Geysercon – Rotorua, Queen’s birthday weekend

Sharon Manssen

Do you love science fiction and fantasy?

Are you a sci-fi or fantasy writer?

Do you teach English?

Or are you a fan of sci-fi and fantasy games and movies?

As the website says: Come to GeyserCon, New Zealand’s 40th National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention.

There will be heaps going on, from writing workshops by international guest authors for youth of all ages, an all-weekend Book Expo, events with international cosplay guests, workshops on writing fight scenes, fantasy mapping, cover design, the nuts and bolts of writing and editing, using mythology, marketing your books, fantasy makeup, zines, cosplay, filking, making your own ray gun, board gaming, a radio play and finding out the latest news from Weta and loads more!

I will certainly be there (I’ve been invited to be on one of the panels). I hope I see you there too!

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Published by Sharon Manssen

A fantasy fan since being read 'The Hobbit' by her father at the fireside at the age of six, she has been an avid bookworm her entire life. When the idea for her current trilogy popped into her head, there was never any doubt that it would be in the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, real life gets in the way, and writing has to fit around her full-time job at a global engineering consultancy and family life (husband and two young adult children). It took ten years to pen her first book, Medar, which was a finalist for the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2015 and was published in 2017. Her second book, Tyrelia was nominated in the Young Adult Fiction category in the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Her third book, Golden City, is due out in 2021.

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