TeslaCon Recap

Okay, time for a brief post about TeslaCon.

I spent most of the weekend hanging out in the hallway near the vendor's room hawking the new Lord Bobbins/TeslaCon novel. I hate selling my own books, but I truly am grateful for the people that want them, and I'm especially grateful for the people who told me they really enjoyed the first one. This is a series I'd like to write for a long time, if the demand is there for it.

For those of you who like that series, please--tell friends. Hit it up on social media. Create art. Write reviews. Blog about it. Ask your local bookstores to carry it. Ask your local libraries to get it. Anything and everything helps.

Who knows...if enough people demand it, bigger things can happen. Let's take these books, and TeslaCon itself, international.

I did a panel on Saturday at TeslaCon. Only a few people came, but my daughter was there, and it was nice to have her watch her old man throw down and do what he do. I even got a couple of laughs at her expense (which I know she enjoyed). She's fully a teenager, so of course she could not let on that she enjoyed seeing me on a stage, but afterward she said, "You were funny. But don't embarrass me again."

At the table next to me for most of the weekend were the good people from Geneva Steam Convention. I talked briefly a bit with Emily Dragonwielder. She's my kind of nerd. (And I mean that with the utmost respect.) As of right now, as far as I know, my next--and so far only appearance--will be at Geneva Steam in March. I'm looking forward to it. It's a really neat little convention in a really cool resort. I attended last year for three days, and it was great.

If anyone has any other places where I can show up and hawk books, talk about writing, or even just stand on a stage and be entertaining for a while, let me know. If you've got a blog or a podcast that needs content or a guest, let me know. Have books, will travel. That's me.

The third book in the Survivor Journal series is out this past week, as well. ALL WE HAVE has already gotten a few very nice reviews, and my pal Wendy told me that the final chapters in the book made her cry, so I did my job.

Let me offer a deep, sincere thank you to those of you who pre-ordered the book, or who have bought a copy since then, or plan to in the future. Thank you to those who wrote reviews for it, as well. Every little bit helps.

Since I've already been asked the question several times: At this exact moment, I do not know whether or not the Survivor Journals will continue. I have at least two more stories to tell in that world. One will be a shorter work (somewhere between a short story and novella, most likely) and it will come out in the annotated omnibus ebook that Spilled Inc. Press will put out sometime early in 2019. The other is another extension of Twist's story. I have it outlined. I even wrote half the first chapter. We'll have to see if there's enough demand for more, and that info will largely come through sales/reviews. Fingers crossed.

In the meantime, as always happen when I finish a new book and deal with the dread of rejection that all writers feel when they release one of their babies to the public, I went through a pretty profound funk where I gave up writing for good.

I do this at least once or twice a year. I just look at the headaches, the effort, and the struggle vs. the return for all I put into it, decide it's not worth it, and I give up.

I always return to it, though. I'm the worst quitter ever.

This weekend at TC, in between sales and talking to the nice people who came by my table to say hello, I ended up jotting down 15K words toward a book I've been wanting to write since I was in seventh grade. I won't say anymore than that right now, except that it's a sci-fi novel. So far, I'm really having fun writing it. We'll have to see where that goes.

Anyhow, I had a great TeslaCon, and I'm looking forward to bring LORD BOBBINS AND THE CLOCKWORK GIRL to that con. And, I'm looking forward to TeslaCon West in Seattle in 2020.

Thanks to Bill Bodden, Scott Lynch, Eric Jon Larson, Emily and the other nice folk at Geneva Steam, and everyone else who bought a book, or stopped by my table to chat. As an introvert who is generally not that great in one-on-one talking (I much prefer the stage and the spotlight, because I'm apparently wired to perform), I appreciated the conversations.

And now, we return you to your regularly scheduled social media feed.

Thanks for reading.
--Sean