{"id":935,"date":"2015-05-18T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:36:09","slug":"conquest-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/05\/18\/conquest-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquest Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that everything is up to date in Kansas City, so I am heading that way to check it out for myself.  Next weekend I will be Editor Guest of Honor at Conquest, KC&#8217;s long-running regional con, and one of my very favorites.  I went to my first KC con in 1972 (where I finally met Howard Waldrop, with whom I&#8217;d been exchanging letters since 1963), and have been coming back when I can ever since.  The 1976 worldcon in KC &#8212; MidAmericon &#8212; still ranks as the best worldcon of all time, in my not so humble opinion.  Even if I did lose two Hugos there.<\/p>\n<p>So if any of you are in Kansas or Missouri or within driving distance, do come join us.  You can check out the basics on the con here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conquestkc.org\/\">http:\/\/www.conquestkc.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I should underline the fact that I am the <i><b>Editor<\/b><\/i> GOH at Conquest (Brandon Sanderson is the Author Guest of Honor).  I&#8217;ve been editing books just as long as I&#8217;ve been writing them (the first book I ever published was one I&#8217;d edited, not one I&#8217;d written), and to date I&#8217;ve been editor or co-editor on thirty-eight anthologies, with number thirty-nine on the way.  Yet this will be be the first time that any con has ever honored me for my editorial work.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I will be reading a chapter from THE WINDS OF WINTER there, and yes, I&#8217;ll talk about ICE AND FIRE and my other writing&#8230; but the emphasis at Conquest will be on my editing, especially the WILD CARDS series, and one of my two scheduled autograph sessions will be limited to the anthologies I&#8217;ve edited.  Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, I expect to find some burnt ends as well&#8230; dragon-charred, no doubt&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that everything is up to date in Kansas City, so I am heading that way to check it out for myself. Next weekend I will be Editor Guest of Honor at Conquest, KC&#8217;s long-running regional con, and one of my very favorites. I went to my first KC con in 1972 (where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,30,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}