Special Guest Seanan McGuire

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Arisia 2011 excitedly announces that Seanan McGuire has graciously
agreed to be a Special Guest of the convention this year.

Seanan McGuire is an American author and filker. She was awarded the
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science
Fiction Convention. This award was announced at Aussiecon 4 on
September 5, 2010. As this award is in the form of a tiara and the
award was presented in Australia, Seanan has blogged that this makes
her "Officially the Princess of the Kingdom of Poison and Flame". In
2010, McGuire's novel FEED (written under the pseudonym Mira Grant)
ranked #74 in an National Public Radio listener poll of the top 100
Thriller novels of all time. McGuire has won three Pegasus Awards and
been nominated for 4 more.

Seanan will be participating in many things at Arisia this year,
including the Breakfast Buffet with Special Guests event on Sunday.
For more information on the buffet, please go to
http://2011.arisia.org/Buffet. For more info on Seanan, please go to
http://www.seananmcguire.com

Breakfast Buffet with cool people!

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Come join us for a Breakfast Buffet with your favorite Guest of Honor or special guest!

The Breakfast Buffet will be Sunday morning (January 16, 2011) at 11AM.

Tickets for the Breakfast Buffet are $35 and now available on our site.

This will be a great opportunity at the convention to sit down and chat with your choice of a fannish "person of interest," such as one of our Guests of Honor. In total, we plan to have 12 tables of 8 persons each; at each table will be a special guest. We are currently working with Programming to identify and schedule the special participants. As soon as that is done, we will be sending out a notification to all those who have already purchased their banquet tickets so they can identify their top four choices of tables. This is definitely a first-come, first-served event, so buy your ticket early if you want to make sure you get your top choice!

We're pleased to announce our list of special guests at the Breakfast.

Michael Anderson – Art/Entertainment
Kelley Armstrong - Writer GOH, Literature
Bob Eggleton – Art, Media
Eric in the Elevator – Fan, Art/Entertainment, Gaming
Shaenon K. Garrity - Webcomics GOH, Art
Seanan McGuire – Music/Filk, Literature
Hildy Silverman – Literature, Fandom
Josh Simpson - Artist GOH
Cecilia Tan - Literature
Catherynne M. Valente - Literature
Rene Walling - Fan GOH
Frank Wu - Art

For a bios of our guests, please visit our Banquet Bios page.