We are thrilled to announce that we are having the first 1632Con since 2021 in less than three months as part of FantaSci in Raleigh-Durham, NC! We hope you are as excited about this as we are! As of late January, the hotel block still has rooms and there are still tickets available. Please join us! We would love to meet you in person. Eric Flint was scheduled to attend two cons in the winter of 2022 (listed below), but he became too ill and didn’t make either one. How perfect, then that the first 1632Con after his passing is at FantaSci 2024! SUPERSTARS WRITING CONFERENCE 2022February 9-12, 2022, Colorado Springs, Colorado FANTASCI 2022March 25-27, 2022, Durham, North Carolina (And yes, we will try to give more notice in future years.)
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by Eric Flint | Jun 14, 2018 | Information | 3 comments June 14, 2018 I have the following titles that qualify for nomination for the Dragon Award to be handed out at DragonCon this year. (For more information on DragonCon, see: http://www.dragoncon.org/) BEST FANTASY NOVEL: The Demons of Paris, by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff. BEST HORROR NOVEL: Iron Angels, by Eric Flint and Alistair Kimble. BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL. I have several novels that qualify in this category: The Alexander Inheritance, by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff. 1636: The Vatican Sanction, by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon. 1637: The Volga Rules, by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff. If you’ve read any of these novels and liked them enough, please nominate them for their respective awards. Nominations will be closed on July 20, 2018. Voting will take place shortly thereafter. 3 Comments Jim on June 27, 2018 at 2:08 AMWhy would a socialist want to win awards so much? Is it because your a capitalist? Hypocrite. Drak Bibliophile on June 28, 2018 at 7:52 AMAh, but he is a capitalist and makes no bones about it. Mike on October 2, 2018 at 7:53 PMI’m confused by the whole idea that a socialist would not want to win awards. I think maybe you don’t understand what socialism is.
by Gorg Huff | Jul 18, 2015 | Information | 5 comments I was just invited to be the Guest of Honor at Balticon over the weekend of May 26-29, 2017. That takes place in Baltimore, if you haven’t figured it out already. The reason for the invitation so far ahead of time is because Balticon also agreed to host the 1632 series minicon that year as well. Next year, in 2016, the 1632 series minicon is being hosted by Fencon in Dallas over the weekend of September 23-25. 5 Comments John Cowan on July 18, 2015 at 1:45 PMEh, when I saw the title I figured it was going to be in Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. Color me over-sophisticated. Joe on July 20, 2015 at 2:35 PMThat would be Baltikon. Easy mistake. Steve on July 20, 2015 at 4:38 PMEric Flint would not be the guest of honor were it in Latvia, Erics Flints would be (on account of a weird Latvian linguistic convention that all mens’ names must end in at least one “s”). But I think Sweden or Germamy would be more appropriate for a con on the Baltic with him as GOH. Bret Hooper on December 5, 2016 at 10:49 PMWhen and where can one get info about the 2017 Balticon and RoF Minicon? Balticon’s website is still all about the 2016 Balticon, which I doubt is still attracting many more fans to the 2016 con. How can they be persuaded that it is too late to get more people to the 2016 con? That their money would be better spent to increase attendance at the 2017 con?Provided that Eric is still going to be GoH and the Minicon is still going to be there, I want to be at the 2017 Balticon, with my son who lives nearby in Maryland, but how does one register for it? And what is the program schedule? And . . . ? Bret Hooper on January 5, 2017 at 9:41 PMUpdate:…
by Gorg Huff | Mar 13, 2015 | Information | 5 comments After it became clear that we wouldn’t be holding the 1632 series minicon at Contemporal this year, we approached LibertyCon and they’ve agreed to host us. LibertyCon is a longstanding and very popular SF convention in Chattanooga that I’ve attended a number of times, including as MC and (IIRC) Guest of Honor. This year, David Weber and David Drake will be attending LibertyCon also. LibertyCon is being held this year on the weekend of June 26-28. Here’s the URL, for those of you who are interested: http://www.libertycon.org 5 Comments George ferguson on March 16, 2015 at 10:20 AMKeep it in NC, but, come west to Asheville or Charlotte. Bryan on March 16, 2015 at 9:34 PMor go a little further west to Chattanooga, TN http://chattanoogaconventioncenter.org/ Reinaldo on March 28, 2015 at 5:52 PMHi all, here every person is sharing these experience, so it’s pleasant to read thisweblog, and I used to go to see this web site daily. masajistas alicante on April 19, 2015 at 7:49 AMMuy Interesante Mike on May 19, 2015 at 11:40 AMGorg, it looks like Eric’s Appearances page still lists Contemporal and not Chattacon. Alas, I won’t be able to make either. Libertycon filling up fast by Gorg Huff | Apr 28, 2015 | Information | 2 comments Minicon Update: Latest report from Uncle Timmy: they already have over 550 people preregistered and the Banquet is almost sold out. Remember that Libertycon has a hard cap of 700 registrations. 2 Comments Jen on May 11, 2015 at 2:33 AM What I’m Reading on 04/17/2015 | Blog | Bob Sutor Innovation on June 10, 2015 at 6:16 AM Ericflint.net – The official home page of author Eric …
by Eric Flint | Jan 23, 2013 | Information, Writing Dear friends, As many of you know, for the past several years I have been teaching a seminar once a year on the business of being a professional writer. This is a three-day seminar that I do with Kevin Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Dave Wolverton (who often writes under the name of David Farland) and various special guests who vary from one year to the next. This is not the usual writer’s workshop. We assume that those people who take the seminar have the skills to be professional writers. What we spend three days doing is teaching you everything you need to know about the business of becoming a writer. That includes strategies for getting published, the use of agents, electronic publishing, how to read and understand contracts and royalty statements, and so on. People who’ve taken this seminar in the past have uniformly told us that they found it very helpful. Many of them take the seminar a second or even a third time-so many, in fact, that we now have a special lower rate for alumni. This year, in 2013, we will be holding the seminar on May 14-16 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Past venues have includes Pasadena, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Las Vegas, Nevada.) Special guests will include Jim Minz, the chief editor for Baen Books; Joan Johnston, a bestselling romance author; James Owen, a bestselling storyteller and illustrator; and Mark Leslie LeFebvre, the Director of Self Publishing and chief of author relations for Kobo.If you’re interested in looking further into the seminar, please look at our URL: http://superstarswriting.com/ POST HOC: I also participated in a different sort of seminar this year for the first time. This was a more traditional writers workshop, although it also covered aspects of the business of publishing. The workshop was held on a Caribbean cruise liner to the Bahamas and lasted for four days: December 2 through December 6.…
by Eric Flint | Feb 13, 2012 | Information Eric will be the guest of honor at SoonerCon 21, June 15-17 2012 in Oklahoma City, OK. http://www.soonercon.com/ Eric will be the master of ceremonies at LibertyCon 25, July 20-22 2012 at the Chatanooga Choo Choo hotel in Chatanooga, TN http://www.libertycon.org/ Eric, and the entire 1632 crew will be holding the 2012 edition of the 1632 Minicon at WorldCon 70 / Chicon 7 Aug 30 through Sept 3 2012 in Chicago. http://chicon.org/ More appearances will be listed as we know them.
by webmaster | Apr 24, 2006 | Information The loyal minions have just heard that Eric has accepted an offer to be a guest at Conspiracy 2, the 28th annual New Zealand SF Convention to be held in Wellington over Queen’s Birthday weekend, 1 – 4 June 2007. for more information visit http://conspiracy2.sf.org.nz (NOTE: The link points to the 2007 version of the page via the Wayback Machine at Archive.org.)Â –Loyal Minions (Just for a sense of scale, and to let you know how cool it might be to go to, this year’s New Zealand national SF Convention is being held in a hotel with 68 rooms, and they say that “we should be able to take over a large chunk of it.” The 2007 con hotel has 65 rooms.)
by webmaster | Mar 15, 2006 | Information | 2 comments Travel plans announced to date: I-Con March 24-26 Stoney Brook University, NY Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor (Not a Baen’s Universe event probably; there is not time to set it up) Nebula Awards Weekend May 4 – 7, Tempe, AZ Eric Flint and David Weber will be presenting the first ever Andre Norton award. Sarah Hoyt (Eric’s co-author and a member of the Baen’s Universe editorial board) will be attending. Convergence July 7 – 9, Bloomington, MN Eric Flint and David Weber will be there.. David Weber GoH, Eric Flint “Past GoH” Conestoga July 28 – 30, Tulsa, OK David Drake GoH Rick Boatright & Paula Goodlett will be there. (No they’re not authors, No, Eric won’t be there, but there will be a “Universe” presense and we thought you might want to know.) 1632 Minicon IV – Aug 4-5-6, Mannington, WV Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce, Paula Goodlett, Rick Boatright, and a host of others. WorldCon August 23 – 27, Los Angeles, CA Eric Flint and countless other authors. Con-Stellation October 20-22, Huntville, AL Eric will be attending, David Drake GoH, with Toni Weisskopf World Fantasy Con November 2 – 5, Austin, Texas. Eric Flint and David Drake and a host of others. Note that membership to WFC is strictly limited. 2 Comments Sea Wasp on March 15, 2006 at 3:23 PMHey, what about I-Con? Coming up the 24 – 26th of March? webmaster on March 15, 2006 at 6:25 PMOk, what about it? — I can only list the things I know about. 🙁 Even loyal minions have their limits you know.