After a hectic 2003, 2004 is one of those dead periods, which is probably just as well because I really need to stay home and write, write, write. But I WILL be (on my own, not as an official anything) at a few cons in '04 and there's already an '05 Toastmaster gig...
Commitments so far...
NOREASCON IV: The World Science Fiction Convention. This year it's in Boston over a long Labor Day weekend. It's the SF world's family reuinion and Ringling Brothers and most of the folks you want to see in the field are here (fantasy, horror, too). Not cheap although cheaper than a one day IT seminar, but it starts the Thursday before Labor Day and lasts through the following Monday night, and it's fun. Hugos, Masquerade, a superb art show by the field's best commercial, amateur, and fine artists, and lots more, and the parties last all night.... And the Democrats will be gone so we'll have the city to ourselves and probably look good in comparison as a convention. I have two program items or appearances a day so I should be easy to find. https://florafox.com/ru/pyetrozavodsk-30.
More will be added this year as time, money, and health permit, and in 2005 I'll be the Toastmaster at the Deepsouthcon in Nasville next April, with Mike Resnick as GoH.
If I'm not coming near your area, well, it's because your nearest convention didn't want me this time....