I mentioned in a recent post that I made a connection based on my affiliation with the GenCon Writers’ Symposium. I have neglected to mention this in more detail, and this post hopes to correct that glaring oversight.

The Writers’ Symposium is the writing track that appears at the GenCon Game Fair in Indianapolis every year. The panels are a bit different that typical writer’s conventions, which, probably justifiably, focus more on esoteric subjects than they do the business of writing. After all, many of those conventions are populated by people that have been in the business for a while. Many of them are not, let us say, cons for beginners. GenCon, on the other hand, has a strong fan-based cross-over and is attended by many people who have thought about writing or have begun to write and are interested in learning more. And so, the panels discuss how to write, how to edit, how to sell, and other nuts-and-bolts type subjects on the craft of writing.

This past GenCon in August, my friend Paul Genesse spearheaded an effort to create an ezine meant to promote the symposium and its authors. The first issue came out last month, and you can view it here. The members are, in no particular order, the following:

Jean Rabe – www.jeanrabe.com
Paul Genesse – www.paulgenesse.com
Don Bingle – www.orphyte.com/donaldjbingle
Brad Beaulieu – www.quillings.com
Anton Strout – www.antonstrout.com
John Helfers
Pat Rothfuss – www.patrickrothfuss.com
Luke Johnson – www.lukejohnson.com
Kelly Swails – www.kellyswails.blogspot.com
Tim Waggoner – www.timwaggoner.com
Elizabeth Vaughan – www.eavwrites.com
Marc Tassin – www.marctassin.com
Richard Lee Byers – www.stonehill.org/rlb
Steve Schend – brainstormfront.livejournal.com
Janet Deaver-Pack – www.janetpack.com
Daniel “Doc” Myers – www.medievalcookery.com
Sabrina Klein
Kerrie Hughes
Linda Baker
Chris Pierson

Also, if you’d like to receive future ezines via email, you can send a note to Paul at writerssymposium(at)paulgenesse.com to be added to the list. Please pass this information along to anyone you think might be interested.