The Great Allentown Comic Con - Day Two
I went in to this fully expecting Sunday to be extremely slow. I stood, or rather sat, corrected. I had heard through the grapevine that 1,000 people attended on Saturday. Were I to venture a guess, possibly 600-700 people turned up on Sunday. Steve Wilson and his family left at about 1PM for the three hour drive back to Maryland but not before Steve sold a few back issues of Star Trek comics he had written for DC back in the 90s.
Steve's oldest son, Ethan, made a few bucks selling on demand sketches of Star Wars and superhero characters. As for me, well, it's always nice when someone returns to your table 20 minutes after buying a copy of your book to tell you that she can't put it down (but had to in order to help at her son's art table).
With our guest table completely mine in the mid afternoon, I spent about an hour on second draft revisions to my second book and stole away for a few minutes to have Peter Mayhew autograph one last vintage Star Wars item for me, the Return of the Jedi Collector's Album (essentially, a magazine about the making of the film).
I packed it in around 3PM and assisted with setting up for the art auction to benefit Epilepsy Awareness Month. I then took some last minute pictures with veteran writers buddies Michael Jan Friedman and Peter David and friend and artist Laura Inglis (see below) before leaving the show.
As a side note, I also received an email invitation this weekend to return as a guest at BaltiCon over Memorial Day weekend next year. I'm looking forward to that but first, come February, I will also be an author guest at Farpoint !
Steve's oldest son, Ethan, made a few bucks selling on demand sketches of Star Wars and superhero characters. As for me, well, it's always nice when someone returns to your table 20 minutes after buying a copy of your book to tell you that she can't put it down (but had to in order to help at her son's art table).
With our guest table completely mine in the mid afternoon, I spent about an hour on second draft revisions to my second book and stole away for a few minutes to have Peter Mayhew autograph one last vintage Star Wars item for me, the Return of the Jedi Collector's Album (essentially, a magazine about the making of the film).
I packed it in around 3PM and assisted with setting up for the art auction to benefit Epilepsy Awareness Month. I then took some last minute pictures with veteran writers buddies Michael Jan Friedman and Peter David and friend and artist Laura Inglis (see below) before leaving the show.
As a side note, I also received an email invitation this weekend to return as a guest at BaltiCon over Memorial Day weekend next year. I'm looking forward to that but first, come February, I will also be an author guest at Farpoint !
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