News and Updates on Necronomicon,
Tampa's SF Convention.
Updated: 4-11-13
We're back in Tampa!
Our hotel for this year is the Embassy Suites on the USF campus. It's an all-suites hotel with free breakfast! You have to love that. There are many places to get inexpensive food nearby as well. Click the "Directions" link to the left and you'll get all the information on how to reserve your room.
Convention Theme
Costumers are always asking us what our theme is so they can get to work on their masterpieces. Well, folks, think fantasy, fantasy, fantasy. The official as it gets theme is "The Dragons are Coming!"
Our literary panels focus on fantasy topics but we'll still have our real science and fannish panels as well.
New Events
Friday night, you can enter or be a part of the audience for Necronomicon's Got Talent. If you wish to participate as a contestant, please visit the website www.singfortheday.com/talent for all the details. Then you can send email auditions@singfortheday.com for your ticket to stardom!
Following Necronomicon's Got Talent, we have a Geek Comedy Hour presented by Michael Murillo. This is a professional show and there is no extra charge to attend.
On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., join Pepperpot for Yoga for Nerds. Come in your comfortable clothes and get a nice start on your day with a little stretching and deep breathing to get your body feeling good. This will take place at 10 a.m. If you stay a bit too long and have too much fun at the Ygor Party on Friday night, Yoga for Nerds will help revitalize you.
Fans have opinions. Oh, yes, they do and we are going to give six local fans the opportunity to air some of them in the Great Geek Debate. We're picking the debate teams and the topics for debate but you are picking the winning team.
We will take suggestions for team names. If you think you have a great name for a team, send your suggestion to annmorris1@yahoo.com. If we choose your name, you'll get a ginormous portion of candy of your choice. We don't know why anyone would choose something other than chocolate (barring food allergies) but we allow that there are other candies out there. There will be two winners.
Charity Auction
As many of you already know, our art show director of many years, Stacy Lung, is in a nursing and rehabilitation home in her home state Indiana. She fell ill while participating as a zombie in a "Run for Your Life" event. She is unable to return to work and has quite a long road to regain her health. She is progressing well but medical bills are mounting. We are holding a special art (and other cool stuff) auction to benefit Stacy this year. This will not be yard sale stuff. Come looking for some nice treasures to add to your stash and help a Necronomicon friend. This will take place Saturday afternoon from 1-3 p.m.
If you wish to donate something to the auction, simply take it to the Necronomicon art show when you get to the con.
That's about it for now but keep watching this space. There's more to come. Updated: 12-4-12
Stacy Lung, the Art Show director for a number of years has suffered a catastrophic illness. She passed out and was found not breathing and was rushed to a hospital. She is slowly recovering but does not recognize anyone. Stone Hill is helping the family any way we can, and our hearts go out to them. She will probably be moved back to Indiana to be with her family. How this affects the Art Show has yet to be determined. Do NOT send any emails to necronomiconartshow@yahoo.com as we do not have access to that email account. You can email artshow@stonehill.org, as the webmaster will check that one. Thank you.
Updated: 10-19-12
Here's a quick one. The Program Book is available for your downloadable pleasure. Go to Necronomicon 2012 Program book, or right click and "save as" to get it.
Updated: 10-17-12
NECRONOMICON is ready for the end of the world as we know it. And we feel fine!
Like the designs of Slartibartfast, there are many fiddly bits to Necronomicon and you can be party to them all by using Guidebook. If you have any kind of I-device or android powered device (including the Kindle Fire), you can get the free Guidebook app and view the entire Necronomicon schedule. Any panel or event changes will be made to the Guide during the con and you'll have a running list of all the panels, who is on them and descriptions of the topics.
If you need to pay by charge card for membership or some lovely item from our art show, you'll be able to do so. We will be using the Square system to take MasterCard and Visa.
If you want to attend our all you can eat Italian buffet on Friday night. You have till October 20th to do so. After that, we cannot sell more tickets due to having to let the hotel know the total number of diners. At $15, it's a great deal. Visit our PayPal page to buy your tickets.
We will once again be having the Stash Your Stuff in registration. For $5 a day, you may stash items in registration while you attend panels, game, watch anime, etc. If you are not staying in the hotel and need to store a costume, we will have a hanging rack for that purpose as well as the bins to store your items.
Look for us on television. Our Necronomicon commercial will be running during "The Big Bang Theory" on TBS, "Futurama" on Comedy Central, various Syfy shows, and "Adult Swim" on the Cartoon Network. Look for some familiar faces in our ad. You can preview it on our embedded webpage.
The staff is working hard to get everything ready for our "End of the World" as we know it party. Come join in the fun and wake those dead Mayans who (supposedly) predicted the end of the world. See you there!
Updated: 7-6-12
The time has come to accept entrys for the T-Shirt Desgin Contest. YOU could be the artist to create the 2012 Convention Tshirt. Cline the link two sentences back to find out how!
There is now a link on the Directions page for the Hilton Hotel Reservations. Make your's soon!
The Dealer's Room pages are update with the current sales. Only 16 Table left.
The Art Show pages have been updated, including new application documents. Updated: 3-7-12
As the webmaster, I would like to apologize to our Dealers and Amber the Department head, for not updating the Dealer's pages. The tables are NOT sold out. Please visit the Dealer's Room pages for the latest information.
Updated: 2-22-12
Finally! An Update
Yes, Yes, we've been away too long. It takes time a return trip from Mars you know? Still it's good to be back on solid ground in time to get cracking on the 2012 Necronomicon.
This year, we are proud to welcome our Guest Linnea Sinclair to our Convention. If you follow the link, you will see that she is a noted author of Intersteller Adventure with a romantic twist. I'm sure there will be some very different programming at the Con this year.
Was you look through our pages, you will notice that some have the text in this color and some is in white. Once the white text has been changed, it will show the page has been updated with any of the 2012 information. White page, even if they have the new graphic, will still show 2011 information. Within a week it, should all be updated.
Thanks!
Updated: 10-12-11
Necronomiocn has Fans!
You Like Us, You Really Like US!
Holy Zarquon Singing Fish! This is really cool! Some fans of Necronomicon made a Commerical for Necronomicon 2011 and put it up on you tube. I'm just boggeled they'd do this. I've got to show it to you:
Updated: 10-11-11
There was some confusion on the website about Pre-Registration Deadline. Currently, pre-reg is still valid thru Sunday the 16th. If the Paypal link is working, you can buy your membership. The October 1st deadline was supposed to be just for mailed in checks for membership. We are sorry if this caused some confusion, and the pages and links are up to date.
If you booked your hotel room through a method other than the Hilton page
provided on the Necro site, could you please contact
deb@stonehill.org
with your name and dates of booking. We can get credit for the rooms but
we need the names. This is very important to the Convation. Please help!
A copy of the program books is up on the website now in PDF. You can get a sneak peek at it here.
Updated: 10-6-11
If you booked your hotel room through a method other than the Hilton page
provided on the Necro site, could you please contact
deb@stonehill.org
with your name and dates of booking. We can get credit for the rooms but
we need the names. This is very important to the Convation. Please help!
Due to concerns by the hotel staff, no costume weapons of any type can be carried in hand. They must
be holstered or sheathed. Please see the rules form for
more on the weapons policy.
The list of all the Panels at Necro 2011 is posted on the Panels Page.
Updated: 9-7-11
In case you missed it on the main page, the T-shirt Design has been chosen and you can find it by clicking the image at the right.
T-shirt Pre-Orders will end September 15th! Only a limited number of extras will be printed. Order yours here on our PayPal page.
This year, we are offering you two opportunities to get a good meal at Necronomicon. Early arrives can get a great Breakfast buffet for $10 Friday morning at 9am. You can also join us at the Guest of honor Banquet on Friday evening at 6pm for $15. Details on are on the Banquet Page or just go to the Paypal page to purchase your Breakfast or Banquet ticket. Cutoff date for both is October 10th.
Updated: 8-2-11
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we will be giving a special Necronomicon imprinted Messanger Bag to everyone who preregisters for the convention by October 1. You'll receive your Bag when you check in onsite at convention registration. There will be a limited number of the Messanger Bags available at the door, so register early to be sure you don't miss out on our giveaway.
Updated: 7-25-1
The Art Show has updated PDF forms in a writable format. Visit The Artists pages to find them.
Friday night at 11pm in the Main Ballroom will see the return of the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog stageshow. This year, The Evil League of Evil is Recruiting Videos for submission, that will be shown during the Stage show. Click the link for more info!
NecronomiProm Theme for 2011 Set
In conjunction with the Necronomicon on Mars theme for the 30th anniversary Necronomicon, our prom theme will be "Martian Fantasy." Formal wear or fancy dress is suggested, although not required. Suggestions for formal wear to fit the theme would be garments in reds and oranges to match the Martian landscape or greens to go with the imagined little green men from Mars. Fancy dress (costumes) could range from Steampunk to Modern Martian Funk. Anything that relates to fiction about Mars works.
As is now traditional, we will be choosing a prom King, Queen and Other from among the guests. Everyone is eligible. Just get a ticket when you arrive (free) and add it to the royal handsack. The prom is Saturday night after the costume contest.
Updated: 6-6-2011
Updates to the website continue. Webpages with white text has been updated for 2011. If it has gray text, it is leftover.
Once again we are doing a T-shirt Design Contest for our 2011 Shirt. If you have an artistic bent, or are just bent in general, then maybe you should send us an entry. The Theme for the Con is "Necronomicon on Mars", though the shirt does not have to reflect this theme. Here are several copy/pasted hyperlinks to our pages on T-shirts: T-Shirt Design Information How to Design a Necro T-shirt 29 pervious years of T-Shirt History
T-Shirt Design entries need to be in by August 12th for judging!
Author tables are sold out. If you are interested in getting a dealers'
room table, please go to the dealers' page and contact Amber.
Updated: 1-28-2011
The Necronomicon 2011 website is currently being updated. Look for pages where the text is white (like this one) to show it has been updated. The Gray color means it is still from last year. Below, you will find a write-up from our Program Organizer. Check back soon to see if you favorite page has been updated. (Seriously? You DO have a favorite page? You have GOT to get out more often! ~Webmaster)
We have a theme for this year’s Necronomicon. We’re celebrating our 30th year and honoring our guest of honor Ben Bova by having Necronomicon on Mars! Yes, that’s right. We’re going to host the convention on the red planet. Okay, we can’t actually go to Mars but we can do a darn good job of pretending.
If you are a costumer, you have a tremendous variety of literature, television, radio and film tales from you which you can take inspiration. Some of you might want to use Mr. Bova’s the
Grand Tour series by our guest of honor Ben Bova.
Wikipedia has a nice list of Mars fiction including radio, television, film and literature.
Last year, our Friday night guest of honor dinner was so popular that we are going to have one again this year. The menu is not set at this point but we’ll let you know when it is and how you can get tickets for the dinner. Anyone who wants to hear the guest of honor speech will be allowed to come into the room but dinner tickets will be limited. They will be available on a first come, first served basis. You will have to be a member of the convention to attend the dinner.
A couple of other things that were new last year that will be back are the Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock tournament and Starship Smackdown.
Naturally, we’ll have our Friday night Ygor party in the con suite, Dr. Horrible singalong, Saturday night costume contest and our NecronomiProm. (Prom theme is TBA.)
We’ll have our usual great gaming events and we will be having a large LARP presence this year with more playing areas throughout the night. You’ll be able to role play till dawn.
That's all for now. Check back for late breaking headlines.
