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9:00am CST
Writer's Workshop 3
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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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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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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Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Butterfield
9:00am CST
Writer's Workshop 4
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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Speakers 
Tina L. Jens has had 100+ fantasy, mystery, horror, and comedic works published as fiction, poems, non-fiction, a comic book, 1-act plays, and her award-winning novel-in-stories, The Blues Ain't Nothin': Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub. She served as the editor for Twilight Tales...
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Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Camden
10:00am CST
Changing Genres
Sunday November 10, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am CST
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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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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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Sunday November 10, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am CST
Hunt
1:00pm CST
Diversity in Character Development
Sunday November 10, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
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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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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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Sunday November 10, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Camden
2:00pm CST
Tickle Your Funny Bone?
Sunday November 10, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Speakers
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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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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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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Sunday November 10, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
