A post by Cheryl Morgan on dragging Worldcons into the new century not only got me thinking, but others as well. Stephanie Clarkson started a Ning to address the issue.
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I am really getting excited--we have participants from various points around the world. What a great way to discover new authors in other countries!

I hope anyone with a few free hours will check in at Flycon next weekend:

The preliminary schedule is here, the panels will take place in newsgroups, author chats in IRC.

Flycon Community here

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This will be somewhat incoherent--am still a tad tired. Last week was not good, but ended really well, with a school visit to Chadwick Academy in Rancho Palos Verdes.. The school is just as beautiful as it looks--it was first established as a posh boarding school many years ago. I went up there once as a fifth grader, when a friend and I (going ( Read more... )

Flycon's initial call for panel volunteers--a work in progress. Anyone can join, you don't have to be a LiveJournaler.

Small press pimpage: The Dragonslayer's Sword by Resa Nelson--despite the somewhat generic title, this dark fantasy was utterly unexpected.

Here's the opening:

When Astrid was eight years old, she was given to a child seller ( Read more... )

The idea behind flycon2009 is to try to get people on different continents involved in discussion, so it's not the same old groups at whatever convention. So . . . does that mean trotting out the old panel ideas, or trying to invent new ones, or trying to find twists on old ones ( Read more... )

We've been having weekly meetings, mostly about discussion ideas and getting a template for organization. We will kick off midnight Friday 13th March, with a panel run by an Australian Horror group ( Read more... )

so eneit and gillpolack and I met by chat today (today being Sunday afternoon here in CA, and Monday morning in Australia, which is such a cool sfnal concept, at least to me) and set up our online worldcon.

We borrowed the Bittercon community for our preliminary spadework, but we adopted flycon2009 as our name. We have the butterfly in mind as our icon--a butterfly ( Read more... )

So yesterday I had a chat meeting with Sharyn Lilley of Eneit Press and Tech Wizard Nyssa, and we officially turned from people with an idea into a committee.

The online con is slated for [edited] 13 March 2009. Read on if you've an interest.
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From the response, it looks like there are enough people to make a fun weekend full of talk about all kinds of things. I've got so many good suggestions for panel topics that there's no way for one person to get that going--and it's no fun anyway if everything is confined to one blog. Here's my suggestion.

First, everyone "friend" bittercon, so that ( Read more... )

I've been talking to a couple of people (including individuals not on this continent) about the possibility of organizing an on-line con. What with the hike in gas prices, and how that is going to effect everything else, some of us who have trouble traveling now are not going to get out of town at all for the forseeable ( Read more... )