeping discussions.