This is a new publisher. It's actually so new that it's not technically even live yet (hence the website not being up yet).
The fact that they recognize the importance of this convention to the industry does say something about them.
Sheesh. That's the same song and dance about it being a professional rather than a fannish convention that you hear about World Fantasy Con. It's not true in either case. Fans do the work of putting on both WHC and WFC -- and the conventions should damned well be grateful, because the fan community is much better than J. Random Pro at running conventions.For those not in the genre, World Horror Con is THE professional convention for the horror publishing world (especially when it's held in conjunction with the Horror Writers Association's Stoker Weekend). For those of you who haven't gone, it's fundamentally different from your local fan con as the focus is very strongly on the publishing industry and business of writing. That's not to say it isn't a fun time, or that fans don't enjoy it.
It makes as much sense to hold pitch sessions at the booth as it does to hold them anywhere else.It isn't normal to do the pitch sessions at the booth. Perhaps they did miss the cut-off deadline. I don't know.
That's because horror collapsed as a commercial genre in the late 1980s. Genre stalwarts have carried on publishing it, often undercapitalized and in difficult circumstances; but that doesn't mean that every horror publisher operating from home is created equal.As far as where there office is located, you will find that even the top publishers in Horror are often run out of someone's house.
I don't know where this animosity is coming from, but you are wrong on a number of points.Sheesh. That's the same song and dance about it being a professional rather than a fannish convention that you hear about World Fantasy Con. It's not true in either case. Fans do the work of putting on both WHC and WFC -- and the conventions should damned well be grateful, because the fan community is much better than J. Random Pro at running conventions.
You don't prove that you're professional by snubbing or deprecating the people who are working to put on your annual convention. You prove that you're a pro by making sales.
It makes as much sense to hold pitch sessions at the booth as it does to hold them anywhere else.
That's because horror collapsed as a commercial genre in the late 1980s. Genre stalwarts have carried on publishing it, often undercapitalized and in difficult circumstances; but that doesn't mean that every horror publisher operating from home is created equal.
Anyone can put out a flyer at a convention.