Thursday night signing

Dark Delicacies will host a mass signing on Thursday night before the weekend (June 11th). If you're an author and would like to participate, please drop a line to them at darkdel@darkdel.com . Thanks!

Ticket price increase schedule

Here's the schedule of ticket price increases for the Stoker Weekend:

• On March 1, full tickets will go up to $120, and banquet only/no banquet tickets will go to $75
• On May 1, full tickets (if left) will go to $130, and banquet only/no banquet tickets will go to $80
• All banquet ticket sales will end as of June 1
• Non-banquet tickets may or may not be available at the door

Remember, ticket sales are strictly limited to 250, so get yours now!

Lifetime Achievement Award winners announced

We're absolutely thrilled to announce that this year's winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award are F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Both of these amazing recipients have indicated an interest in attending the Stoker weekend, so mark your calendars! And congrats to Paul and Quinn.

Publish Post

We've just gone live with the website for the weekend, and you can get to it via either of these addresses:

http://www.stokers2009.com
http://www.stokers2009.org

The website is fully functional - we can accept Paypal ticket orders, and all information
on reserving hotel rooms is in place.

We've also established a Yahoo group as another way to stay up-t0-the-minute:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stokers2009/

Remember, we're cutting off ticket sales on this at 250, so don't delay!

Planning, planning, planning

Even though the Stoker Weekend is still about 7 months away, there's been a lot of activity behind the scenes. So far, we've found four Guests of Honor, worked out a business plan, arranged most of what we need with the hotel, worked out a tentative strategy for the kinds of activities we want to have through the weekend, and much more.

It's a blast to work on this, and we hope you'll reserve the weekend to attend.

This will be the official blog for the 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend, to be held June 12-14 in Burbank, California. Here the co-organizers Lisa Morton and John R. Little will announce new guests, events, and updates to the website as they happen. Sign up for an RSS feed or bookmark the blog now so you don't miss any of the news as it happens!