The workshops presented here are offered by the KaKAO-Hannover group, led by A.-K. "Sawyer" Schmidt and their great KaKAO-Hannover assistants. They are also supported by the company STABILO. The workshops are aimed at everyone who is interested in KaKAO cards and drawing techniques. KaKAO cards are hand-designed trading cards in the typical trading card format of 6.4 x 8.9 cm or 2.5 x 3.5 inches. All techniques -- no matter if pencil, acrylic, watercolor, PC coloration or crafts -- are allowed, as long as the card stays a card and keeps its size of 6.4 x 8.9 cm. Even the theme may be chosen yourself. Afterwards you can trade these cards with others and start your own collection.

We present these workshops for all fans of costumes... Costume Empire devotes their time to beautiful and original raiments, costumes and accessories that were inspired by Tolkien's works and well known and popular sci-fi and fantasy series and movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean etc. and have been presented at many conventions and events. You're curious now? Just come in and find out...

In his first fantasy novel, Chris Hardebusch describes the life of the freebooters and tells stories about pirates fighting grand sea battles, the war of the trolls and how they taught the dwarves, magicians and elves to live in fear. His most successful novel "Die Werwölfe" (The Werewolves), which tells the myth of the shapeshifters in a new, spectacular way, was published last autumn.

Christoph Hardebusch was born in Lüdenscheid in 1974 and went on to study English and Media Sciences in Marburg. He subsequently worked as a writer for an advertising agency. His keen interest in the fantasy genre soon led him to become a novelist. Ever since his troll novels and the Sturmwelten (Storm Worlds) saga became a great success - "Die Trolle" (The Trolls) was honored with the Deutscher Phantastik-Preis (Literary award by a German online fantasy magazine) for the best German language debut in 2007 - he has been working as a freelance author. His troll novels sold a quarter of a million copies alone.

„Legenden von Engil – Blutschwestern“ ("Legends of Engil - Blood Sisters")

With her historic novels from the old Egypt and the ancient world, Birgit Fiolka has already won the hearts of many readers. Her two latest novels "Amazonentochter" (Amazon Daughter) and "Das Vermächtnis der Amazonen" (The Legacy of the Amazons) also reached more of the fantasy fans, so that it stood to reason to turn towards the fantasy genre. With "Legenden von Engil - Blutschwestern", Birgit Fiolka now presents the first part of her fantasy duology with the publisher Aufbau-Verlag: an epic fantasy novel about a feud of deities, taking place in an archaic world. Since the book will only be officially available in bookstores a few days later, FANTASYDAYS® will present you an advance premiere of the work by Bigit Fiolka!