Confirmed Particpants
Guest of Honor—Walter Jon Williams
Artist Guest—Bob Eggleton
Fan Guest—Bobbi Armbruster
Toastmaster—Kevin J. Anderson
Events and Special Program Items start times
New! Preliminary Program Schedule & Schedule Grid!
Children's Programming:
Welcome to the summer introductory session of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! This program will give your child an acquaintance with the history and practice of modern day magic. After being sorted into temporary houses by the sorting hat (late students who miss the sorting hat are also welcome), children will be given an opportunity to create for themselves some of the basic tools of wizardry, listen to tales of fantasy from our history department, and even learn some basic wizardly practices such as transfiguration. (Please remember, after school is over children are cautioned not to practice magic out in the muggle world.)
Just look on your programming schedule for those classes labeled as Hogwarts and come and join the fun.
(Note: Parents of younger children are cautioned that Hogwarts is not a daycare facility and not all programming items may fill out an entire hour's programming slot.)
Westercon 2006 Business Meeting:
Sunday, 12 noon, Salon A Westercon Business Meeting (2 hours)
Monday, 12 noon, Salon A Westercon Business Meeting, part 2
Writer's Workshop:
Turning Those Crazy Ideas into Salable Even If Not Sold Stories
— What To Do After Having An Idea
Bring pen and notebook plus a list of your own greatest story ideas. Whether you've written them or not, bring us only the idea. Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Prof. Jean Lorrah will show you how to select the best of your own ideas and generate various stories or novels from it. Then you will learn how to pick the most commercial one from those possible stories. Everyone must be committed to staying through both hours of this workshop. No late admittance. No guarantee of a sale.
'Westercon' is a registered service mark of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Inc.
'Conzilla' is brought to you by San Diego Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California Non-Profit public benefit organization.