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"Mankind will reach maturity on the day it learns to value diversity—of life and ideas. To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst thing that could happen is for all of us to look and think and act alike." Gene Roddenberry

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Sunday, November 10
 

10:00am CST

Changing Genres
Sunday November 10, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am CST
What makes a person change to - or change from - SF or fantasy to other types of literature?
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Donna J W Munro

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... Read More →
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Barbara Gregorich

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... Read More →
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
Using character development to give them their own unified voice
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Richard Chwedyk

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... Read More →
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Barbara Gregorich

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... Read More →
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
How to write humor. What's funny and what's not?
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avatar for Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys

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 →
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Llewella Forgie

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 →
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David Hankins

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... Read More →
Sunday November 10, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
 
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