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Jim at Phoenix ComiCon - June 5-8
OZ:
I bought my event pass tonight before the price went up so I guess I'm in for sure. The Sheraton ballroom sounds like a great idea. Now people can just line up to get good seats rather than waiting to get any seat at all. Now I have to figure whether to spend the money to park downtown or ride the lightrail in.
mcjanie:
Thank you, Lee! The update is much appreciated, as is your scrapping for room assignments with the other departments. Just bought the full membership and am really looking forward to the author panels that are shaping up (Scott Lynch too? squeee!). Really great work on the con this year, thank you so much. You guys keep exceeding all reasonable expectations, and should be very proud of yourselves. See you all at the Jim show!
Serack:
--- Quote from: sftv on April 30, 2014, 07:57:55 PM ---A quick update for you all.
First of all, yes, we are trying to make sure everyone who wants to see Jim will be able to get into his panels. His solo talk will be Saturday morning and in the ballroom at the Sheraton that seats around 1,500 (where we will have several of the author guest solo talks this year). One group panel will also be there on Friday. The rest will be in 500 seat rooms in the convention center, so those may reach capacity. There's been lots of going back and forth with other programming departments over who gets to use the bigger rooms and we think we have it sorted out now. Its really been a big jigsaw puzzle this year with the number of authors we have and as the schedule comes together, pieces get moved around so I've held off publishing the specific day/time for those that might still move.
We are planning to do a signing each day, but those haven't been finalized yet.
I do want to note that our membership projections have gone up and there is the possibility that memberships may end up capped. The price for the weekend does go up at midnight tonight, so if you want to save a few dollars, go for it.
We did announce some new guests of note, Paul and Storm, who will be doing a concert on Friday night with definite participation by John Scalzi and Pat Rothfuss (and possibly others). You may have seen their video with George R. R. Martin showing up called "Write Like the Wind".
Any other questions, post them here.
Lee Whiteside
Books and Authors Manager, Phoenix Comicon
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Wow, sounds like a mini-w00tstock. I envy your guests. It's been 13 years since I lived in AZ.
Rasins:
--- Quote from: Serack on May 01, 2014, 03:44:08 PM ---Wow, sounds like a mini-w00tstock. I envy your guests. It's been 13 years since I lived in AZ.
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Agreed, only it's been 35 years since we moved out of Phoenix.
RetroGamer:
Oh man, I just looked on a whim to see if Jim was going to be anywhere near me any time soon, and he will be two hours north of me, three days before my birthday! I am so in. I missed the Tucson Comicon when he was the guest, so I'm getting a party together to head up to Phoenix!
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