ConCarolinas 2008

I am sorry to announce that Gary Astleford of WotC has cancelled his appearance at ConCarolinas. That means his Star Wars Saga edition game will be cancelled and those who prereg'ed will be notified. We're sorry for the inconvenience. It was a situation out of Gary's control. He regrets sincerely having to cancel this close to the con and hopes that he can attend next year. Ron

CC on 2008-05-08

First the bad news - Denise Crosby was forced to cancel her appearance at ConCarolinas 2008 because of a professional conflict. As we all know, professional obligations come before conventions like us so we understand her situation. She sincerely regrets being unable to appear. However, we are working with her agent to have her next year.

Now the good news. We have replaced her with a fine actress - Suzie Plakson. Suzie Plakson is the only actress to appear as four different aliens in three different Star Trek series. She played the Vulcan Lt. Selar and Klingon K'Ehleyr in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a female Q in Star Trek: Voyager, and Tarah, the first female Andorian Star Trek: Enterprise.

We have a preliminary schedule up on the site. It is still preliminary and has not gone through our editor. There still may be some minor changes in the final schedule but this is very close to what the final one will be.

CC on 2008-05-05

We are working with Kosmic Designs (http://kozmicdesigns.com/) to get a preorder for our new T-shirts.  Please stay tuned to our web site for more information this week.

These T-shirts will have our new winged-panther by R Snare (http://ministan.deviantart.com/)  on the front and on the back it will have a concert style list of our guests.  If you saw the StellarCon T-shirts this past year, they will be like that.

We'll have an image of the shirt art soon.

CC

CC on 2008-05-05

Due to an unforeseen professional conflict - a play in NY - Denise Crosby is unable to attend this year's ConCarolinas. However, we are working on an agreement to book her next year.

We may also have a replacement for her lined up, so please stayed tuned.

CC

CC on 2008-05-01

Tina McSwain, founder and president of the Charlotte Area Paranormal Society (CAPS), a professional paranormal research and ghost hunting society, has agreed to join us at our con to talk of her experiences in our paranormal panels.

Here is her bio....

Tina McSwain

Founder & President of CAPS - Charlotte Area Paranormal Society

Tina serves as Lead Investigator and Historian of our group. She is a native Charlottean, and has been interested in the paranormal since reading Nancy Roberts ghost story books of the 1960's/1970's. Since childhood, she was somehow able to "just know" that a future event was about to happen and continued to become sensitive to the world around her. Her catalyst for studying the paranormal was her first encounter with a full blown apparition of a friend's grandmother. The ghost walked toward Tina, smiled, waved, and then turned around and disappeared. Soon after, Tina found and joined a number of Paranormal and Ghost Hunting groups over the years, serving in varying capacities, and continuing to learn. Wanting a more professional and research oriented group, Tina formed CAPS - Charlotte Area Paranormal Society in the Fall of 2005. Under her direction and leadership, CAPS continues to search out the unknown.

CC on 2008-04-22

The Founder of the Charlotte Zombie Walk, the illustrious Badger, will be at ConCarolinas, talking up all things zombie.

We hope that we can organize a mini-zombie walk in the con, with people willing to be made up like zombies. We're working on getting an artist, forming a free zombie make up clinic and give everyone willing a chance to be a zombie.

Join us in our own zombie walk!.

CC on 2008-04-17

From Carol, Queen of Programming: Last year, I was approached by some fan fiction writers asking for a fan fiction panel. I can put one on the schedule for this year, but only if I have three fan fiction writers to sit on the panel and moderate.

Any takers?

CC on 2008-04-17

We are sorry to announce the following guest are unable to attend:

Stephen Antczak
Gary A. Braunbeck
CJ Henderson
Anthony Karnowski
Lucy A. Snyder
Kristy Tallman

cc on 2008-04-08

From Janet, the queen of our dealer room:

Are you a budding artist looking for a break? or a local seasoned professional? We are currently taking applications for our artist’s alley in the dealer’s room. We hope we can build upon this to have a full fledge art show if not next year, by the 2010 DSC. We need help from the art community to do so.

Please contact me at dealers@concarolinas.org for an application and table rates. We are only setting aside a limited number of tables for this cause so let us know pretty quickly. Also, if you are a good artist, and a pretty good face painter, this may a great opportunity to earn some extra money as well as selling your artwork. We are a family oriented con and we’ll have alot of young people there. What am I talking about, the old people will want stuff painted on thier face as well, who are we fooling? Janet

CC on 2008-04-07

Our Writer Guest of Honor has been nominated for yet another Hugo! He's nominated in the Short Story category for his story "Distant Replay", published in the April/May 2007 issue of Asimov's.

ConCom on 2008-04-03

ConCarolinas is proud to welcome Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Gary Jones (Stargate SG-1) to the Carolinas.

ConCom on 2008-04-01

We are proud to announce that ConCarolinas was chosen to host Deep South Con in 2010. The fine people of the Southern Fandom Confederation unanimously chose us as their home for 2010. So help us celebrate southern fandom as 2010 roles around.

Thanks for everyone's support.

Ron McClung
Deep South Con Bid Director

Ron on 2008-03-16

Due to shooting schedule with his new role on Stargate: Atlantis, Robert Picardo is unable to attend our convention. He sends his deepest regrets for cancelling and hopes to be able to be our guest in future cons.

Guest services is endeavoring hard to find a replacement with the same quality and appeal. Stay tuned.

ConCom on 2008-03-11

The NC Rowan County Anime group has some great news! We have permission from Bandai to show "Lucky Star". "Lucky Star" will not be officially released until May, which means that our showing will be the public premier of this anime in the US.

Ron on 2008-03-07

We have updated our web site considerably, and added a few new features. Note the Guest/Feature of the Day at the bottom of our main page.

We have already started to add games to our schedule. See our gaming page and our schedule brought to you by the OGRe System.

Also, big news for Robert Picardo and Stargate: Atlantis. Amanda Tapping (Col. Carter) is leaving SG:A and now has her own show now - Sanctuary. Robert Picardo is taking her place.

http://syfyportal.com/news424692.html

We're still hard at work and getting ready for StellarCon. Many of us will be there, and we're hosting a party to celebrate our DSC bid for 2010. Hope to see you there.

Ron on 2008-02-15

New guests include...

Stephen Antczak
Gary A. Braunbeck
Jeremy Lewis
Lucy A. Snyder

as well as Charlotte's own Midnight Muses -
Crymsyn R. Hart
Dahlia Rose
Sabrina Luna

Ron on 2007-12-18

ConCarolinas is proud to welcome Robert Picardo to our Con as our Media Guest of honor. Please join us here in Charlotte May 30 - June 1, 2008 to welcome Robert to the Carolinas.

Ron on 2007-11-25

We are proud to announce that the band, Boogie Knights, will be returning as our special music guest. Help us welcome them back to Charlotte

Ron on 2007-09-11

See out DSC bid page here..

ConCarolinas 2010 - DeepSouthCon 48

Ron on 2007-08-22

We have a new phone number...

803-883-0858

Ron on 2007-08-09

Ron on 2007-08-09

Check it out... ConCarolinas on the Bodie Olmos Fan Page Ron

Ron on 2007-06-22

ConCarolinas is proud to announce that we have finalized an agreement to have Mike Resnick as our 2008 Guest of Honor. He is a popular and prolific science fiction author, winner of 5 Hugo Awards plus other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia and Poland, and currently stands first on the Locus list of all-time award winners, living or dead, for short fiction, and 4th on the Locus list of science fiction's all-time top award winners in all fiction categories.

His works include the Birthright Universe series of books, many short story collections and editor for several anthologies.

See his wiki here...

and his web site here... Help us welcome him to the Carolinas. Ron

Ron on 2007-06-21

So far we have added 3 new guests for 2008...

Gail Martin, author of The Chronicles of The Necromancer fantasy adventure series. Book One: The Summoner (2007), Book Two: The Blood King (January 2008) and Book Three: The Dark Lady's Chosen (Tentative title, no date yet) are Martin’s debut fantasy novels.

Kim Harrison (special guest), author of DEAD WITCH WALKING, FIST FULL OF CHARMS, FOR A FEW DEMONS MORE, etc. I believe a few of these hit the NYT Bestseller lists. Anyway, she is very much nationally known.

And Faith Hunter, author of BLOODRING, SERAPHS, and HOST (Host out in November this year). Faith and I are collaborating on an rpg of her novels (to be called ROGUE MAGE: ROLEPLAYING IN THE WORLD OF FAITH HUNTER) at the moment. That book will be out by the con, too.

Ron on 2007-06-20

ConCarolinas (as of 2008) will be adopting a new policy for fan tables. Because space is at a premium and the hotel charges us for the tables, we will be charging a fee to any fan group that wishes to have a table in our halls. Fee: 1 Table - $10 (one free badges comes with the table) Bring your own table - Free (still get one free badge) Please contact the dealer director to reserve your slot. We only have about 20 spaces for fan tables and they fill up fast.

Ron on 2007-06-06