I'm pleased to announce the following as Guests of Honor for Boskone 50 (February 15-17, 2013 at the Boston Westin Waterfront Hotel):

(Author) Guest of Honor - Vernor Vinge
Official Artist - Lisa Snellings
Special Guest - John Hertz
Featured Filker - Heather Dale

Hotel reservations should be open shortly once we work out some glitches in the reservation system.

-Rick Kovalcik (Chair, Boskone 50)

I've yet to get an email of my pics from the photo booth, and I had been hoping to use one online for an interview I did with the woman I posed with. Does anyone know when they're going to be mailed out? Thanks!

Now through March 25th, MCFI is running a book drive in support of the Science Fiction Outreach Project (SFOP). NESFA is kindly letting us collect donated books at the NESFA Clubhouse. (I've promised they'll go away promptly!)

Details and related 4-part harmony on the NESFA LiveJournal.

I'm curious to see if we are getting larger than recent years.

The Helmuth newsletters are now online: http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/whatsnew.html

Thanks *very* much to the ~30 people who came to the Jewish service to mark the end of the Sabbath and enable me (and three other attendees) to say kaddish. Thanks especially to the Aronoff and Lennhoff families who provided support and supplies. Shavua tov!

I have a 13-year-old son who is interested in babysitting gigs during Boskone. He has experience and has the American Heart Association CPR/First Aid for babysitters certification. We are staying in the hotel starting Friday evening. Cell me at 7814759951 if interested.

The Lobby Birch Bar will be open at noon on Saturday for drinks and light meals.

John Scalzi will have a signing at 2pm on Sunday afternoon - follow signs for location. Additionally, he will be at a book launch party for his new NESFA Press book at 3pm on Saturday in the demo area of the Galleria.