Golden Crown Literary Society

P. O. Box 120849

Melbourne, Florida 32912

www.goldencrown.org

Golden Crown Literary Society Announces Details of 2008 Conference

If you haven’t yet attended a Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Conference, you’ve missed a lot. A chance to meet many of the top authors in lesbian fiction today; interesting and informative presentations and panels for writers and readers; the opportunity to speak directly with publishers; networking with peers; autograph sessions; making new friends; and so much more.

Here’s some great news: The location and dates have been set for the Fourth Annual GCLS Literary Conference and you have almost a whole year to work it into your schedule. The conference will take place July 31, 2008 to August 3, 2008. Pre-conference festivities kick off with a Meet and Greet Wednesday night, July 30, 2008. Reserve the dates now and bring your shades!

The 2008 GCLS Conference will be held at the fabulous 4-star Wild Horse Pass Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Conference organizers were able to secure this world-famous resort for the incredible room rate of $139 per night, the same amount as the cost of a room last year. Rooms at this resort in-season cost upwards of $400 per night.

Katherine V. Forrest will be the keynote speaker at the conference. Katherine is the internationally known author of 15 works of fiction including the lesbian classics Curious Wine and Daughters of a Coral Dawn, the first novel in her Lambda Literary Award-winning lesbian-feminist utopian trilogy. Her eight-volume Kate Delafield mystery series is a three-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Her novels are in translation worldwide, and her stories, articles and reviews have appeared in national and international publications. A recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award, she was senior editor at Naiad Press for ten years (1984 -1994), and has edited or co-edited numerous anthologies.

Katherine has been profiled in USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bloomsbury Review, and most major lesbian/gay publications in America, including The Advocate; The Book Report; Curve; Visibilities; as well as abroad (The Queensland Pride, Queensland, Australia; Lesbienne, Paris, France); Tetu (Germany).

Wild Horse Pass Resort is located in the spectacular Sonoran Desert. Set against a backdrop of breathtaking mountains and wild desert, Wild Horse Pass offers a variety of restaurants on-site, a massive swimming pool, a lazy river, horseback riding, a casino next door, a spa, and more. Turn your stay into a family vacation. The GCLS has arranged for the same $139 room rates to apply for the three days preceding and the three days after the conference. The resort is less than ten miles from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

Ticket registration will begin in October. Please plan to join us in scenic Phoenix, Arizona next year from July 31st to August 3rd.  We’ll see you there! 

For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.gclscon.com/.