Monday will be the last day to pre-order your banquet tickets! Go here to purchase them. We’ll be closing the web-based purchase system after that.
However, don’t worry, we will have additional banquet tickets available at the convention through noon on Friday, October 30. If you haven’t purchased one, stop by registration desk.
Saturday – 8:00 PM Club Regent Publishing and Bookselling in 10 years – Maryelizabeth Hart no longer participating
As with most high quality hotels, the Fairmont charges a daily rate for Internet access from your room. However, if you are a member of their President’s Club scheme then you get Internet in your room for free. And joining the President’s Club costs you — nothing. (You may have to give them a credit card number as that’s part of the express check-in system, but there is no club membership fee.) Details on how to join are on the hotel web site.
That access is for sleeping rooms only. It does not extend to the convention space. We are hoping to have free wi-fi available there too, but we don’t have any firm details yet as to how many simultaneous connections we’ll be able to afford.
Welcome please, Eraserhead Press. By my count that puts us up to 33.
We’ve added a couple more versions of the program for you:
As these require quite a bit of width they are PDFs designed mainly to be printed out
We have once again updated our list of participating dealers. A warm welcome, please, to: Terence McVicker – Rare Books, Red Jack Books and Realms of Fantasy Books.
The full list of attending dealers can be found here.
Saturday 10:00 AM Why Steampunk Now? — Nisi Shawl added
OK, so there’s a week to go before the convention, but those of us coming from overseas are wondering what to pack.
The forecast for the coming week in San José is warm and dry with temperatures in the region of 70 F (21 C). However, there’s a possibility of showers on the Saturday of the convention. That’s right at the limit of the long range forecast, so we’ll keep an eye on that for you.
Please note that if you or your family is planning to go touristing in San Francisco the weather there will be several degrees colder. The City is on the waterfront and also more windy than San José. Take a jacket and an umbrella, just in case.
If you were wondering how to find all of those places listed in the program schedule, here’s a map.
Yes, this will all be in the pocket program you get at the convention.
Yesterday we gave you the program schedule listings. But static listings are not always what you need, so today we have added a program schedule blog that allows you to select by room, by event type and so on. The smart phone interface also allows you to select by participant.
For boring technical reasons that you won’t want us to go into, this is on a separate blog on this site. You can find it here.
Tomorrow (hopefully), printable grids.