Rats! It’s Over!

Mass Signing!

Bubonicon is over for another year.  I had a great time, and managed to make most of the con without melting into a little puddle of tired.

Favorite things?  Getting to read from House of Rough Diamonds to an audience who must have liked it, because even though the novel isn’t quite yet out, one of the booksellers sold out of the first two books in the series (Library of the Sapphire Wind and Aurora Borealis Bridge) and another nearly did, even with sending back to their warehouse for more copies.

I was on two great panels: one on naming characters, the other on rejection.  I also was able to once again join in on the fun of SnackWrites, where the writing prompts went between the bizarre (“an army of flaming plasma hamsters” and “liquor, power tools, and sex: my pandemic diary”) to a tribute to the late Suzy McKee Charnas that asked us to include both vampires and horses in our pieces.  It was amazing how many people came up with very different ways to make these work, and all with only five minutes in which to come up with an idea and write.

Unfavorite things?  Nothing the con could do anything about, but the hotel’s smaller programming rooms were brutally cold.  I actually left one panel I had been planning to watch because I was too cold to sit still.  And, yes.  I had a jacket. 

So, Bubonicon is over for another year, but your chance to visit with me in person isn’t quite over.  September 15 to 17, I’ll be at P-con, a new convention in Texas.  Since it’s a new con, I’m looking forward to a more intimate gathering where it will be possible to actually talk to people, as well as be on panels, sign books, and maybe even take part in a “in front of a live audience” RPG.

I don’t have a final schedule yet, but there have been suggestions of events like Coffee ‘n Chat or a brunch as well.

It’s uncertain if there will be a bookseller on site, so you might want to bring your own books with you.  I will have postcards and bookmarks, and I’m donating some books—including a few ARCs and proofs—to the convention’s auctions, but I’m not planning to serve as a book vendor.  I’d rather be chatting than worrying about making change!

Hope to see some of you there!