NANCY KILPATRICK'S
TRIPS AND CONVENTIONS

 

DARK MEXICO

Nancy and her companion Hugues Leblanc visited Mexico for el Dia de los Muertos.
Click DARK MEXICO to check out their photo album!

Once there, click on ARTICLES and read Mexico's Devilishly Dark Side,
Nancy's travel article published October 28, 2000 in The Globe & Mail Newspaper, and reprinted online at 2 Camels

 

DARK ITALY

Nancy and Hugues travelled to Italy in 2003. Click DARK ITALY to check out their photo album!

 

 

Conventions and Events

 

Nancy has been a guest of honor or special guest nine times at:

Galaxieles 1997, Nancy, France
Celebration of the Undead 1999 and 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Twilight-Terrors 2000, Chicago, Illinois
Horrorfind Weekend 2003, Baltimore, Maryland
World Horror Convention 2004, Phoenix, Arizona
Festival of Fear 2005 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Boreal 2005, Montréal, Québec
World Horror Convention2006, San Francisco, California
World Horror Convention2007, Toronto, Ontario
In addition, she edited and compiled the WFC 2001 CD-ROM.

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy has been a regular con-goer for a number of years, starting with Rhino Con in London, Ontario in 1992. She has attended these conventions:

 

World Horror Conventions

 1993 Stamford, Connecticut

1994 Phoenix, Arizona

1995 Atlanta, Georgia

1997 Niagara Falls, New York

2004 Phoenix, Arizona

2005 New York, NY

2006 San Francisco, CA

 

World Fantasy Conventions

 1994 New Orleans, Louisiana

1996 Schaumburg, Illinois

1997 London, England

1998 Monterey, California

1999 Providence, Rhode Island

2000 Corpus Christi, Texas

2001 Montréal, Québec, Canada

 

World Con

1994 Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

Bouchercon

1992 Toronto, Ontario

2004 Toronto, Ontario

 

She has also regularly attended annual events such as:

 

Ad Astra - Toronto

Bloody Words - Toronto

Cancon - Ottawa

Celebration of the Undead 1 & 2 - Toronto

Con*Cept - Montreal

Comicon - Chicago

Contradiction - Niagara Falls, NY

Convergence 5 - Toronto

Convergence 8 - Montreal

Dracula 97 - Los Angeles

EerieCon - Niagara Falls, NY

Horrorfind Weekend - Baltimore, MD

HWA annual meetings - NYC

Word on the Street - Toronto

Salon des livres - Montréal and Québec City

 

 

PICTURES

 

 Nancy with (from left) David Schow, Kim Newman,
Nancy Holder, Stephen Jones, signing at Dark Delicacies, Burbank, CA 2006

 

 Nancy signing, with Sephera Giron at Borderlands Books, San Francisco, CA, WHC 2006

 

 Nancy with fellow GOHs author Poppy Z. Brite and French writer Daniel Walther at Galaxiales 1998, Nancy, France

 

Nancy with Clive Barker, both guests at Festival of Fear 2005

 

Nancy with Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), at Festival of Fear 2005

 

Nancy with Dee Snider (formerly of Twister Sister) at WHC 2004

 

Nancy, having just given Ramsey Campbell a pair of skull sunglasses, WHC 2004

 

Nancy with Borderlands Books proprietor Alan Beatts signing at Horrorfind Weekend 2003

 

Possibly Nancy's youngest fan. Horrorfind Weekend 2003

 

Writers Without Drinks panel! GOH authors at Horrorfind Weekend 2003

 

Nancy reading from Bloodlover at Chapters Bookstore on Richmond, Toronto, 2000

 

Nancy between gigs in Toronto, 2000

 

Signing Bloodlover at Siren, with Caro Soles of Baskerville Books, Toronto, 2000

 

Signing The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick at the Mosaic Press booth at Word on the Street, Toronto, 2000

 

Nancy as GOH at the Twilight-Terrors autographing, with author Sephera Giron,
and Twilight-Terrors Convention organizer Rich Lukes, Chicago, 2000

 

Moderating panel at WFC, with author Nancy Baker, noted horror expert Bob Hadji Knowlton, author Kim Newman, editor Stephen Jones, and others, New Orleans, 1994

With Dark Terrors editor, Stephen Jones, and author Cait Kiernan at Dark Delicacies, Los Angeles, 1998

Nancy and Dallas Mayr after the Bram Stoker Awards, NYC, 1995

Nancy with F. Paul Wilson, Stephen Jones and Jo Fletcher, signing as contributors to Dark Dreamers, Montreal, 2001

Nancy reading at Hart House in Toronto, 1998

At an annual HWA meeting in NYC, with Jim and Bonnie Moore, and others, 1995

Nancy at Con*Cept, in Montréal, with noted Québec writer Jean Louis Trudel, 1998

Nancy and writer Karen E. Taylor, jointly signing at a Barnes & Nobel in New Orleans, 1994

With science fiction legend Judith Merrill, author James Alan Gardner, and writer Alan Weiss, at the launch of Northern Stars, Toronto, 1997

Having a pint at the pub with Stephen Jones and Mandy Slater in London, England, 1997

Eating sushi at a Japanese restaurant in Toronto with author P.N. Elrod, 1996

Nancy at WFC. Photo by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, shooting the famous Writers on Rugs photos, Monterey, CA, 1998

With crime and mystery writer/editor Peter Sellers, Toronto, 1996

GOH at Celebration of the Undead No. 1, Toronto, 1999

Nancy as GOH at Celebration of the Undead 2, Toronto, with author Sephera Giron, and Butch Miller, editor with Dark Tales Publishing, Toronto, 2000

Nancy at a WFC. Photo by noted SF/F/H photographer Beth Gwinn

At WFC 1998 with co-editor Thomas Roche, and their editor at Ace Books, Ginjer Buchannan. Photo by Beth Gwinn

Visiting Forry Ackerman's mansion, Los Angeles, 1997

Reading at Chapters, Montréal

Nancy at Chapters, Montréal

Laughing at the dry wit of Charlie Grant. WFC 1998. Photo by Beth Gwinn

With the legendary Christopher Lee, at the signing of his new book, WFC, London, England

At a chic restaurant in Paris, France, with French author Claire Panier.

Nancy and Dennis Etchison signing their new books at a pub during WFC 1998

Nancy and her companion Hugues Leblanc, during taping of the Masochistic Religion video The Vampire, Toronto

Nancy with Masochistic Religion's Mitch Krol during video shoot.

Nancy with Nina Hoffman at the Ace Books table at the awards banquet, WFC 2000, Corpus Christi, Texas

Nancy and Thomas Roche signing In the Shadow of the Gargoyle in San Francisco, CA, 1998

Nancy at a WHC autographing for As One Dead, and Child of the Night

Nancy with editor Edo vanBelkom, and other Northern Dreamers, at the book launch, Toronto

Hanging out with screenwriter Pete Atkins and editor Jo Fletcher at WFC 2000, Corpus Christi, Texas

Nancy celebrating with a Bloody Mary, autographing her three new books at WFC 2000, Corpus Christi, Texas

 

 

 

 

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