RSVP today for TS100

The 100th anniversary Tom Swift Convention will be held July 16-18, 2010 at the Sheraton Mission Valley Hotel in San Diego. This is the weekend before ComicCon.

Friday events will include museum tours and possibly tours of the Hotel del Coronado (where Edward Stratemeyer stayed when he visited the 1915 Panama-California Exposition) and a trip to UCSD Geisel Library to see their exhibit of Tom Swift material which is being arranged in conjunction with TS100.

Saturday and Sunday will include sessions with presentations, time to chat, a silent auction, a dinner (Saturday) and a Tom Swift live radio show performance.

We will have space for people to sell series books and related merchandise, including some convention-specific merchandise.

Plan to bring unusual or favorite Tom Swift-related items for a show-and-tell segment which was popular last year in Hammondsport.

Actual registration for the convention will be available soon with options to pay by check or PayPal. Hotel registration is available now. We need to fill 30 room-nights to meet with our agreement to have the convention space on Saturday and Sunday.

As we have more confirmations of speakers and events we will announce them here and on the TS100 web site.

Please RSVP today to let us know you will be coming.

Tom Swift 100 Convention has Fan Table at ConDor SciFi Convention this weekend

ConDor, San Diego's longest running science fiction and fantasy convention, held annually at the Handlery Hotel in San Diego, runs from Feb 26-28, 2010. The Tom Swift Convention will be represented by a Fan Table displaying photos of Tom Swift covers, flyers for the event, and the steering wheel from the Airship built for the never-completed Twentieth-Century Fox Tom Swift film from the late 1960s. James and Kim Keeline will be promoting the Convention for most of the day on both Saturday and Sunday at their Table. Be sure to stop by if you are attending ConDor.

ConDor Convention

SciFi Magazine's April 2010 Issue Covers Tom Swift 100th Anniversary Convention

SciFi Magazine, available today in major bookstores, has a full-page column devoted to the Tom Swift Centennial, written by Jeff Berkwits. As Berkwits writes, "For scifi fans of a certain age, the name Tom Swift brings back fond memories of rollicking adventures, futuristic contraptions, and, believe it or not, droll adverbs." The article goes on to discuss both the original and Junior series with photos of the covers of Tom Swift and his Airship and Tom Swift and the Visitor of Planet X, plus a brief discussion of the phenomenon of Tom Swifties. Get your copy today and make sure to join us for the San Diego convention in July.

Sci Fi Magazine
100th Anniversary Tom Swift Convention