Balticon!!! (The End)

[jpskewedthrone]

I have returned home after a safe and yet rather illegally short *cough* car ride provided by pbray.

I had a blast at Balticon this year, mostly due to hanging out with said pbray and meeting new writerly friends, including davidjwilliams, who had his first novel released last week from Bantam, an SF novel entitled "The Mirrored Heavens". David is planning on doing one of my Author Introductions, so keep a watch out for that in the near future (ha ha). And if you ever get the chance to hear David do a reading, take it. I also lined up a few more Author Introductions, to be announced later.

Aside from new friends, I of course got to see some old friends, participate on many fun and exciting panels, and drink. I hit the Indiana Jones movie for the second time with Patricia and suricattus, and found that it actually held up on the second viewing, which surprised me. I liked it much better the second time through, actually. I'm not sure why, but will contemplate that later. Last night, I was interviewed for a podcast to be put up later by jlawrenceperry. As soon as that's live, I'll post the link.

In other news, I sold out of the paperbacks of my books in dealers room . . . and then proceeded to sell out of nearly all of the paperbacks that I'd brought with me "just in case," proving once again that I can sell my books as long as I'm present. Now if I could only get my clones to every bookstore in the world. . . . But anyway, since I'd packed an entire suitcase full of books, this was a good thing. A very good thing. So I left the con happy in that respect as well. I hope all of those who picked up the books enjoy them!

So, I rate (once again) Balticon as a successful con and fully intend to go back again next year. Thanks for making it a great con everyone!

Now, to prepare for that radio interview tomorrow for the local public radio station. I have to pick out a few readings from the novel. ONE MINUTE readings, or so. GAH! Where can I find something to read from the book that's meaningful and will make people rush out to buy the books in just one minute?!?!? In any case, as soon as THIS radio interview is up on the web somewhere, I'll give the link to that as well, so you may all mock me.

Comments

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

Yay, welcome back! Hmmm... I'm not sure I can pick a passage to read. If you think of any, feel free to post them and ask for a poll?

(I am so not helping.)

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

Glad you're home safe! I'm home too! Yay!

As for minute readings, (I assume it's for Vacant Throne let's see- could you do the 13 dead Chorl warriors up to "And there are inscriptions etched into it" in a minute? You could follow that with Ottul's reactions to their deaths, up to "Antreul," or so.

Just wanted to add that there's a picture of you and Patricia on my blog.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good time? If I can ask, do you have your own table in the dealer's room? Or do you do some sort of consignment thing with a store? (forgive me if you've discussed this and I missed it)

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sales. Having seen you sell a hardcover book to a woman *walking through* a bookstore, on the strength of you teaching at a school her son attended YEARS before you ever got there... I can well believe you sold out of everything. :-)

You should order a few thousand copies of your books, load up the Crossfire (hmmm.... well, as many copies as will fit in the Crossfire, then) and just drive around to like flea markets, craft shows, and other bizarre places where people congregate. I'm sure you'd sell out your entire stock. (Although you'd probably come home with your car filled with crackle glass...)

[steve-buchheit.livejournal.com]

You know, I also have tried to get my clones to hang out in bookstores. The slackers, all they do is eat biscotti and drink bad coffee. And now that I live in an incorporated village, I can't take them outback and shoot them anymore. Sigh.

Oh, yeah for selling out all your books.