I took BART up to The City today to attend a World Fantasy Convention 2009 meeting. Because I got off to a late start, I had to the choice of getting to the razor-repair place before the meeting or having breakfast; I choose the latter for health reasons. Not much I can say about the meeting other than "it was a con committee meeting and we ( Read more... )

Today was a 2009 World Fantasy Convention meeting up in Oakland at the home of Sarah Goodman. Sarah has a wireless internet connection, so I was able to stay online during the meeting and even made a couple of simple corrections to the WFC2009 web site on the spot. For instance, we set the deadline for the current $125 memberships to be the end ( Read more... )

If you are kproche or anyone else who has worked on the 2009 World Fantasy Con web site, you're ineligible for this question because you already know the answer.

If you wanted to find you whether you were a member of the 2009 WFC and you went to the convention's web site, where do you think you would find this information, if anywhere? If you can't ( Read more... )

We officially opened up hotel booking for the 2009 World Fantasy Convention late yesterday. The pages were there for a few days, but we were doing some cleanup and testing, with staff members making reservations and several of us fiddling around with the Hotel & Travel pages on the WFC web site. Apparently, we didn't test quite enough, because ( Read more... )

As posted in various other places, Further Confusion has put their "Welcome to the Fairmont" video online. FurCon is moving from the the Doubletree Hotel San Jose -- which for many years was Fan Central Station for SF genre conventions in the Bay Area -- to the Fairmont Hotel downtown San Jose. This was ConJose's headquarters hotel (as mentioned ( Read more... )

I'm nervous when we put out a major announcement coupled with a new web site launch. Last night, the WFC date change and roll out of the new 2009 World Fantasy Con website was the second time in the past year we've done that. (The first was the launch of the Westercon San Jose 2011 bid website.) Aside from the fact that I double-typoed the dates ( Read more... )

SFSFC announced today that the dates of the 2009 World Fantasy Convention in San Jose have changed to October 29-November 1, 2009, rather than the following weekend as originally announced. Details of the announcement are in the press release and on the newly redesigned 2009 World Fantasy Convention website.

I will not be attending this year's World Fantasy Convention in Calgary after all, for reasons detailed here. Yes, I could go on my own, but without Cheryl, my heart really isn't in it. (And that's besides the financial aspects; while it's a shame to lose the sunk cost of the membership and airline ticket, there's still the other costs I'll avoid ( Read more... )

SFSFC will host the 2009 World Fantasy Convention at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose, California.

As long as the wi-fi signal holds out, Cheryl is blogging the World Fantasy Awards at SF Awards Watch, starting here.

Update, 13:05: Final results posted on SF Awards Watch and the WFC Awards Page.