It's that time of year again -- time to register for Context before the registration rate jumps from $35 to $45 on the 15th next week.

What's Context? It's a Columbus, Ohio convention for people who read and write science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It'll be taking place September 28-30.

Tim Powers is the main Guest of Honor. Other guests and attendees include Mike Resnick, Michael A. Arnzen, Juanita Coulson, Walter Hunt, Diana Botsford, Raven Bower, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tobias Buckell, Rae Carson, Matthew Cook, Dave Creek, Linda J. Dunn, Timons Esaias, Fran Friel, Geoffrey Girard, Anne Harris, Jim C. Hines, Erin Hoffman, Debra Kemp, Chun Lee, Sandy Lender, Maureen McHugh, Paul Melko, Heidi Ruby Miller, Jason Jack Miller, Steve Nagy, Robert Pyatt, James Daniel Ross, Tim Waggoner, D. Harlan Wilson, and more to come.

Matt Cook sold his novel Blood Magic after he pitched it to the editor at the convention last year.

The convention has lots of panels of interest to writers; some of what they've got scheduled this year includes:

• Writing for Interactive Media
  
• Electronic Publishing, Print-On-Demand, and the Death of the Book
  
• Writing an ADR Script
  
• Fiction readings
  
• Poetry readings
  
• Military Tactics in SF
  
• How Traveling and Travel Writing Affects Our Fiction
  
• How to Kill Off a Character
  
• A Day In The Life Of An Editor
  
• Writing in Someone Else's World
  
• The Dark Ascent: Contemporary Horror
  
• The "Balderdash"-based Out of Context

They also have 3-hour writing workshops that require preregistration and an extra $15:

Michael A. Arnzen: Writing SF/F/H Poetry
(Friday, September 28th, 7-10 pm)

Join award-winning poet and writing professor Mike Arnzen as he leads this workshop on crafting poetry for science fiction, fantasy, and horror markets. ( Read more... )

Diana Botsford: The Art and Business of Adaptation for Visual Media
(Sunday, September 30th, 9am-noon)

This workshop will also benefit those who are plotting novels or trying to improve the plots of their novels as they rewrite them. It is a practical exploration of how to adapt anything (novel, short story, comic, article, or idea) into a screenplay. ( Read more... )


For more information and to register, visit:

http://www.contextsf.org/