Life, The Universe, and Everything 2020! · 8:50pm Jan 8th, 2020
I’ve been waiting to make this post for months now, readers! But with the new year upon us, it’s finally time. Life, The Universe, and Everything 2020 is almost upon us, with a little over a month to go!
Some of you readers are cheering quietly (or perhaps loudly) while mentally double-checking your hotel reservation for next month, but some of you, I’m sure, I are looking at this post and thinking “Isn’t that a Douglas Adams book?” while wondering what I mean about next month. So before we go any further, let me clear that up.
First, yes, it is the title of one of Douglas Adams’ books. Life, the Universe, and Everything was the third book in his Hitchhiker series and released in 1982. So you’re not wrong there. However, that is the LtUE with a lowercase “t” on the “the.” The uppercase variant?
Why, it’s Life, The Universe, and Everything, the premier Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing Convention! With an uppercase “T.” But yes, it is a reference.
“All right,” some of you might say. “So it’s another Sci-Fi/Fantasy con. So?” To which I’d reply “No, not exactly.”
See, LTUE is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy writing con. While other conventions are about getting together just to have fun dressing up and meeting authors and creators, LTUE is different. LTUE is about creation. Where other Sci-Fi/Fantasy cons will have panels where you can meet your favorite author and ask questions about your favorite series or listen to them talk about their favorite moments from the book, LTUE has panels where you come to hear your favorite authors talk about the art of writing.
That’s right. Hundreds of authors on hundreds of panels, talking about writing. How to write. Pitfalls. Elements you may not have considered. Topics for days.
That’s right, LTUE is a convention for writers who want to learn more about writing. With panels given by some of the biggest names in the industry. While also having signings, art shows, game rooms, and all the fun stuff you’d expect from a regular con.
In other words, if you’re a writer of any level interested in Sci-Fi and Fantasy, LTUE is the con to go to. For learning, for networking, for even just having fun chatting with favorite authors or new ones! It’s the con.
Okay, so that’s what LTUE is. Oh, and if you’re a student (college or k-12), tickets are … around $5. For three days of con awesome.
In other words, what are you waiting for? The website is here, reserve your ticket! And while you’re at it, take a look at their guestlist and schedule to start planning what panels you’d like to attend!
While you’re at it, you may notice a familiar name on the Guestlist and attached to a number of panels! Which brings me to the second reason for today’s post: Letting you all know that yes, I will be at LTUE this year, paneling once more! And signing, and doing a reading …
It’s going to be a big year for me this LTUE. A very big year. I’m pumped.
But it means that, in addition to letting you all know that LTUE is approaching (February 13th-15th), I also get to have the wonderful pleasure this year of putting up my LTUE panel schedule, letting you all know where you can find me over the course of the con! So, without further ado, a list of all the LTUE appearances I’ll be making this year! I’ll repost this as we get closer to the date of the actual con, but for now: Get ready and excited! It’s coming!
Why are all these things located in places so far away I have to schedule a vacation to get to them? Ugh... C'mon, South. There aren't many things you let me down on, but a lack of proper conventions for me to go to without putting my life on hold is definitely one of them.
It sounds great, but I haven't got the money for it. It would cost $1000 just for the flight and hotel.
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If you just want the content, the LTUE YouTube channel is uploading a video a day until LTUE 2020!
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTUEvids/videos
And I would know because I edited all of them
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Awesome! Although I also want all the writer friends and enemies. Maybe even a nemesis or two.
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LTUE is definitely one of those cons worth attending if you can. Maybe as one of those "Well, if I go to a con this year" things, since it is very regular each year.
However as 5182908 has pointed out, they're doing a really good job of putting panels up online to watch, so if nothing else there's a lot of listening material that starts hitting the web once it's over to crunch through! Not quite the same as going, but the knowledge is all there to hear, and that's certainly great!
If either of you two ever make it, though, keep an eye out! Odds are I'll be around lol.