Some Supernova thoughts
I'm going to blog about this and share more pics at Supernatural Underground in a couple of days, so I hope you're following!
So, getting to Supernova ended up being a full-on thing, thanks to some family issues last week that only resolved themselves in a good way on Friday afternoon. I'm not going to talk about that, as it's someone else's business, but suffice it to say it was a hard few days.
Drove up Friday evening with Tracey O'Hara and met Erica Hayes up there. We stayed at a service apartment block in Parramatta, which was really nice.[image error]
We spent Friday night catching up and gossiping. I went to bed at midnight – they stayed up until well into the ams.
Saturday morning we headed into Supernova to set up. I've NEVER seen anything like it – imagine the dealers room at Worldcon last year, but about ten times the size. Maybe twenty times! It was incredible.
And the line outside to get in – it went for hundreds of metres. We were astounded.
We set up and the stall looked fantastic – thanks to all the other urban fantasy/paranormal romance folks who sent us stuff. And thanks to to HarperVoyager for getting some posters done for Tracey and I.
Saturday was so busy I was overwhelmed – tens of thousands of people. I made a couple of excursions out to check things out and catch up with friends, like Kevin Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, but mostly I was happy to sit at the desk.
We all ended up headachey and exhausted and so left a little early to head back to the hotel. Dinner at the pub revived us, but still I was in bed by 9.30.
Sunday was a little quieter, not as overwhelming and (I don't know if that's why) better for us. We connected with more people, had some great conversations and sold more books.
We learnt a lot from the process and there is talk of doing it again next year – it was fun, and I think valuable to get the gospel of Australian urban fantasy out and about.
Finally, the other thing about Supernova – the cosplay. Sensational! Sitting and watching everyone come past was great. Here's a few (more on Supernatural Underground).
And some video footage – some of the remote controlled stuff was great!
[image error] Tracey O'Hara hugs a Dalek and the Dalek shows it's disgust. [image error] K9 meets a Star Wars droid–unfortunately this K9 doesn't talk yet but imagine the conversation!
