SCHEDULE
(subject to change)

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH

3 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Registration

5:00 p.m.: original Dresden Files pilot - Screening & discussion

7 p.m.: Dinner with The Butchers $ (attendance limited)

10pm: Fandom Social

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6TH

9:00 a.m.
Set-up and Registration
Silent Charity Auction Opens*
Author Tables

10:00 a.m. Welcome Address

10:15 a.m. Perception is Everything: Torchwood by Flash Card

10:45 a.m. Fanthropology

11:30 a.m. My Turn - Online Gaming

12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch Break

12:20 Dresden Pilot Screening

1:30 p.m. Jim Butcher Q & A

2:30 p.m. My Anti-hero! Why Fandom Loves the Bad Boys

3:10 p.m. Tickling the Underbelly: the use of alleys on Buffy and Angel

Potty Break

4 p.m.: Whatever You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Transitioning from Fan Fiction to Pro Fiction

4:35 p.m.: Shannon Butcher Q&A

5:00 p.m.
Author signings:
Jim Butcher (photos allowed)
Shannon Butcher
Jamie Craig
Philippa Grey-Gerou
Auction closes, winners announced

8 p.m. Shindig at MacAnally’s: Costume party with door prizes

10pm: Children of the Night: Erotica in the 21st century

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7TH

10 a.m.: Writer's Breakfast Roundtable $

(items marked with $ are not included in the admission price)

Special Guests:

Jim Butcher is a New York Times Best Selling author. His contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files, was recently brought to television for a short-lived series on the SciFi cable network. He also writes the Codex Alera series.

After spending too many years as an Industrial Engineer, Shannon Butcher learned to write from her husband, bestselling author Jim Butcher. Her first novel, No Regrets, was released on February of 2007. It will be followed by No Control in early 2008.

*2007's charity was First Book - a non-profit organization that provides books for children in areas where resources are limited.

They provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs.

Founded in 1992, First Book's model is national in scope and local in impact. In their first year, First Book distributed approximately 12,000 books in three communities. Since that time, First Book has distributed more than 50 million books to children in over 1300 communities around the country.