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Apr. 8th, 2004 03:25 pm
GenreCon 2004
My earlier post did not get the response I had hoped for so excuse the full post:
“The Sarnia Library Presents: An Afternoon of Authors GenreCon 2004”
Sarnia, ON – GenreCon, a free literary convention featuring a dozen notable editors and authors, is returning to Sarnia Library on May 1st.
GenreCon provides fans and local writers with the opportunity to talk with other genre fans and writers. A wide range of panels like how to get published, how genre fiction fits into literature as a whole, whether authors should go for style or just try to tell a good story, and how to create good stories, setting and characters, will be presented, in addition to readings by authors, book signings and sales and short films.
“It’s a friendly, intimate convention,” said Jeffrey Beeler, Reference Librarian. “Our past participants speak highly of their experiences.”
Other activities will include a seminar on book collecting for fun and profit and a book discussion where participants are encouraged to talk about their favourite genre book.
GenreCon starts on Saturday, May 1st at 11 a.m. with a meet and greet reception and runs until library closing at 5:30 p.m. Seating is limited, please contact the Reference Department at (519) 337-3291 to reserve your seat.
The Sarnia Branch of the Lambton County Library is located at 124 Christina Street South, Sarnia, Ontario, one hour northeast of Detroit, Michigan on I-94 and one hour west of London, Ontario on Highway 402.
The following authors will be in attendance at GenreCon 2004:
Lou Allin was born June 5, 1945, in Toronto, Canada, but relocated to Cleveland in 1948 so that her father could work as a booker in the American film industry. After receiving a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature, she became a Professor at Cambrian College in Sudbury in 1977, where she teaches Presentations and Report Writing to Criminal Justice students. The books in the Belle Palmer mystery series by RendezVous Press are: Northern Winters are Murder, Black Flies are Murder, an Arthur Ellis award nominee, and Bush Poodles are Murder.
R. Scott Bakker writes philosophy and fantasy and often has difficulty distinguishing between the two. Every morning he teaches Truth at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, and then he writes falsehoods all afternoon. His first book, an epic fantasy entitled The Darkness That Comes Before, has found its way onto the 'Best of 2003' lists of SF Site, Locus, and Amazon.ca. The sequel, The Warrior Prophet, will be released by Penguin Canada this May.
Rick Blechta is a musician who also makes his living writing crime fiction. It isn’t much of a stretch to understand this when you read his most recent thriller, Shooting Straight in the Dark, since the protagonist is a songwriter/guitarist. He’s also written about violinists, trumpeters and the odd baritone sax player. All his crime novels feature music of some sort or another. He currently resides in Toronto and is married to a musician.
Eric Choi is a science fiction writer and aerospace engineer at MD Robotics in Brampton, where he is currently working on robotic systems for future missions to Mars and other destinations in the Solar system. His latest short story, “A Man’s Place”, will appear the upcoming anthology Space Inc. from DAW.
Dennis Collins on himself: “Growing up as a 50's teenager in Detroit, my interests leaned toward anything with wheels and loud exhaust pipes. I naturally migrated toward the automobile industry where I experienced a fulfilling career in engineering. It has always been my dream to be an author and with my retirement came the opportunity to write.” His first mystery novel The Unreal McCoy is available through Independence Books. The second installment in that series, Turn Left at September, is complete and ready to publish although he is currently seeking representation for this work. Book number three, For Thine is the Power, has recently been finished and is off to the editor for a little housekeeping.
Peter Halasz is an expert in Canadian science fiction and fantasy who has written extensively on the subject. Peter will be a guest of honour at A Commonwealth of Science Fiction in Liverpool, England. He is an Aurora Award winner and is one of the administrators of the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
Marcy Italiano lives in Waterloo, Ontario. Her first novel, Pain Machine was released in the summer of 2003. While she still writes short fiction, her second novel is on its way. For more information about Marcy and her writing, go to www.marcyitaliano.com.
Sandra Kasturi is the editor of the speculative poetry anthology, The Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night, from The Bakka Collection/Red Deer Press. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and she has a cultural essay, “Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood” appearing in the new anthology, Girls Who Bite Back, from Sumach Press. Sandra runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, and has won a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the online magazine, ChiZine.
Gord Rollo was born in St. Andrews, Scotland and now lives in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada, where he has many small press and professional credits under his belt. His first full-length horror/suspense novel, Crimson, was released by Prime Books Inc. and his follow up is Jigsaw. Gord is an assistant editor with Cosmos Books, House of Dominion, and Prime Books Inc., and edited the critically acclaimed evolutionary horror anthology, Unnatural Selection A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares. He also co-edited Dreaming of Angels, a horror/fantasy anthology to raise money and awareness for the Downs Syndrome Society.
Brett Alexander Savory is a Bram Stoker Award-winning editor. His day job is also as an editor, at Harcourt Canada in Toronto. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Chiaroscuro/ChiZine, has had nearly 40 stories published in numerous print and online publications, and has written two novels, In and Down and The Distance Travelled both of which are currently with his agent. In the works are a third novel, The Falcon's Necktie, a dark comic book series with artist Homeros Gilani, and a benefit anthology called The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, which will surface in October 2004 through Arsenal Pulp Press. Brett is a graduate of Queen Elizabeth Elementary School, St. Clair Secondary School and Lambton College.
Mark Terry is the author of two books, Catfish Guru, a collection of two mystery novellas featuring forensic toxicologist Dr. Theo MacGreggor; and Dirty Deeds, featuring computer troubleshooter Megan Malloy. In addition to these two books he has published two mystery short stories, one in the online mystery magazine Orchard Press Mysteries featuring Dr. MacGreggor ("Just as Dead") and one in the upcoming anthology Show Business Is Murder. ("Murder at the Heartbreak Hotel.") A freelance writer and editor, Mark Terry's nonfiction work has appeared in Drug Discovery & Development, The Detroit News, Prime Time News, Mystery Scene Magazine, The Armchair Detective and many others. He reviews mysteries for The Oakland Press.
Sarah Zettel has been writing science fiction and fantasy full time since 1998. She is the author of five science fiction novels, four fantasy novels and numerous short stories of both types with a little horror thrown in for good measure. She currently lives in Michigan with her husband Tim, their son Alexander and their cat Buffy the Vermin Slayer.
For more information, log onto www.lambtononline.ca
Contact:
Jeff Beeler or Ellen Dark,
Reference Librarians, Sarnia Branch Library
Lambton County
Telephone: (519) 337-3291
Fax: (519) 337-3041
email: genreconca@yahoo.ca
“The Sarnia Library Presents: An Afternoon of Authors GenreCon 2004”
Sarnia, ON – GenreCon, a free literary convention featuring a dozen notable editors and authors, is returning to Sarnia Library on May 1st.
GenreCon provides fans and local writers with the opportunity to talk with other genre fans and writers. A wide range of panels like how to get published, how genre fiction fits into literature as a whole, whether authors should go for style or just try to tell a good story, and how to create good stories, setting and characters, will be presented, in addition to readings by authors, book signings and sales and short films.
“It’s a friendly, intimate convention,” said Jeffrey Beeler, Reference Librarian. “Our past participants speak highly of their experiences.”
Other activities will include a seminar on book collecting for fun and profit and a book discussion where participants are encouraged to talk about their favourite genre book.
GenreCon starts on Saturday, May 1st at 11 a.m. with a meet and greet reception and runs until library closing at 5:30 p.m. Seating is limited, please contact the Reference Department at (519) 337-3291 to reserve your seat.
The Sarnia Branch of the Lambton County Library is located at 124 Christina Street South, Sarnia, Ontario, one hour northeast of Detroit, Michigan on I-94 and one hour west of London, Ontario on Highway 402.
The following authors will be in attendance at GenreCon 2004:
Lou Allin was born June 5, 1945, in Toronto, Canada, but relocated to Cleveland in 1948 so that her father could work as a booker in the American film industry. After receiving a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature, she became a Professor at Cambrian College in Sudbury in 1977, where she teaches Presentations and Report Writing to Criminal Justice students. The books in the Belle Palmer mystery series by RendezVous Press are: Northern Winters are Murder, Black Flies are Murder, an Arthur Ellis award nominee, and Bush Poodles are Murder.
R. Scott Bakker writes philosophy and fantasy and often has difficulty distinguishing between the two. Every morning he teaches Truth at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, and then he writes falsehoods all afternoon. His first book, an epic fantasy entitled The Darkness That Comes Before, has found its way onto the 'Best of 2003' lists of SF Site, Locus, and Amazon.ca. The sequel, The Warrior Prophet, will be released by Penguin Canada this May.
Rick Blechta is a musician who also makes his living writing crime fiction. It isn’t much of a stretch to understand this when you read his most recent thriller, Shooting Straight in the Dark, since the protagonist is a songwriter/guitarist. He’s also written about violinists, trumpeters and the odd baritone sax player. All his crime novels feature music of some sort or another. He currently resides in Toronto and is married to a musician.
Eric Choi is a science fiction writer and aerospace engineer at MD Robotics in Brampton, where he is currently working on robotic systems for future missions to Mars and other destinations in the Solar system. His latest short story, “A Man’s Place”, will appear the upcoming anthology Space Inc. from DAW.
Dennis Collins on himself: “Growing up as a 50's teenager in Detroit, my interests leaned toward anything with wheels and loud exhaust pipes. I naturally migrated toward the automobile industry where I experienced a fulfilling career in engineering. It has always been my dream to be an author and with my retirement came the opportunity to write.” His first mystery novel The Unreal McCoy is available through Independence Books. The second installment in that series, Turn Left at September, is complete and ready to publish although he is currently seeking representation for this work. Book number three, For Thine is the Power, has recently been finished and is off to the editor for a little housekeeping.
Peter Halasz is an expert in Canadian science fiction and fantasy who has written extensively on the subject. Peter will be a guest of honour at A Commonwealth of Science Fiction in Liverpool, England. He is an Aurora Award winner and is one of the administrators of the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
Marcy Italiano lives in Waterloo, Ontario. Her first novel, Pain Machine was released in the summer of 2003. While she still writes short fiction, her second novel is on its way. For more information about Marcy and her writing, go to www.marcyitaliano.com.
Sandra Kasturi is the editor of the speculative poetry anthology, The Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night, from The Bakka Collection/Red Deer Press. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and she has a cultural essay, “Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood” appearing in the new anthology, Girls Who Bite Back, from Sumach Press. Sandra runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, and has won a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the online magazine, ChiZine.
Gord Rollo was born in St. Andrews, Scotland and now lives in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada, where he has many small press and professional credits under his belt. His first full-length horror/suspense novel, Crimson, was released by Prime Books Inc. and his follow up is Jigsaw. Gord is an assistant editor with Cosmos Books, House of Dominion, and Prime Books Inc., and edited the critically acclaimed evolutionary horror anthology, Unnatural Selection A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares. He also co-edited Dreaming of Angels, a horror/fantasy anthology to raise money and awareness for the Downs Syndrome Society.
Brett Alexander Savory is a Bram Stoker Award-winning editor. His day job is also as an editor, at Harcourt Canada in Toronto. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Chiaroscuro/ChiZine, has had nearly 40 stories published in numerous print and online publications, and has written two novels, In and Down and The Distance Travelled both of which are currently with his agent. In the works are a third novel, The Falcon's Necktie, a dark comic book series with artist Homeros Gilani, and a benefit anthology called The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, which will surface in October 2004 through Arsenal Pulp Press. Brett is a graduate of Queen Elizabeth Elementary School, St. Clair Secondary School and Lambton College.
Mark Terry is the author of two books, Catfish Guru, a collection of two mystery novellas featuring forensic toxicologist Dr. Theo MacGreggor; and Dirty Deeds, featuring computer troubleshooter Megan Malloy. In addition to these two books he has published two mystery short stories, one in the online mystery magazine Orchard Press Mysteries featuring Dr. MacGreggor ("Just as Dead") and one in the upcoming anthology Show Business Is Murder. ("Murder at the Heartbreak Hotel.") A freelance writer and editor, Mark Terry's nonfiction work has appeared in Drug Discovery & Development, The Detroit News, Prime Time News, Mystery Scene Magazine, The Armchair Detective and many others. He reviews mysteries for The Oakland Press.
Sarah Zettel has been writing science fiction and fantasy full time since 1998. She is the author of five science fiction novels, four fantasy novels and numerous short stories of both types with a little horror thrown in for good measure. She currently lives in Michigan with her husband Tim, their son Alexander and their cat Buffy the Vermin Slayer.
For more information, log onto www.lambtononline.ca
Contact:
Jeff Beeler or Ellen Dark,
Reference Librarians, Sarnia Branch Library
Lambton County
Telephone: (519) 337-3291
Fax: (519) 337-3041
email: genreconca@yahoo.ca
