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  • Feedback - Thursday
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  • Bring your questions and concerns to a meeting with the Chairman. If there are things we can fix, we would like to know about them in time to fix t...
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  • How to Obtain an Agent
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  • You've written something. You're pleased with it. You're finally ready to shop it out. You think it might get published. How do you search for an ...
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    New WritersIndustry
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  • The WSFS Business Meeting: How Does It Work?
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  • Every member of Lonestarcon 3 is a member of WSFS, the World Science Fiction Society, and is eligible to attend and vote at the Society's Business ...
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    WSFSSIG
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  • The Business Side of Writing
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  • So you've written a novel. What's next? How do you get an agent, get published, market to readers, network, avoid scams... writing was only the be...
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  • Getting the Most Out of Writing Workshops
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  • How do you choose which type of workshops are best for you? How do you make the most of the experience once you've decided to attend and your appl...
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    Industry

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  • Feedback - Friday
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  • Bring your questions and concerns to a meeting with the Chairman. If there are things we can fix, we would like to know about them in time to fix t...
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    Fannish
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  • Graphic Novels You Should be Reading
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  • Need a new series to get hooked on? Maybe you just want to broaden your reading interests. Our panelists will help you find the perfect books. Ther...
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    FinnGraphic NovelsLiterature
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  • The Revolutionary 50s: How SF Changed
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  • Alfred Bester, Philip Jose Farmer, Fred Pohl, C.M. Kornbluth, Ted Sturgeon, Cordwainer Smith and others changed SF in some startling ways in the 19...
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    PopulatedLiterature
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  • The Future of the Small Press
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    Small PressPopulated/iesIndustry
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  • Literary Estates
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  • Do you have a will? No one likes to think about making a will. But one of the components of an estate is intellectual property. Literary and arti...
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    Industry
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  • The Future of Fandom
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  • What would your ideal fannish world of the future be like? What would we need to change to create that better world for us and future generations o...
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    PopulatedFannish
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  • Gender in Manga and Anime
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  • Manga and Anime, as inviting and open as they may seem, are at heart the products of Japan's culture. Despite its technological advancement, Japan ...
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    PopulatedAnime
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  • It's Time to Crowdsource a Firefly Movie
  • San Antonio Convention Center - 102A
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  • Crowdsourcing a cult movie like a Firefly sequel should be a given, right? So if Veronica Mars can raise 5 million, how much could be raised for F...
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    CrowdsourcingFireflyNEEDS PANELISTSMedia

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  • Feedback - Saturday
  • San Antonio Convention Center - 102A
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  • Let us know how we're doing so far. Bring your questions and concerns to a meeting with the Chairman. If there are things w...
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  • Author by Day, Poet by Night
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  • A number of authors are also poets in the fields of fantasy and science fiction. Our panelists discuss current and past masters of the craft and th...
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    FinnPoetryPoetry
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  • Food in Science Fiction and/or Fantasy
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  • From soylent green, to vat-grown protein, to descriptions of lavish meals in Game of Thrones, food is depicted in many forms in science fiction and...
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    PopulatedLiterature
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  • Should SF/F be Covert Commentary on Current Social Issues
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  • The science fiction genre has long provided a useful vehicle for discussing controversial contemporary issues and has frequently offered insightful...
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    PopulatedCulture
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  • Anime versus SF/F Conventions
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  • A look at the differences in the culture between Anime and SF/F conventions. Why do some people think one or the other is scary? Are either really...
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    AnimeConventionsPopulatedAnime
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  • Picturing the South
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    Latin AmericaTrendsDiscoverSpanish
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  • Feedback - Sunday
  • San Antonio Convention Center - 102A
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    Fannish
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  • Keeping Flirtation within Boundaries
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  • You can't rely on body language alone. If you're worried about being inappropriate, we'll give you some tips on how to avoid social gaffes. The wor...
  • Workshop
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  • Body Shaping and Support
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    CostumingCostuming
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  • HEY! KIDS COMICS! The Return of Kid-Friendly Books
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  • Comics spent so many years being dark and spooky, they forgot that it's the kids who grow up and become new fans. There's a wealth of all ages frie...
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    FinnComicsLiteratureMarkets
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  • The Wild, Weird, and Wonderful Westerns of Robert E. Howard
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  • At the end of his life, Robert E. Howard was making good money writing humorous, and also very dark, westerns. In fact, westerns abound all through...
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    FinnPopulatedRobert E. HowardLiterature
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  • Introduction to Eurocons
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    European ConventionsPopulated/spikeFannish
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  • Where have the Ghost Stories Gone?
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  • Ghost stories used to be a major part of literature, from Victorian times though the first half the Twentieth Century. Charles Dickens, M.R. James,...
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  • Feedback - Monday
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  • Comic Book Movies: From the Page to the Screen
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  • There have been more comic book movies in the past decade than in the entire 20th century combined. How do they hold up? What are the best and the ...
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    Media
    FinnComicsAdaptationsAdaptationsMedia
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  • Dyeing and Dye Techniques
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  • "An Age Undreamed Of...": World Building with Robert E. Howard
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  • Critics have argued that Howard threw Conan's Hyborean Age together with "careless haste." In fact, Howard was a meticulous world-builder. And not ...
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