First WFCs

My First WFC by Jessica Day George

“I used to dream about Cathy . . . dipped in chocolate . . .” At the 2004 World Fantasy Convention in Tempe, Arizona, I heard those words...

My First WFC by Steve Rasnic Tem

My first World Fantasy Convention was in 1981. That was number seven, held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley California. It was my third...

My First World Fantasy Convention by Paul Genesse

Why are there a hundred people in line to get signatures from that guy? Who is he? Neil Gaiman you say? I haven’t heard anything about...

My First WFC by Carol Berg

When my first novel, Transformation, was published in August 2000 and I discovered that the sky did not open and reveal a whole new...

My First WFC by Ginny Smith

My first World Fantasy Convention was way back in 1996. I was an aspiring writer with a bunch of short stories and stack of rejection...

An Unusual First WFC by L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Unlike most of today’s fantasy writers, I didn’t attend any conventions until more than ten years after my first story was published. My...