Miss Congeal-iality?
While Dragon*ConTV is all about Dragon*Con, we do have to give it up for other sci-fi conventions and their original thinking. Phoenix Comic Con is hosting their first annual Zombie Beauty Pageant (Jan 26-27). They will award three prizes:
- Miss Zombie Beauty 2008
- Miss Congeal-iality
- Miss Pathogenic
I love sci-fi conventions 
Wait, it gets better!
WEIRD TALES, the legendary fantasy & horror magazine that launched the careers of H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury, announces that the winning Miss Zombie Beauty will be awarded a truly unique prize: a one-of-a-kind, handmade, zombified WEIRD TALES edition called ZOMBIE LOVE, designed and created by Patricia Lee of Bookwyrms Art, and collecting Lisa Mantchev’s “Zombi” and Trent Hergenrader’s “Working Out Our Salvation” from issue #344. Never before has there been such a WEIRD TALES artifact!
(WEIRD TALES is celebrating its 85th anniversary this year. The magazine has an all-new look, a new editorial team, and a wealth of exciting new features and happenings! This spring’s anniversary issue will count down the “85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years,” and will also include a new Michael Moorcock Elric novella, an interview with China Mieville, a feature on steampunk artifacts, contributions by novelists Cherie Priest and Sarah Monette, and lots more — see http://www.WeirdTalesMagazine.com for details.)