From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Fri Oct 28 19:08:05 2011 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi Tandy) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:08:05 -0400 Subject: Special Guest Announcements, Registration News & More Message-ID: 1. Keep your eye on the website - http://www.hp2012.org - or our Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/Ascendio2012 - through Halloween as we announce our first HP Film Cast Member Guest for 2012! 1a. We're also thrilled to announce that novelists Lev Grossman (The Magician King, Time Magazine), Beth Revis (Across the Universe) and Aimee Carter (The Goddess Test) will also be attending Ascendio; they'll each be doing readings, signings and panels. 2. We have a very, very tiny number of full registrations still available at the $200 price; it'll go up to $225 in the next ten days, and given some of the announcements we're expecting to make in December, we think you'll be very happy to be able to have a Full registration. 2a. Portofino Bay Resort hotel rooms at our $210+tax/night rate are about one third booked. The standard rate for the hotel during our conference starts at about $350, and while off-site hotels may be slightly less expensive, we strongly recommend staying at the Portofino Bay because of the convenience of staying at the conference hotel, and the Express Pass option that you can use in both Universal Orlando parks (with paid admission) including on Dragon Challenge and Flight of the Hippogryff. 3. We've started accepting submissions for formal and informal programming, meet-ups and fanfic readings! You can learn more - and submit your plans and proposals - at the following links: Informal Programming: http://hp2012.org/?p=619 Fanfic Readings: http://tinyurl.com/AscendioFF Meet-ups: http://hp2012.org/?page_id=399 Formal Programming: http://hp2012.org/?page_id=463 Please consider proposing a round-table, discussion, panel, meet-up, activity, workshop, fannish event, or something else! Let your creativity, imagination and insight take flight! Let us know if you have any questions! Best, Heidi for Team Ascendio