Virginia Smith - Author - Speaker

Cross-posted from “A City of Salt and Fantasy” –  www.WFC2020.org Why are there a hundred people in line to get signatures from that guy? Who is he? Neil Gaiman you say? I haven’t heard anything about him. That was in 2002, when I attended my first World Fantasy Convention (WFC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I had no clue about most of …

Cross-posted from “A City of Salt and Fantasy” – www.WFC2020.org When my first novel, Transformation, was published in August 2000 and I discovered that the sky did not open and reveal a whole new dimension of existence, I asked my agent, “What do I do now?” “First, put up a website,” she said. “Done.” “And you could start going to …

Cross-posted from “A City of Salt and Fantasy” www.WFC2020.org Today we’re talking with author and playwright Ann Chamberlin. Ann is a member of the World Fantasy Convention and is also serving as the Registration Committee Head for WFC 2020! Ann spent big blocks of time as a child in Europe where her father was professor of mathematics. She has traveled …

Cross-posted from “A City of Salt and Fantasy” www.WFC2020.org My first World Fantasy Convention was way back in 1996. I was an aspiring writer with a bunch of short stories and stack of rejection letters under my belt. I wasn’t interested in costumes or games, so the well-known fan cons held little appeal. What I wanted were contacts in the …

Cross-posted from www.WFC2020.org Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Joe Haldeman, a legendary writer who is a mainstay at the World Fantasy Convention. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Joe Haldeman has earned steady awards over his 50-year career: his novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both made clean sweeps …

Cross-posted from www.WFC2020.org Until a couple of years ago I thought of Stephen Gallagher, author Guest of Honor at WFC 2020, primarily as a screenwriter. He’s been instrumental in many creepy-and-fascinating shows, some of which you can read about on his Guest of Honor bio page posted on the WFC 2020 website and in even more detail at www.stephengallagher.com. Being …

Cross-posted from www.wfc2020.org Unlike most of today’s fantasy writers, I didn’t attend any conventions until more than ten years after my first story was published. My first World Fantasy Convention didn’t occur until twenty-five years after I sold that first story… and that was in 1997.  The 1997 WFC was held in London at the International Hotel in the Docklands, …

As many of you know, I wear many hats. I’m one of the co-chairpersons running the 2020 World Fantasy Convention. WFC2020 has recently launched a blog dedicated to this year’s convention, its guests, and members. The blog is called A City of Salt and Fantasy. I plan to cross-post the content here because I think you’ll enjoy hearing from a …