Best-selling author Ann C. Crispin’s Dragon*Con workshops have generated two successful online writers’ groups and published stories and novels by at least six of Crispin’s students, Crispin told her Advanced Writers’ Workshop students Sunday. The workshop had a full roster of 18 students and featured self-editing and marketing/promotion this year. The first online writers’ support and critique group started as… Read more →
Dr. Specula delivered incredibly wise advice Friday during Dragon*Con’s opening ceremonies after looking deep into the enigma that is America’s largest fantasy/science fiction convention. “Have a great time! Don’t kill anybody!” Dr. Specula told the rows of audience. The packed Centennial ballroom responded with a collective groan. Oddly, these possibly homicidal creatures—some of them wearing wings, crowns and other species… Read more →
Welcome to Dragon*Con 2005! As some of you returning to the convention may have noticed, we’ve been having some growing pains in the past few years. So for 2005, the Hilton Atlanta joins the Hyatt Regency and the Marriott Marquis as an official Dragon*Con host hotel. All three hotels are within easy walking distance of each other. We hope convention-goers… Read more →
Information New Tracks for 2004 Parties, Happenings, Events 2004 Programming Changes Debra Dixon Offers Workshop for Novelists Features Lost in Translation: Dragon*Con Style Oneupmanship D*C Tracks Cover SF TV Highlights Hurricane Frances Felt at Dragon*Con Independent Film Fest Entries Shown Chain Mail Art Panel Goes Medieval Daily Dragon Cartoons Do Clothes Make the Alien? Bad Boys of Buffy and Angel… Read more →
Doctor Zathras’s Traveling B5 Medicine Show Meet Babylon 5 fans (and maybe cast & crew) at this additional, independent B5 programming. Socials, panels, lotteries, and swag! A new event every day. Friday: “B5 Diplomatic Mixer.” Come and get your first taste of Doctor Zathras’s exciting offerings! 8:30PM, Champions Sports Bar (Marriott). Saturday: Open panel. topic to be decided. (Possibilities include:… Read more →
I felt like Bill Murray in the beginning of Lost in Translation only instead of being the tallest person in the crowded hotel elevator, I was the only one not donning wings, latex or a Storm Trooper uniform. I had just checked in at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency where I’d come to attend Dragon*Con, America’s largest annual popular arts convention… Read more →
Winners of the Dragon*Con 2004 Art Show were selected Sunday. Guest Judges Ann Sudworth and Charles Vess selected Best in Show and judged artists in professional, amateur and student categories. Fans attending the Art Show voted for special awards. Dragon*Con artists voted for the Artist Choice award. Results in each category are listed below. Repeating the excitement of last year’s… Read more →
Captain Khetara sutai-Lorenssith (Christine Evans-Arriaga) was crowned 2004 Miss Klingon Empire Sunday evening at Dragon*Con. The pageant featured one assassination, multiple injuries, death threats, and territorial disputes among previous pageant winners. Docked to prevent hurricane damage, the I.K.A.V. Battle Fury lent its flag to the event. The flag was handmade by Lt. Col. j’rel vestai-Kar (Delton Wilson) in a time-honored… Read more →
