Recollections from the 2014 World Horror Convention
by Shawn Chesser
This year I was blessed
to be able to attend the WHC held in my hometown as an independent author and
share a table with Mark Tufo and John O'Brien as well as meet the infectiously
funny Armand Rosamilia, three fellas whose work mine shares space with in the
Epic Apocalypse Boxed set.
While I didn't sit on a
panel at the con, or sign many books, or get to see Joe McKinney win his second
Bram Stoker award, I was lucky enough to meet a couple of readers who were
visiting from Medford and Seattle - one of the high points of the con for me.
During the downtime
between a slow trickle of family and visitors to our table (one who even drove
all the way from Wyoming to meet Tufo) I got to know my co-collaborators pretty
well. A little bs’ing and a couple of meals together is all it took for me to
learn that these guys are as good of people in person as they are via social
media.
Part of Saturday was
spent listening to the "Life after the Walking Dead: Zombie fiction today”
panel featuring Brian Keene, Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney, Dana Fredsti, John
Skipp, Steve Rasnic Tem, and S.G. Browne. I was very happy to hear them share
rather passionately their views that the genre in which I write, though
burgeoning at the seams with new offerings, is not going away anytime soon.
That talk, more than the others, is something I'll never forget - no matter
what direction my relatively new career takes.
And lastly, though it
was the first thing I did upon arriving at the con, breaking bread with Joe
McKinney, Mark Tufo, John O'Brien, Weston Ochse, Yvonne Navarro, Leslie S Klinger
and Rose Blackthorn, all awesome writers, was the icing on my WHC cake.
I hope to do it all over
again next year in Atlanta ... minus the dragging books around with me part, of
course.
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