October ConCom Meeting
Would you like to help plan, organize, and create the Pacific Northwest’s premier science-fiction and fantasy convention? Norwescon is always looking for volunteers, and our monthly Convention Committee planning meetings are a great way to get involved! Come pull back the curtain, meet the masterminds behind the event, and find out where your particular talents can be put to use!
October’s Norwescon 35 planning meeting will be held:
DATE
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
TIME
10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon: Executive Team Meeting
12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.: Lunch break
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Convention Committee (ConCom) Meeting
PLACE
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 Pacific Highway South
SeaTac, WA 98188
206-246-8600
For directions and a map, please see the hotel’s website.
NOTE: There is a discounted charge of $8.00 for parking.
Please consult the hotel readerboard when you arrive for the location of the meeting room.
FUTURE EVENTS
- November meeting: 11/5/2011
- December meeting: 12/10/2011
- January meeting: 1/7/2012
- February meeting: 2/18/2012
- March meeting: 3/17/2012
- Norwescon 35: 4/5-8/2012
- Post Con Meeting: 5/12/2012
Book your hotel room now!
It was announced at yesterday’s ConCom volunteer meeting that the block of rooms reserved for Norwescon’s use at the Doubletree hotel is already 90% full! While it’s great to see that many of you planning ahead, it does mean that we’re expecting to completely book the hotel quite soon. If you’ve been considering getting a room at the hotel for Norwescon 35, but haven’t done so yet, we recommend you make your reservation soon!
If you do run into any difficulties booking your room, have special accommodation needs, or any other hotel-related questions, please email hotels@norwescon.org and we’ll do what we can to get you taken care of!
September ConCom Meeting
Would you like to help plan, organize, and create the Pacific Northwest’s premier science-fiction and fantasy convention? Norwescon is always looking for volunteers, and our monthly Convention Committee planning meetings are a great way to get involved! Come pull back the curtain, meet the masterminds behind the event, and find out where your particular talents can be put to use!
September’s Norwescon 35 planning meeting will be held:
DATE
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
TIME
10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon: Executive Team Meeting
12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.: Lunch break
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Convention Committee (ConCom) Meeting
PLACE
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 Pacific Highway South
SeaTac, WA 98188
206-246-8600
For directions and a map, please see the hotel’s website.
NOTE: There is a discounted charge of $8.00 for parking.
Please consult the hotel readerboard when you arrive for the location of the meeting room.
FUTURE EVENTS
- October meeting: 10/8/2011
- November meeting: 11/5/2011
- December meeting: 12/10/2011
- January meeting: 1/7/2012
- February meeting: 2/11/2012
- March meeting: 3/17/2012
- Norwescon 35: 4/5-8/2012
- Post Con Meeting: 5/12/2012
Rainn Wilson in the Los Angeles Times
Actor and comedian Rainn Wilson mentions Norwescon (again!) in this article in the Los Angeles Times.
When I was growing up in the ’70s in suburban Seattle, I had a secret obsession. I was a science fiction and fantasy nerd. This was waaaay before it was ever halfway cool to be one. This was before “Star Wars,” mind you. Before Comic-Con and “The Dark Knight” and the “Lord of the Rings” movies. These were the dark days of “Logan’s Run” and “Zardoz” and “Silent Running.”
My dad was an aspiring sci-fi author and we used to go every year to NorWesCon, the sci-fi and fantasy convention of Seattle. The most bizarre, mossy, unwashed nerds of the northwest would crawl out of their caves and cabins and caverns and descend upon the Ramada Inn at Sea-Tac airport for a weekend of lectures, book signings and Dungeons & Dragons gaming.
Norwescon 35 Artist Guest of Honor: John Picacio
Norwescon is proud to announce John Picacio as our Artist Guest of Honor for Norwescon 35!
Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio
Some of his most notable covers over the years include A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (HarperCollins/Eos); Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Ballantine/Del Rey); Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock (Ballantine/Del Rey); the 2005 Chesley Award-winning artwork for Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. (Tachyon); the 2009 Chesley Award-winning artwork for Fast Forward 2, edited by Lou Anders (Pyr); the Age of Misrule trilogy by Mark Chadbourn (Pyr); Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons (Subterranean Press); the Well-Built City trilogy by Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon); and Ghosts of Columbia by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor).
His accolades include the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, four Chesley Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards, all in the Artist category, as well as two Asimovs Poll Awards for Best Cover Art. He has seven Hugo Award nominations for Best Professional Artist and his work is often featured in the pages of Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.
Amongst his forthcoming published works will be the much-anticipated 2012 calendar for George R. R. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire (Random House/Bantam) as well as covers for Ian McDonalds YA novel debut Planesrunner (Pyr) and new limited editions of Dan Simmons classic The Hyperion Cantos (Subterranean Press). He and his wife Traci live in San Antonio, TX with daughter Samantha.
- Web: www.johnpicacio.com
- Blog: http://picacio.blogspot.com/
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/JohnPicacio
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johnpicacio
