SheaCon 2023: Battle of the Sheaverse

Hail Champions! The Battle of the Sheaverse approaches!

What is the Battle of the Sheaverse?

The Battle of the Sheaverse is a 5 day series of challenges on Kitty’s Discord server leading up to SheaCon. These challenges will be set in the three main worlds of the Sheaverse. Each champion will have to decide where their allegiance lies, is it with Team Retha, Team TFT/FTE, or Team Magiford?

Beginning on Monday, July 24th, and leading up to SheaCon, a unique prompt will be posted each day to each team’s channel. (This special section of the server for the Battle of the Sheaverse will not appear until July 24th.)

Read the prompt, complete the task, and post in your team’s channel according to the instructions given. The team with the most posts (original responses to the daily post) will be crowned victor during the opening ceremonies of SheaCon!

Note from Kitty: This is the first time we are ever having a Battle of the Sheaverse and I’m so excited to watch the fun! It’s also a great way to get familiar with using Discord prior to the start of Sheacon.

If you haven’t joined my Discord server yet click here for the invite to join! Once you’re signed up click here to visit the channel at anytime!

SheaCon2023: Activities!

Hello Champions, my name is Cindy. As Head Planner for SheaCon 2023 I need to give a loud shout out to the amazing work of all the planners. They are responsible for creating many of the new activities and preparing old ones to return.

We have a slew of Shea/Sohma themed activities broken up into three categories for you to enjoy! Solo Activities for you to complete on your own, Interactive Activities for you to participate in via text chat channels, and Hosted Activities at scheduled times in voice channels run by a pair of hosts who will lead the fun.

Solo Activities: 

1. Returning and new solo activities will be in the Printable Activities channel and include Mad Gabs, Madlibs, Buzzword Word Search, Quote Cryptogram, Magical Creature Word Unscramble, and Trivia Crossword.

2. In our puzzle channel you will find many virtual jigsaw puzzles of Kitty’s book quotes and cover images.

3. Match your wits against a series of four puzzle challenges in our new Retha-themed virtual escape room!

Interactive Activities:

1. In our Art channel you can post Kitty fan-art or pictures of a KM Shea/AM Sohma character cosplay you’ve created.

2. Do you like riddles? Do you like Emojis? Then step right into our new channel full of Emoji Guessing Games!

3. The Vintertainment Writing Collaboration is back! Vin will start with a prompt and each Champion will have the opportunity to write a few sentences at a time to contribute to the new story.

4. Vote for your favorite magiford snack in Snack Smackdown! Will it be Chips, Granola bars, Popcorn or Doughnuts?

Hosted Activities:

1. The fan favorite Drawing with a Twist will be back! Follow a series of drawing prompts and see which Shea/Sohma scene unfolds.

2. Test your mettle in a round of K. M. Shea themed trivia Kahoot!

3. Test your intelligencer abilities in Codenames! Codenames is a virtual card based guessing game with a spy theme.

4. Pull up a Bingo card and listen carefully as your host calls out familiar Kitty related words

5. Hosted Elven Star Stretches will get your muscles moving after enjoying so much time sitting during SheaCon. (These will be similar to Aldelbert’s Glory Stretches from 2022!)

6. Read-alongs will allow champions to read one of Kitty’s short stories or a chapter of one of her books together.

7. Vin will be running her famed Writing Sprints on Saturday.

8. Vin will also be hosting a LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online) watch party as she and others from the kin run around Middle Earth. If you’ve ever wondered what Retha might look like, be sure to join in.

All this is in addition to the panels with Kitty, guest author panelists, and Retha and Dragons, a Dungeon and Dragons game with an Age of Retha twist! We are very excited to see you at SheaCon 2023, so be sure to mark your calendars for July 28th through 30th!

SheaCon 2023: Panel Schedule

July is here which means it’s time to share the SheaCon 2023 panel Schedule! In addition to the panels there will  be loads of other activities, but these are the panelists so you can strategize what you want to try attending! All panel times are in the central time zone!

Friday:

1. Opening Ceremony at 6 pm

2. Panel with Hanna Sandvig and Charlotte Vane at 8 pm

Saturday:

1. Kitty Q&A #1 at 11 am

2. Panel with Elisa Rae and Celeste Baxendell at 2 pm

3. How to Train Your Champion Panel at 5 pm

4. Celebrity Retha and Dragons with Kitty, Hanna Sanvig, Elisa Rae, and our Vin at 7 pm

Sunday:

1. Kitty Writing Panel at 12 pm

2. Kitty Q&A #2 at 3 pm

3. Kitty Hot Seat Panel at 7 pm

July 6th is your last chance to submit your questions about books, writing style/process, etc, for me (Kitty) or any of our Sheacon 2023 guest panelists. To keep the panels running on time we will not be taking questions during the panels, so if you have a question you want me to answer you MUST submit it ahead of time!  If you want to review the Sheacon guest panelists, there’s information in this blog post.

Click here to submit a question for Kitty, and click here to submit a question for any other panelist!