Baden's Con-Running Bibliography

See also my "Smofs and Fans" files.

• Worldcons:
  • Webmastering the Worldcon, by Chaz Boston Baden.
  • Filthy Pierre's Guide, 1984, available from Erwin S. Straus
  • Another Fine Nessie, from the Intersection (1995 Worldcon) concom
  • Worldcon Runner's Guide
  • Smofcon 12 Handbook, available from Bruce Pelz
  • So You Want to Buy A Worldcon 1994, by Ross Pavlac, from the ConAdian newszines. It's actually about voting for a bid. (Cf. Bruce Farr's piece on questions to ask a bidcom.)
  • Problems That Can Plague a Worldcon 1995, by Laurie Mann
• Baycon Bible 1992, available here or by email.
• Auntie Linda's Guide to Convention Running 1994 (aka the Orycon Notebooks)
• Daily Newszine Baby Steps 1994-1998, my own zines on the subject.
  • howto-newszine98.txt - Chaz Baden's "Daily Newszine Baby Steps #1-8"
  • Newszine Pegboard info
• Dana Windsor's "Beginners Guide to SF Con Mgmt" 1995 (Wholucination 1)
• How To Run A Dealers Room, by David Medinnus
• The Minicon Moderator Tip Sheet by The Minicon 25 Programming Committee, Sharon Kahn, Co-Chair
• volunteers.94 - the Volunteers sign-up form used at ConAdian, the 1994 Worldcon

I am interested in this stuff being circulated. I haven't finished digesting the Worldcon Runner's Guide; I suspect that my future efforts will be in terms of that. (Addenda for smaller conventions.)

I haven't finished digesting a whole bunch of stuff that Garth Spencer sent me... but the scanned-in text from Filthy Pierre's has been cleaned up (that condensed dot matrix doesn't scan well) and will eventually be ready in a fresh printing and will be on-line. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a Filthy Pierre's 2nd Edition; most of the good material from it has been incorporated into the Worldcon Runner's Guide.

Kim Marks (a local fan) and I have talked about putting together a convention-running guide for our local regional (Loscon); my main emphasis has been getting as much of it on-line as possible.

Additional Resources and Articles

• access.txt - Handicap Access Questionnaire (lifted from Westercon 48)
• electrical.eggs - A note about Electric Eggs Handicapped Access
• contrak - Convention Tracking application (Registration)
• "Worldcon Tickets??"

Coming Soon?

• howto-artshow90.txt - Linda Pilcher's art show notes from Westercon 43 (1990)
• howto-concom84.txt - Filthy Pierre's Convention Committee's Guide

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