CopperCon would like to welcome our
Guest of Honor: Carrie Vaughn
She is the bestselling author of a series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty, as well as numerous short stories in various anthologies and magazines. She's also a contributor to the Wild Cards series edited by George R. R. Martin. One of her short stories, “Amaryllis,” was nominated for a Hugo in 2011. She’s written several other novels: “After the Golden Age” and the young-adult novel “Steel” were released this year. In 1998, Carrie attended the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and she has a master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She currently lives in Colorado.
Fan Guest
M.R. "Hilde" Hildebrand
M. R. Hildebrand, usually known as "Hilde", has been active in many areas of fandom since 1972, when she attended her first convention, the WorldCon in Los Angeles.
She joined the local Phoenix SF club and gained a reputation for her wide knowledge of science fiction & fantasy books. She frequently hosted the "Friday Night Inevitables", the weekly meeting/parties held by Phoenix fandom in those early years. She joined other Phoenix fans in group trips to conventions in other cities, and when Phoenix began its own conventions in 1975 (with the first LepreCon), she provided support and suggestions.
Hilde was the chairman for two conventions, the 1978 Leprecon and the 1982 CopperCon. She also coordinated the Women's Programming branch of the 1978 WorldCon and ran the Dealer's Room at the 1992 Westercon. During the 1980s, with her husband Bruce Arthurs, she organized and ran Staff Lounges and Gofer Holes at numerous local conventions and conventions elsewhere, including the 1984 Los Angeles Worldcon and 1985 NASFIC in Austin, Texas. Her Staff Lounges established a tradition of providing hearty and nutritious food for convention volunteers and staff.
Somewhere in all that, she wrote and sold a short story, "Dance of the Healer" to Sword & Sorceress V, Marion Zimmer Bradley's fantasy anthology series, and wrote numerous book reviews for early issues of Connotations.
In 1985, she began Bellerophon's Emporium, a small business that sold books, jewelry and music at conventions and other events for nearly twenty years before going dormant due to health problems. (Have I mentioned she did all this, despite having severe rheumatoid arthritis since the 1960s, with multiple surgeries and joint replacements?)
M.R. Hildebrand. Awesome.
-- Bruce Arthurs
Local Guest Author
Janni Lee Simner
Janni Lee Simner was born aboard a pirate ship, but as soon as she came of age booked passage with a caravan bound for the Sahara, and spent the next decade as a seeker of lost cities, hidden tombs, and ancient artifacts. While hiding from assassins in the lost Library of Alexandria, however, she discovered she really preferred telling stories, and so she settled down in the Sonoran desert to write, interrupted only by the occasional map-bearing stranger or man-eating Gila monster. She's since published three young adult fantasy novels. Bones of Faerie and Faerie Winter are set after the war between the human and faerie realms has destroyed the world, leaving behind a world filled with deadly magic: trees that seek human blood, glowing stones that burn with cold fire, and forests whose shadows can swallow a person whole. Thief Eyes is a contemporary fantasy based on the Icelandic sagas and dubbed "a captivating modern odyssey" by Publishers Weekly. Janni has also published four books for younger readers and more than 30 short stories, most recently one in the Welcome to Bordertown anthology. She lives in Tucson, where she's currently working on a third Faerie book.
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