ConQuesT Memories will rule the night

Change is coming to KaCSFFS metings.

What: Monthly KaCSFFS Meeting

Where: The Writers Place

3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111

When: Saturday, May 21, 2016

6:00 Meeting Begins!

6:30 Latest time the meeting will end. 

Program begins!

Meeting Theme: ConQuesT Memories

Food Theme: Finger-Food Favorites! 

Games and Special Interest Groups: See the KAXFEN list for more details.

New meeting format gets its maiden voyage!

2002 ConQuesT: Next year's
Con Chairs take over.

We announced in April that this year we'll try a new way to conduct the meetings we hope will make them lots more fun. We start that new format this month: A short meeting (only if needed) between 6 and 6:30--then we'll launch right into the program.

ConQuesT Memories 

ConSuite balcony banner from 1987.

We owe a huge thank-you to longtime member and photography enthusiast Tracy Majkol, for putting together a slideshow of photos from past ConQuesT conventions. Considering that this year we're about to hold ConQuesT Prime (#47), we have a few ConQuesTs to remember! 

ConQuesT 31: Better not to ask?

Come prepared to share some of your favorite stories about ConQuesTs past--then let's all prepare to work hard this coming Memorial Day, and make ConQuesT 47 another great convention to remember!

Special Interest Groups and Games

This is an almost-first try with a new idea. If you like the idea of forming special interest groups or playing board/tabletop games during the freeform parts of the meetings, please come prepared to participate!

IMAGES: The photo of the Writers Place is pulled from a 2010 post, which borrowed it from the blog "A Skewed Perspective." The photos from ConQuesTs past were gleaned from Keith Stokes' wonderful Midamerican Fan Photo Archive. Many, MANY thanks! (pool noodles; balcony banner; 2001 cow monolith). 

NEW KaCSFFS Writers News

Announcing a NEW Regular Feature!

Bryan Thomas Schmidt will edit the new feature.

ATTENTION WRITERS!  Our own Bryan Thomas Schmidt has agreed to create a new monthly feature for the KaCSFFS Blog—but he can’t do it without you! If you read this blog, you're eligible to submit information.

He’s looking for announcements about:

·      Something soon to be published

·      Something you just sold to a publication or publisher

·      E-publications of your work

·      Readings you’re scheduled to do

·      Conventions you’re attending

·      Book-signings

·      Other similar events

Appearing somewhere?  Signing books?  Tell us!

Guidelines for Submitting an Item:

·      DEADLINE: 2^nd Monday of the month it will be published

·      Submit to bryan@bryanthomasschmidt.net

·      Use the subject line “KaCSFFS Writer News”

·      Include URLs for your website, blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed, Google Plus page, etc., and/or your publisher’s website, or (for author appearances) that of the convention, bookstore or other venue.

·      If you can send a bio photo or cover art, please send as a JPEG (72ppi, no larger than 500 pixels in either direction.

·      Be aware your content may be edited for style or length.

Schmidt's The Returning was published in 2013.

Who is Bryan Thomas Schmidt?

Here’s a little bit about your columnist (from his website’s bio):

Bryan Thomas Schmidt is an author and editor of adult and children’s speculative fiction including the novels The Worker Prince and The Returning, and the children’s books 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes For Kids (ebook only) and Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter- Land Of Legends. His debut novel, The Worker Prince (2011) received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club’s Year’s Best Science Fiction Releases for 2011. His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies and online. He edited the anthologies Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 (Flying Pen Press, 2012), Beyond The Sun (Fairwood, July 2013), and Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age  (Every Day Publishing, November 2013) and is working on Shattered Shields with co-editor Jennifer Brozek (Baen, 2014). He also hosts #sffwrtcht (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Chat) Wednesdays at 9 pm ET on Twitter and can be found via Twitter as @BryanThomasS, on his website atwww.bryanthomasschmidt.net or Facebook.

IMAGE CREDIT: The photo of Bryan Thomas Schmidt is from his website's bio page.  The image of Robin W. Bailey signing books at ConQuesT 42 (2011) is by Keith Stokes, courtesy of Stokes' Midamerican Fan website. The cover image for The Returning is from Bryan's page about this book, released in 2013.