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One thing that can make or break your convention is staffing. If you are trying to do it alone, you are not going to be successful. It takes a lot of people to run even a small convention, and youll need to find those people well before your event. If you are hosting a for-profit convention, you ...

When I wrote my review of Chuck vs. the Couch Lock for Airlock Alpha, I commented that fans of Chucks Buy More colleagues Jeff and Lester would enjoy the larger-than-usual part the boys played in the story. At that time, I had no idea that just a day later, Id get to participate in a conference ...

Originally, I was going to give you information on space allocation and staffing for your own convention, but I realized that the venue negotiation lesson needs to be the whole of this months Fannish Life column. The perfect convention venue would be free, allow you to bring in cheap food and hav ...

Conventions have become a staple of science-fiction fandom. When Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury attended the first WorldCon, there were 200 attendees. Fandom has grown by giant leaps and bounds and now includes genres the original sciencefictionists could only imag ...

My yearning for the far west and San Diego Comic-Con was mitigated somewhat doing my duty to the local science-fiction convention on which I work, Necronomicon, by participating on panels Friday and Saturday in a local anime conventions science-fiction and fantasy track. Anime is not a strong in ...

The suitcases are unpacked, the passport put safely away, and the jetlag is fading. It was not my intention to have a Doctor Who vacation. To tell the truth, I only started to think of it in that way when I began to write this column. As many of Airlock Alpha readers are also Doctor Who, viewers ...