Latest News: Anne Gracie! Discount Room Rates!
Some important news: Rydges South Brisbane have agreed to offer a special rate $229 a night on Superior Twin share rooms for GenreCon Attendees during the conference. Details on the special rate are included at the end of this update, but there’s been a steady stream of questions about accommodation of late, so we wanted to make sure the news got out. That said, without further ado… GENRECON 2013 WELCOMES ANNE GRACIE We’re also very pleased to announce that romance author Anne Gracie will be a guest at this year’s...
read moreWelcome Kate Cuthbert and a Registration Update
It’s been two weeks since GenreCon 2013 opened for registration and the response from Australia’s genre writers has been…well, fantastic. Every time we check in on the conversation taking place on the #GCoz twitter tag or add another name to the list of attending attending members, we get a little bit more excited about kicking things off on October 11th. GENRECON 2013 WELCOMES KATE CUTHBERT We’re pleased to welcome our third GenreCon guest this week - Escape Publishing’s Kate Cuthbert. Kate Cuthbert has...
read moreGenreCon 2013 is Go!
For those of you who missed last year’s show, here’s the official pitch: the AWM GenreCon is a three-day conference for Australian writers and professionals working within the fields of romance, mystery, science fiction, crime, fantasy, horror, thrillers, and more. One part party, one part celebration, one part professional development – GenreCon is the place to be if you’re an aspiring or established writer with a penchant for the types of fiction that get relegated to their own corner of the bookstore. This...
read more2013 Registration Opens Tuesday, February 5th
We’ll be announcing our first round of guests and opening online registration for the 2013 GenreCon will go live on Tuesday, February 5th, at 4:00 PM Brisbane time. Once again we’ll be offering the special, early-bird rate of $190 for a weekend pass to the first 50 registrations, after which registration will rise to the standard attendee rates.
read moreSave the Date: October 11-13, 2013
It was around this time in 2011 that the GenreCon team got together and said, “wouldn’t it be great to have a national conference for genre writers?” and started laying plans for the inaugural event. This year we don’t have to ask that question – the enthusiastic response we got from Australian genre writers, editors, agents, and publishers confirmed that GenreCon will be back in 2013. If you’re interested in coming along you’ll want to save the date from 11-13 October, 2013. We’ll be making...
read moreAuthor Sites Wanted For Sarah Wendell’s Workshop
Two quick updates for you this morning: Wanted: Author Sites Sarah Wendell is looking for two or three author websites she can critique and use as examples in her AUTHOR PLATFORM 101 workshop. If you’re heading to Sarah’s workshop on Sunday, November 4th, and interested in volunteering your site then post your name and your website address in the comments of this post. We’ll pass the details of the first three volunteers on to Sarah for use in her workshop. Want 5 Minutes with an Editor or Agent? The GenreCon Pitching...
read moreThe GenreCon Program is Live
We’re excited by this one, so we’re going to say it loud: The GenreCon Program is live! It’s going to be a big weekend – six industry workshops, thirteen discussion panels, a series of feature events that includes presentations by some of our special guests, the Opening Night Cocktail Reception, and the Pistols and Parasols Banquet. We’re covering everything from creative practice to online platform, to researching your fiction and building your career. More importantly, the program will feature over fifty...
read moreProgram Sneak Peek
The full GenreCon program will be released next week, but since we know a lot of you are eager to see what’s in store, we figured we’d offer you a sneak peek of what’s going to be happening over the November weekend. What have we got coming up? Well, it’s a combination of three things: 1) Presentations by Industry Specialists There’s a series of presentations and discussions scheduled throughout GenreCon, including the following: Ginger Clark: THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE AGENT What is the role of the agent in the...
read moreIndustry Guests, Advertising, and Community Partners Wanted
Welcome Joel Naoum (Momentum Books) GenreCon is proud to announce the first of this year’s industry guests: Joel Naoum from Momentum Books. Joel is a Sydney-based book publisher, editor, blogger and writer. He is running Pan Macmillan Australia’s new digital-only imprint Momentum and recently completed a three-month stint in London for the Unwin Fellowship researching digital publishing experimentation. He is passionate about the possibilities that social media and digital publishing opens up for authors, publishers, booksellers and...
read moreA Call for Program Participants & Booking Update for Rydges
Wanted, Programming Participants We’ve got a lot of great guests coming to GenreCon (and a few more to be announced over the course of August), but we’re also interested in hearing from writers, publishers, and editors who may be interested in participating . While we’re already in the process of putting together the conference program, it’s not to late to volunteer if you’re planning on attending. If you’ve already volunteered – Thank You! We’ve been blown away by the response to GenreCon thus...
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