Sorry to come tripping through here...but I'm trying to find contact info for John Bradley, former San Franscico Bay Area fan, now Seattle Area fan. At Westercon, he asked to be notified when SMOF Racing's horse, Cara Blanco, would be running next. Well, that's this Sunday in the 2nd at Emerald Downs. He wanted to be able to go take pictures.

If anyone has a way to reach him, could you please either point him to this post, galtine1, or cara_blanco?

Greatly appreciated.

Sandra Childress 

Dearest Friends, Family and Supporters,

It is with our deepest regret that we must announce that the
Washington Renaissance Fantasy Faire, planned to be held August 2, 3, 9,
10, 16, 17, 2008, in Belfair Washington has been canceled.

Due to challenges with the permitting process and after a meeting
with the Department of Natural Resources yesterday and a meeting this
morning with the Mason County Commissioners, we have not and will not be
granted our permits to run the Faire this season. We have done
everything that we could have done and have exhausted all avenues to
make this event happen on the new site this year.

We offer our deepest and sincerest apologies to all that this
cancellation will affect. We understand that plans have been made,
tickets have been bought and travel plans have been arranged in order to
attend the Washington Renaissance Faire.

It is our sincerest hope to work with the Mason County
Commissioners, the Department of Natural Resources and the Planning
Commission for Mason County to resolve these challenges satisfactorily
in order to re-open the Washington Renaissance Faire in August of 2009
on our new site in Belfair, Washington.

Thank you all for the support and love that you have offered us over
the past 11 years and know that you have our deepest gratitude for your
support both now through these trying times and in the future as we grow
and prosper.

Sincerely,
Ron and Teresa Cleveland and all the
Washington Renaissance Faire Staff
Washington Renaissance Faire

Visit the Norwescon web site for information about the Guests of Honor and Spotlight Publisher for Norwescon 32.

R.A. Salvatore is a New York Times bestselling author. His books have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. His first novel, The Crystal Shard, was published 1988, and became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy.

Chesley Award Winning Artist, Todd Lockwood's work has been featured in paintings for WoTC (TSR) and covers for Asimov's and Analog. He produced the cover art for R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, he is a graduate of the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. After much moving about and finding himself, he is now a resident of Washington State. He has played role-playing games for over 25 years and maintains a fantasy world in his basement, reportedly "... just behind the water heater...".

Geno Salvatore has collaborated on several R.A. Salvatore projects including Fast Forward Games, R.A. Salvatore's The DemonWars Campaign Setting and R.A. Salvatore's The DemonWars Player's Guide. He co-authored R.A. Salvatore's DemonWars Prologue, a DemonWars short story that appeared in the comic book published by Devil's Due Publishing. He is a recent graduate of Boston University and lives in Massachusetts.

Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., will be our spotlighted publisher at Norwescon 32. Wizards of the Coast is the leading publisher in the trading card game and tabletop role-playing game categories and is closely associated with the works of our Writer and Artist Guests of Honor.


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We are thrilled to announce our Artist Guest of Honor for Norwescon 32 will be Todd Lockwood!  Todd is a well known artist with a long history in magazine covers, book covers, and games - check out his online gallery!

July 15th Mason County Commissioners will be voting on the final approval for the temporary permit to allow us to run the Washington Renaissance Faire.

Unfortunately the Commissioners have been hearing constantly from a small but passionate and very vocal few who oppose our event.

We would like to ask that you contact the commissioners and respectfully voice your support so that when they vote, they know there is a very large majority of supporters.

Tim Sheldon: Tims@co.mason.wa.us
Ross Gallagher: rossg@co.mason.wa.us
Linda Ring Erickson: lyndare@co.mason.wa.us

Please pass this message to anyone who you believe may be interested in showing their support.

Your help and support is deeply appreciated, we are down to the wire and we need this permit.

Thank you.


-Victoria

As you may have seen I announced the first NWSFS afternoon movie outing yesterday. So now a quick poll on future movie outings.

( poll behind cut )

Just a reminder that in the near future NWSFS will be using the NWSFS group group as the main way to send out notices about future events and socials.

So if you wish to keep getting notices you will need to create a google groups account and then join the NWSFS-announcements group, here is a link you can go to sign up:

http://groups.google.com/group/nwsfs-announcements

If you have any problems please contact me and I'll see what I can do to help you.

NOTE: You really need to set up a google group account as well as sign up to the list. Otherwise the group will NOT send you email and you will need to check the website to see your new messages.

Shawn Marier
NWSFS Vice Chair

( July NWSFS Social )

Thomas Disch was the GoH at Norwescon 5.
Here's a wikipedia article about Thomas Disch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch
And here's what editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow wrote in her LiveJournal http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/93886.html

Linda Deneroff sent this to me:
Using Google, I found the following news items regarding the accident:

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=8612964
and an annoying 16-second video here:
http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=8612964
"No word yet if drugs or alcohol were involved in this crash." Jeez,
is that all they can think of to say?

Linda

At 03:01 PM 7/2/2008, you wrote:
>For anyone who knows her and had not heard, here's what I have:
>
>We have heard from some of our fannish friends the tragic news that
>Seattle's Roberta "Bert" Carlson was killed today in an automobile
>accident on her way to Westercon. We are devastated to learn of
>Bert's death, and the injuries to the other people in the car in
>which she was traveling.
>
>Roberta Carlson's death is a serious loss for those in fandom who
>knew her as a delightful person and convention-runner.
>
>Our sympathies and prayers go to Roberta's family, friends, and
>loved ones, and to all of the members of the Seattle in 2011 bid
>committee. We very much hope for a speedy and complete recovery for
>William Boyde, Nez, Howazer, and Nick Navota.
>
>-- Patty Wells and the entire Reno committee

Hi All

Nick is out of surgery and is pretty much ok.

He has lost 3 figures on his right hand and they have reconnected his right
figure and thumb on his left hand and they will see if the body doesn't
reject them.

Like I said before the others are ok and only have bumps and bruises. They
are very shaken but they have all (with Bobbie and Jerry) got to Vegas.

More later... Please post this to list or LJ

Gene

Bert is chair of Rustycon this year. This will be a hard blow for them as an organization as well as for those of us who knew her.
My heart goes out to her friends and family (both natal and extended).
Life is short, and unpredictable. Hold your dear ones close.

The following was just posted by Gene Armstrong on a couple of the email lists:


Today on the trip down to Westercon there has been a deadly accident. We
don't have all the details yet but Roberta "Bert" Carlson was killed in a
rollover accident. The family has been told and will keep me informed and I
will keep you informed. They thank us all for there support, but please ask
if you have and sympathy emails you want to send please send them to me at
genecon@hotmail.com and I will get them to the family.

Also in the car was William Boyde, Nez, and Howazor. They are doing ok and
have been released for the hospital. Nick Navota was also in the car and is
being flown to a hospital with a crushed hand and there going to see if they
can save the hand. Bobbie and Jerry are on the seine with them.

If you have any questions you can email me at genecon@hotmail.com or you can
call me at 206-304-4531.

Gene Armstrong


*** I think 'Howazor" is "Lt. Howitzer", I think we can forgive Gene for the typo...

For those that don't know who Bert is she ran Norwescon's Hospitality the last couple of years. She will be missed by all of us.

As the new Vice Chair of the Northwest Science Fiction Society it is my job to make sure that everyone knows about all the events which NWSFS is hosting. To make this easier (and to cut down on the number of messages in multiple LJs) I have setup a google group to send out announcements of future events and socials. Once this new mailing list hits critical mass I will no longer flood multiple multiple lists with announcements.

If you would like to join please go to

http://groups.google.com/group/nwsfs-announcements/subscribe

The next scheduled NWSFS event is the monthly My Favorite Restaurant, which will be held on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 7:00 PM at the Black Bear Diner in Redmond.

For more details on the MFR: http://www.nwsfs.org/mfr/mfr.htm

Shawn Marier
NWSFS Vice Chair

If you haven't already taken it, could you please take the NWSFS activities poll.

NWSFS LJ Activities poll

Don Glover, head of publications here. I am looking for a new webmaster Norwescon.

If you are interested in helping out in this area of the convention, please contact me at webmasters@norwescon.net

Check out Patrick Rothfuss's 10-second Interview on Amazon, in support of his Trilogy, "The Kingkiller Chronicle".

I am a procrastinator. Sadly, I guess I'm also a fibber, because I promised I'd have my article done for the Charity department several weeks ago now, and I haven't even started.

Don't be like me!! If you are supposed to do an article for the Postcon report, do Norwescon a favor and get it in. I'm going to write mine now. (Sorry Tracy!)

Please visit the volunteers page on the Norwescon web site for information about the volunteer picnic.


(There are also several other announcements on the bulletin area on the home page).

Edited (because links are good):
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Well, I've been chair for a bit less than a month now, and I have to admit that the hardest thing about this is that every decision, every idea, every hope and plan is overshadowed by the fact that I am a (very) minority chair. I really wanted it, plan to do as good a job as possible, keep people talking to each other, and always, always put Norwescon first and me second.
If you emailed me within the last couple of weeks and I haven't replied yet, ping me again in a couple of days. I had to go out of town for a funeral, and work concerns have kept me at my desk during lunch, so I have fallen behind.
On the up side, the exec team has been chosen, and they are as good as they come. Norwescon is very fortunate in the talented people willing to work for it!
I'll try to post here at least a couple of times a month. Remember, I want to hear from you. Good or bad, I need to know.
Becky

I know the traveling group was shut down by Fox, but I've heard that some conventions are still going ahead with their shows. From what I understand, as long as the shows are not charging extra and making a profit, they aren't breaking any laws. Is it possible that Norwescon may have have a BHPS also?

For clarification, the Buffy Horror Picture Show is just like the Rocky shows: the musical Buffy episode is shown on a screen and people dressed up as the characters act it out while everyone sings the songs and calls out various add-ons. I've gone to a couple in the past, and they're always amazing.

Toastmaster at Norwescon 6
GoH at Norwescon 11

http://www.locusmag.com/index.html

I wish I'd had twice as much fabric to give away because the demand has been amazing!  My sorrow that I didn't multiples of certain items for everyone.  Here is an updated list of what's left.  I'm off to sort and bundle up peoples' requests. Drop me an email to my LJ account or leave a comment if any of the below interest you or you are one of the lucky recipients.  A big thank you to everyone who responded - I know Betty would be pleased!

 

I just posted a poll over in the nwsfs community, if you are interested in NWSFS activities (Norwescon's sister social organization) please go take it.

NWSFS poll

Just a friendly reminder that when you use the web site to book your room, by default it has you checking in on Wednesday and leaving on Monday.