Host your event at the Friendliest Fiction Con in the Galaxy
An exclusive project from LegendFiction, built by authors who tired of marketing alone. We work together to create content and build a shared audience we can reach all year. It’s the friendliest con in the galaxy, because we're building a haven for storytellers to connect, create, and learn.
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Why creators love LegendHaven
I am on the edge of my seat for LegendHaven every year because I know I am about to plunge into a pool of revved up bookish, storyish people that I get to share my stuff with. COME TO IT, I WANT TO SEE YOU THERE TOO.
Gabriella Batel
2025
LegendFiction is a wonderful forum for emerging or seasoned authors of speculative fiction to connect directly with readers, fans, and fellow writers who are passionate about bold stories and looking for new worlds to explore.
Thomas Salerno
2025
One of the most unique and fun gathering spaces I've seen in an online convention. A great way to meet and make friends and fans.
Karina Fabian
2025
Dominic has created and is hosting LegendHaven, which I had the pleasure of speaking at last year. It’s billed as “the friendliest fiction convention in the world" where authors, story lovers, book nerds, gamers, and more gather to share their love of story, imagination, writing, and adventure.
Created by Catholics and Christians who love fantasy, science fiction, and epic books, you’ll meet fellow storytellers, learn how to create stories that change lives, and make friendships that last.
This is an unpaid and unsolicited endorsement - I just admire Dominic and his passion for creating this community! Maybe it’s the right fit for you!
Peter Atkinson, Merry Beggars
2025
LegendFiction makes writing and storytelling easier, "cooler", and so much more fun! Last year I published my first novel thanks to the resources and community provided by LegendFiction. It's also kept me accountable to my writing goals, allowing me to write better stories in a much shorter period of time. Thanks so much to Dominic and the LegendFiction team!
Mary Rose Kreger
2025
As a priest and a student of Sacred Scripture, I can appreciate the value of good story-telling. It is great to connect with other people who also value stories and fiction and the lessons they can impart to us.
Fr. Matthew Mary Bartow, MFVA
2025
Finding a writing community is essential for authors of all types. As a publishing professional, I love that LegendFiction and LegendHaven connects writers to likeminded friends who can support them on this journey!
Anjanette Barr
2025
Storyteller Core
Host your session
Invite your followers to join you and meet new friends inside LegendFiction for a weekend! We use the best, easiest, and most powerful platform in the industry to bring people together.
You can host an story read-aloud session (recommended!), and share a chapter of your latest book, or a sneak peek from your upcoming launch.
How does the expo work?
Ahead of the convention, you'll get access to our expo area.
Scheduled Booth: You can create events on a shared calendar, and edit everything: upload your own header graphic, title, adjust the time, tweak the description, and chat with members in a full comment area! You can link to your website, embed a video, and promote anything you want.
Create Posts: Ask questions and start polls on the feed, or share icebreakers to kickstart conversation. (No self-promotion in this area!)
Use Google Meet: Set up your own free Google Meet room and hangout with 50+ fans for up to 50 minutes. Fans can select custom backgrounds and fun filters, or join without camera to live chat.
Why Google Meet? This way you have total admin control of your meeting room, and everyone enjoys the same experience! Plus its free.
Expo event ideas
Note: To encourage attendee comfort and engagement, these events are not recorded.
📣 Live AMA session: Ask me anything about my books, writing process, inspirations, or what snacks my characters would eat.
📚Themed Event: Pick a movie or book, and rally the fans for a relaxing/turbo-charged conversation.
📚 Story Read-aloud and Q&A: Hear me read a epic scene or teaser, then stick around for a chat.
🎁 Contests and giveaways: Enter to win goodies and special gifts!
🤝 Meet & Greet Hangout: Chill with me and other fans in a relaxed open-room session on a specific theme.
🛒 Special Release: Book links, exclusive offers, and fan resources, only available for friends who bounce into my booth!
🎮 Gaming: Do you already livestream your gameplay, or want to host a gaming-focused meetup? Share your livestream and hangout with our authors.
Contest Ideas
Note: post about these on your website before the convention, to give members time to create.
🖌 Fan Art Contest: Draw a character, scene, or moment from my books. Upload your art right here in the comments so we can gush together! Prize: A signed copy of my book, or exclusive special gift.
✍️ Flash Fiction Challenge: Write a 100-word story inspired by a prompt from my universe. Enter by commenting right here on this post! Prize: Your story featured on my blog, and I'll send you surprise swag!
🤳 Cosplay or Shelfie Raffle: Dress up as a character or post a pic with my book. Upload it to the comments right on this post! Prize: Entry into a raffle for book bundles or Amazon gift card.
🧩 Puzzle Hunt: Follow clues that I've hidden across my blog, social media, or downloads. Send me a private DM with your answers, and then comment publicly here 'Done'. Prize: Secret story drop or early access to upcoming projects.
🎧 Dramatic Reading Contest: Record yourself reading a dramatic passage from my book (or I’ll pick one). Share it on Instagram or Tiktok, and link it here. Prize: Public shoutout, super special custom merch!
📜 Quote Match Game: Match character quotes to the right scene or speaker from my book. Happens live during the con! Prize: Character sketch, world lore sheet, or exclusive map.
Featured Storyteller
Join the livestream
For Legend Haven 2026, we’re turning the spotlight all the way up. Every morning and afternoon, we're running a livestream show on our YouTube channel. Anyone can watch. Anywhere. Phones, laptops, TVs. Real people showing up live.
How does the livestream work?
The show is hosted by our founder, Dominic—cheery, welcoming, and great at helping authors feel comfortable on camera.
Each author books a full 15 minutes. One author at a time. Your books. Your story. Your moment.
After the con, we clip out your segment, publish it as its own video on the channel. You can share it, reuse it, and send readers to it anytime. It keeps working for you long after the con is over.
What can I talk about on the livestream?
Bring your original and unusual ideas for a theme, or launch your book!
Dominic will ask you about your book, invite you to read the blurb, talk about the feel and genre, the ideal audience, and where people can find you online.
Consider announcing a giveaway, such as your first three orders get special treatment.
Afterward, how can people find me and my book?
Every participating author gets their name and website linked on our website, forever.
You can promote your website during your livestream spot, we will include it in the description, and Dominic can drop it into the live chat.
When we clip out your spot afterward, we will include a link in the description so folk can find you.
Why is this a good idea?
In 2025, many authors hosted private sessions in the Expo on fascinating topics, and many members weren't able to make everything.
So in 2026, we're giving everyone a chance to share their most interesting ideas, and we archive them online.
You can invite fans and attendees to hang out with you afterward in the Expo to go deeper on your topic, or workshop your thoughts.
Featured Storyteller
Enter the Goodie Bag
In 2025, attendees could grab a gift box of goodies, filled with sample stories, books, booklets, and discount coupons from storytellers and author services!
You can enter a coupon for a hand-signed copy of your book, or a selection of chapters from your novel, or a sample class from your workshop.
Proceeds from the goodie bag go to support the LegendHaven convention.
Here's how we collab with you to grow your author brand:
The LegendHaven team always works to do better every year, and go beyond what authors and attendees expect from an online event.
In fact, that's what they've told us!
Join the live-stream
Show up live on our livestream, with a set time, structure, and expectations. No guessing when or how to show up.
Free replays
Your live appearance is recorded and stays on YouTube. This becomes a forever marketing tool for you to reuse, share, clip, embed, etc.
Backlinks
Your face, talk title, and link to your website published on our site, and stays forever.
It's official!
Your name, book, and website are publicly tied to the event, giving context, credibility, and a professional point of reference.
Con Marketplace & Expo
A private space inside LegendFiction where attendees can browse authors, discover books, and join conversations. You can run storytime read-alouds, AMAs, or hangout sessions where readers and other authors join.
Author access
You’re surrounded by serious writers who are leaning in and learning, just like you!
Marketing deadline
A clear date to get stuff done! You get a place to talk about your book, ideas, and creative projects, and feel good about it!
Ongoing growth
This is part of our year-round cycle of collaboration, creation, and help for authors.
Even more reasons to get excited and join:
Want bragging rights for being at an online con? Because that's what you get. Bragging rights. And grow as an author. For some of us, these are more valuable.
Get featured
When you’re part of a public con, you’re no longer “someone posting about a book.” You’re an author featured in something organized and intentional.
You're welcome here
Speak about your book, ideas, and stories. You’re not interrupting people or begging for attention. You’re invited to share.
Grow together
Show up in a larger lineup happening at the same time. Share the momentum instead of working alone.
Shared Trust
Readers trust spaces that feel curated. Being part of a hosted weekend event makes people more open to listening to you.
A stronger author identity
You stop feeling like someone who “hopes to be an author someday” and start feeling like someone who is already doing the work.
Letter from the Founder
What if authors worked together to make marketing fun?
Marketing for indie authors feels like an impossible slog. So we decided to make it fun.
We turned it into the friendliest fiction convention in the galaxy! Since 2023, a bunch of faith-fueled, story-inspired authors assemble at LegendHaven.
Here’s how LegendHaven makes more magic in 2026: We've scheduled a weekend of free livestreams on YouTube, where you are the star. You share a short, unusual TedX-style mini-talk (one author right after another) so the whole thing feels like a festival of insights and stories and conversation. All hosted by me, the cheery founder, Dominic.
Then, inside LegendFiction (the coolest community of storytellers in the world) followers and fans can RSVP to you read-aloud your first chapter, or your lastest story.
After the weekend, the LegendHaven team clips out your special segment from the whole livestream. We publish it on our channel for free, forever, so that you'll always have it to promote you.
Not one author waving a tiny flag. A whole campfire.
- If you’ve been waiting for the moment where your book launch feels like an event…
- If you want an excuse to talk about your epic world and ideas...
- If you want friends who actually enjoy marketing instead of only talking about it…
Come be part of our first LegendHaven in 2026. Because this year, we're doing it twice.
See you at the con,
Dominic de Souza
Founder, host, head herd, & tech support
PS: It's an event where readers (and other authors) kick themselves for missing out.
Don't kick yourself. Join us instead. It's nicer.
Tired of trying to sell books and find your readers... alone?
We are too. That's why, after 4 years of building our community, we've started our Indie Author Marketing Mastermind, a private space for indie authors who want to market their books, share success and ideas, and even work together.
Join our lab and collab with LegendFiction authors. The LegendHaven convention is one of our key projects!
What happens in the mastermind?
We meet once a month online to swap ideas, share notes, and talk shop.
Plus, members get access to a growing library of resources handcrafted especially for them!
How does the mastermind help me?
Apart from the fact that you get to stay in touch with authors every month (or every day), you also get access to featured author interviews, a weekly Youtube livestream, a monthly blog post, and even host your own writing challenge for our members.
Do I get professional development?
Yes! This mastermind is hosted by Dominic, founder of LegendFiction. He works fulltime in marketing, and loves working with authors to help them build their brand.
You get a copy of his book 'Start Your SAGA Brand' included, plus 50% off a Brand Breakthrough session.
And you can post questions all month long on any topic, so that we can figure them out together.
Why creators love LegendHaven
I am on the edge of my seat for LegendHaven every year because I know I am about to plunge into a pool of revved up bookish, storyish people that I get to share my stuff with. COME TO IT, I WANT TO SEE YOU THERE TOO.
Gabriella Batel
2025
Before I found LegendFiction, I had no idea where to find other Catholic writers whose storytelling goals aligned with mine. I'm happy to have connected with Dominic and a few other community members, and I look forward to meeting more of you in the future!
Kristopher Ackoury
2025
Finding a writing community is essential for authors of all types. As a publishing professional, I love that LegendFiction and LegendHaven connects writers to likeminded friends who can support them on this journey!
Anjanette Barr
2025
I am so excited to network with other authors, connect with readers (and pick their brains about what they'd like to read in the future) and find some inspiration from like-minded Christ-centered creators!
Bernadette Richards
2025
Creating is so often a lonely endeavor. LegendFiction helps us come together in a supportive atmosphere where our goals are solely to help one another--and that's lifegiving.
Jane Lebak
2025
I found LegendFiction to be advantageous last time I attended. It helped me find new readers, fellow authors who shared my vision, and I even made some sales.
Cara Ruegg
2025
I learned about a lot of great new authors and books that I plan to look into as well as hearing a lot of talks about taking your writing less seriously and to just have fun with it.
Mary
2024
I loved the variety of panels! Having a gaming panel and a movie premiere was a nice break from just writing and book content.
Meghan
2024
I love getting to connect with like-minded writers from around the world. I lost my love of writing during college, but got it back when I just started writing for fun with no worries about anything else.
Amelia Leedom
2023
Legend Fiction has certainly brought back the joy and fun of writing for me!
Mary Rose K
2023
LegendFiction makes writing and storytelling easier, "cooler", and so much more fun! Last year I published my first novel thanks to the resources and community provided by LegendFiction. It's also kept me accountable to my writing goals, allowing me to write better stories in a much shorter period of time. Thanks so much to Dominic and the LegendFiction team!
Mary Rose Kreger
2025
For the last couple of years, LegendHaven has served as a great pick-me-up when I've needed to remember why I write and who I'm writing for. It's a booster shot of motivation, and gets me excited about writing, reading, and editing all over again.
Nancy Bechel
2025
Dominic has created and is hosting LegendHaven, which I had the pleasure of speaking at last year. It’s billed as “the friendliest fiction convention in the world" where authors, story lovers, book nerds, gamers, and more gather to share their love of story, imagination, writing, and adventure.
Created by Catholics and Christians who love fantasy, science fiction, and epic books, you’ll meet fellow storytellers, learn how to create stories that change lives, and make friendships that last.
This is an unpaid and unsolicited endorsement - I just admire Dominic and his passion for creating this community! Maybe it’s the right fit for you!
Peter Atkinson, Merry Beggars
2025
Dominic de Souza's love for the craft of storytelling has served as a magnet for like-minded individuals at LegendFiction. What he's built is commendable.
Douglas Ernst
2025
I loved everything! It was so much fun to come and hang out with fellow Catholic writers.
Caroline K
2024
The range of topics and discussions, how there were events available throughout the day, and how every discussion or panel was live instead of pre-recorded.
Zephyr T
2024
I learned how high quality Catholic/faith centric content can be. I always think things will be cheesy but there were great conversations on successful music and film-writing, great authors and even how Catholic media currently stands from a literary agent’s perspective.
Meghan
2024
Make it a two day event! I wish I could have attended more, because so much was going on! It seems like there is enough content that it could be spread out over two days!
Sr. Allison G
2023
I loved the small group talks and getting to have fun discussions with the teen attendees. The new platform was also super awesome!
Mary
2024
As a priest and a student of Sacred Scripture, I can appreciate the value of good story-telling. It is great to connect with other people who also value stories and fiction and the lessons they can impart to us.
Fr. Matthew Mary Bartow, MFVA
2025
LegendFiction is a wonderful forum for emerging or seasoned authors of speculative fiction to connect directly with readers, fans, and fellow writers who are passionate about bold stories and looking for new worlds to explore.
Thomas Salerno
2025
LegendFiction has been a source of inspiration and encouragement to me over the years. I joined the first two free conventions as a patron and I have loved watching it grow to include so much new talent!
Caroling Furlong
2025
LegendFiction is a good reminder that, as Catholic fans and subcreators, we aren't alone! There are so many great Catholics who love fantasy, sci-fi and the beauty of myth and are just looking for a place to share their love with others, without the vacuous disappointments of secular media. LegendFiction provides what all of us want: a "creative rebellion against meaninglessness"!
Kaleb Hammond
2025
I'm a fantasy author, a PhD student, a husband, and a father. I know the importance of strong communities of any sort, and LegendFiction is a community worth supporting!
Chris Rizha
2025
One of the most unique and fun gathering spaces I've seen in an online convention. A great way to meet and make friends and fans.
Karina Fabian
2025
I love feeling that I’m not alone as a Catholic writer in a very secular world!
Eileen W
2023
It’s an utter lie… I have been tamping down my enjoyment of fiction writing for 15-ish years…. always felt like there was something “more important” I should be doing. This community is quickly showing me that is an utter lie.
Melissa K
2023
I loved the discussions! It was so fun being able to discuss books and movies with other Catholics. I also loved the comedy session, that was amazing. Just chatting about different genres and fandoms with others was awesome as well, it's difficult to find others who share the same interests as me so I was so happy to meet people who do!
Emma A
2024
LegendHaven, the friendliest fiction convention where you meet the coolest storytellers in the world, learn how to forge stories that change lives, and start friendships that last.
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