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Writer's Workshop 1
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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Speakers 
Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, published on October 29, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began...
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Author, Dawnrigger Publishing
I write books, tell tales, and generally spin stories in as many ways as I can. I also like to sing but not on stage, dance but rarely when anyone is watching, and take many pictures of my cat.
Guild Founder and Head Editor, York Editing Guild
Gracie York is the guild founder and head editor of the York Editing Guild, offering editorial services to self-published authors. She's also edited everything from medical textbooks to sci-fi/fantasy books for traditional publishers.Gracie accidentally writes things in her spare...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Butterfield
9:00am CST
Writer's Workshop 2
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Moderators 
Writer
I'm about to graduate from Seton Hill University with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. It's a great program that specializes in genre fiction.
I write SF, Fantasy, and mystery. I've got two novels I'm shopping around (one time travel, one steampunk) and I'm submitting short stories...
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Special Gusets; Moderator
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper...
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Rob is a reformed medieval academic who draws upon those skills and resources for his stories and settings. He has also been an IT professional, a cook, and a soda jerk. As a child, his parents discovered about the only way to keep him quiet was to give him a book. Without books...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Camden
11:00am CST
Writing & Editing Techniques For The Neurodivergent and Disabled
Saturday November 9, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Moderators 
Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after. Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802. France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers...
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Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
York
12:00pm CST
The Trouble With Humor: The Challenges & Quirks of Writing With Humor
Saturday November 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Moderators
Special Gusets; Moderator
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper...
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President, Noumena Corp
I'm a techie nerd. Unix/Linux user since the early '80s and programmer since the early '70s. I also write filks, humorous fiction (Well, I think it's humorous), and play guitar. My renewed interest in writing fiction led me to studying how to write well which led to Editomat (www.editomat.com...
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I'm the author of nearly 200 books on various topics, prime among them the subject of women in baseball. For my research and writing on the history of women in baseball I was recently honored wit the SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. I've also written mystery...
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Author, Lost Bard Enterprises
I am the award-winning author of Death and the Taxman about the Grim Reaper trapped in an IRS agent's dying body. He must regain his powers before he dies and faces judgment for his original sin. (Join me Sat at 10:00 for a reading of the first chapters!).My short stories have appeared...
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Dex Greenbright is a writer of monsters both kind and cruel, an award-winning artist, and the editor, illustrator, and a contributing author for Tales of the Automazombs, a book series with steampunk cyborg zombies. He is a creative whirlwind, a magical master of dungeons, and the...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Camden
1:00pm CST
Writing Characters with Disabilities
Saturday November 9, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Moderators
Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after. Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802. France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers...
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Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has...
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Hi!I'm Tamara (rhymes with camera).I'm just a reader who loves to gab about scifi/fantasy stuff.
I obtained a PhD in biochemistry but, lacking the patience for scientific research, switched into science/medical writing. Now retired, I have recently completed a first novel, a sword and sorcery work titled The Whip of Abadur, and am currently seeking a publisher. I am interested...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
York
2:00pm CST
Reading & Writing Through the Female Gaze
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Moderators
Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, published on October 29, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began...
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Author, Dawnrigger Publishing
I write books, tell tales, and generally spin stories in as many ways as I can. I also like to sing but not on stage, dance but rarely when anyone is watching, and take many pictures of my cat.
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
York
2:00pm CST
Screenwriting
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Moderators 
(Foreign) Correspondent, File770.com
Chris M. Barkley is a fan activist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been active in sf fandom for over 47 years and has attended over 200 conventions, including 31 World Science Fiction Conventions.He has also been a Convention Chair (Cinclave in 1986) a radio talk show host and producer...
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Author, Science Fiction You Can Enjoy
My aim is to write science fiction you can enjoy. So far that's manifested as what I call Light Space Opera. Imagine Starship Troopers, hijacked by Monty Python, or space opera as produced by Gilbert and Sullivan, while bankrolled and bullied by Flo Ziegfeld. Additional links:Ray's...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Ogden
2:00pm CST
The Red Line Test
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Moderators BF
Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates
Steven H Silver is a twenty-time Hugo Award nominee and was the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for 8 years. He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB Books. He began publishing short fiction in 2008, his most recently published story is "Initial Engagement...
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Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter...
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Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops...
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I am a SF/fantasy writer with three books currently in print; two novels and one collection of short stories.I
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
3:00pm CST
Dance a Little Side Step
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Speakers
Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter...
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Author, Science Fiction You Can Enjoy
My aim is to write science fiction you can enjoy. So far that's manifested as what I call Light Space Opera. Imagine Starship Troopers, hijacked by Monty Python, or space opera as produced by Gilbert and Sullivan, while bankrolled and bullied by Flo Ziegfeld. Additional links:Ray's...
Read More →
Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after. Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802. France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers...
Read More →
Dex Greenbright is a writer of monsters both kind and cruel, an award-winning artist, and the editor, illustrator, and a contributing author for Tales of the Automazombs, a book series with steampunk cyborg zombies. He is a creative whirlwind, a magical master of dungeons, and the...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Camden
3:00pm CST
Writers & Donuts
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Speakers
Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Butterfield
7:00pm CST
How To Write a Self-Published Comic
Saturday November 9, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Speakers 
Ryan Francis is a multi-talented cartoonist and animator who likes to draw animals with swords.After spending time in college learning to draw for money, Ryan tackles the day to day arrangements of projects, commissions, and ventures where he must draw like a mad lad.
Saturday November 9, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Ogden
8:00pm CST
Self-Publishing: Pros & Cons of
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
Moderators
Ryan Francis is a multi-talented cartoonist and animator who likes to draw animals with swords.After spending time in college learning to draw for money, Ryan tackles the day to day arrangements of projects, commissions, and ventures where he must draw like a mad lad.
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
Camden
8:00pm CST
The Rowling Effect
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
Speakers
Steven H Silver is a twenty-time Hugo Award nominee and was the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for 8 years. He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB Books. He began publishing short fiction in 2008, his most recently published story is "Initial Engagement...
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Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has...
Read More →
Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops...
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Fandom additict. Fanfiction connoisseur. Professional napper.
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
York
9:00pm CST
Dangerous Dance
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
Moderators BF
Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates
Chris Gerrib admits to being a bit obsessed with Mars, but in a healthy way – all three books of his Pirate Series are set on Mars. Chris lives in the Chicago suburbs and still has a day job in IT. He holds degrees in history and business from the University of Illinois and Southern...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
Camden
