Just a little heads up. The 2009 room block is now full. That is good news and bad news. Good that we have met our obligation, bad that future rooms may have a higher price.
If you are planning a party confirm or reconfirm it with the chair.
From 1989 to 1992 WSFA Press published one book each year to honor the Guest of Honor of its annual convention, Disclave, and now for Capclave 2009, WSFA Press lives again, returning to its roots, with a new website, wsfapress.com, a renewed focus, and a new project: a limited run of Reincarnations by Harry Turtledove, a short story collection containing six stories never-before-reprinted, an original story, story notes, and an introduction by Sheila Williams, the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.
Issued in both a 250-copy signed and numbered edition, and a 750-copy limited edition, Reincarnations marks WSFA’s first new project in four years, and the first in a new ongoing publishing program to commemorate Capclave’s author guests of honor. Both editions will launch at Capclave, and be thereafter available from selected dealers, including Edge Books, Wrigley-Cross, Zeising Books, and many more, or available for preordering, now, from the new WSFA Press website, at wsfapress.com.
“Harry can count two generations of my family among his thousands of readers. Since you’re holding this book right now, I’m glad that you are, or will soon be, one of those lucky readers, too.”—Sheila Williams, from her introduction
The Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is the oldest science fiction club in the greater Washington area. Its members are interested in all types of science fiction and fantasy literature as well as related areas such as fantasy and science fiction films, television, costuming, gaming, filking, convention-running, and more.
Contact Gayle Surrette or Paul Haggerty, at wsfapress@gmail.com.
It is official, the Turtledove collection Reincarnations can be bought at the WSFA press website. http://www.wsfapressbooks.org/
Volunteers are needed to help with the many aspects of the con. You can sign up by dropping the chair a note or just ask at the con.
Friday night at Capclave, following the WSFA business meeting, there will be a discussion of the October November double issue of Asimov’s with Sheila Williams. So remember to pick up a copy and read it before the con. There will be one issue in the con suite for people to browse as well.
Capclave is next month. Where has the time gone? I have no idea, but things are progressing. I haven’t written about the big news because I was waiting for some technical issues to get ironed out. The news is filtering out, so, WSFA Press is producing a limited edition of several of Harry Turtledove’s short stories titled Reincarnations. This is a great collection that includes a new story and several that heven’t been reprinted. There will also be a number of numbered and presigned copies of the collection. You can preorder now, but the electroniuc payment system is being messed with by the wonderful folks at a certain online payment site. It should be fixed soon.
In other news, the programming is coming together. The program should be fun with several new features to Capclave.
If you haven’t signed up, make sure you get in before the switch to at the door pricing October 1st. Those who are eligible for the Military, Student, or wounded veteran your price is the same no matter when you sign up. $20 for Saturday or $25 for the weekend.
Bill L.
Chair 2009
[/caption]The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:
“Hard Rain at the Fortean Café” by Lavie Tidhar, published in issue 14 of Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, edited by Bridget McKenna.
“His Last Arrow” by Christopher Sequeira, published in Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Jeff Campbell and Charles Prepolec, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, (October, 2008).
“Silent as Dust” by James Maxey, published in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, edited by Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack Publishing (January 2008).
“Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, published in Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008)
“The Absence of Stars: Part 1” by Greg Siewert, published in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, edited by Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack Publishing (December 2008).
“The Toy Car” by Luisa Maria Garcia Velasco, (translated from Spanish by Ian Watson) published in April 2008 edition of Aberrant Dreams, edited by Joseph W. Dickerson.
The award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The
award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2008). An unusual feature of the selection
process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the
quality of the story.
The winner is chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association (www.wsfa.org) and will be presented at their annual convention, Capclave (www.capclave.org), held this year on October 16-18th in Rockville, Maryland.
Jane Jewell, Executive Director of SFWA, will give you insight into the arcana of contracts: What do those terms mean? Sub-Rights? Territories? Reserve Against Returns? What to look out for. What you can usually change just by asking. What they won’t budge an inch on. All those things that you’d really rather learn before you start negotiating your next contract.
There is no charge for the workshop, however, you do have to registered for Capclave in order to attend. Check out the Capclave website for registration information. If you are interested, send an e-mail to our head of programming. Or check at the Registration Desk at the Convention to see if there is room in the workshop.If you are interested, send an e-mail to our head of programming.
Peter Heck gives a discussion of the problems and techniques of book reviewing, with an emphasis on reviewing of SF, fantasy and related genres. Participants may bring a short review (under 500 words) of a recent book for group discussion. In addition to consideration of specific reviews, the workshop will focus on ways to write an effective and useful review, the relation of reviewing and criticism, and the requirements of different audiences. Limited to 12 participants.
There is no charge for the workshop, however, you do have to registered for Capclave in order to attend. Check out the Capclave website for registration information. Check at the Registration Desk at the Convention to see if there is room in the workshop.
We’ve recently begun a full update of the email addresses on our e-mail notification list. However, we’ve run into a tiny technical glitch. While some of you have sent us e-mail asking to be on our list, and some of you have registered on-line and asked to be on the list, the vast majority of people signed up using our “Capclave Wants You” form. The technical glitch is that the form doesn’t actually ask if you want us to add your email address to our list.
As a fervant “opt-in” person, I can not in good conscious use the email address you provided for registration purposes, unless you actually want me to.
Therefore, I’m asking all of you who read this blog, and who would like to be on our e-mail notification list, to send me an email at the webmaster account at the capclave.org domain.
Thanks,
Paul Haggerty/Webmaster
We decided that rather than try to figure out where to update everyone about the doing and news about upcoming capclaves, we’d just create and use this blog. You can reach us directly by bookmarking the Capclave Blog, using the button on the Capclave Website or doing the usual Google thing.
So, check back often to see what we’ve been upto and what you can look forward to as Capclave approaches.
