It’s Alive!
Amanda dressed as Zoey, complete with stuffed Milo and toilet brush. Also, I autographed her boob. And Ashley’s, too. I signed boobs.
Over the course of the last month, I’ve been everywhere but my own blog. The virtual tour was a lot of fun, but it’s good to be home. There are things you can do or say at home that you can’t at someone else’s place.
For one thing, you can write a post first thing in the morning and post it right away, instead of writing something a week or more ahead of time.
Which brings us to this morning. Hello! Guess what I did this weekend? I was at Planet ComiCon. I spoke on a panel. I did not die of fear.
It was a good weekend.
I gave away a bunch of bookmarks, postcards, and lucky gargoyle snot. I met a lot of people, including someone I’d previously been chatting with on Twitter. Hi, Mike! It was nice putting a face to the Twitter handle.
My side of the table.
Though I was terrified, the panel went well. When we started, barely anyone was in the audience. Except my awesome friends, of course. (And while we’re talking about my awesome friends, how wonderful is Amanda, who cosplayed Zoey?)When I wasn’t looking, people slipped in and filled up the back. About halfway through, I realized the place was no longer empty. They fooled me. If I’m going to speak in public (with my own mic, no less) this is the way to get me to do it. It also helped to have my buddy Jason Arnett on the panel with me. The other panelests were award winning YA historical fantasy author, Elizabeth Bunce, and NYT bestseller, Alex Grecian. Comic/graphic novel writer, Ande Parks was a great moderator and asked wonderful questions.
I lived through it and actually had some fun, too.
Cloud from Final Fantasy. Amazing costume. Note the B.A.C.A. guys.
At the booth, I was able to check out the costumes from a safe vantage point without getting smooshed in the crowd. Jason and I shared the table, so his stuff was on one side, and mine was on the other. The table to our left was this guy who makes a living by going from convention to convention doing these awesome super-fast sketches. On the right we had bikers. Seriously. I talked to quite a few of them. Very cool group called Bikers Against Child Abuse (B.A.C.A.). And on the other side of them was Randal Milholland, who writes a webcomic called Something Positive. I didn’t get to talk to him until right there at the end, but he was fascinating.
Pooka in My Pantry has had a much more interesting birth into the world than Monster in My Closet, what with the tour and the con. It’s also spent the last two weeks in the top 100 urban fantasy list on Amazon. Sadly, it slipped out of it last night, but Sundays are usually slower for sales, and maybe we’ll get a post-con rush in the next few days that puts it back into the list. If not, it was still a great run. I was stunned to see it there at all, let alone for two weeks solid.
Go ahead and blink. Now she’s in your eye, so it’s too late to worry about it. You’re welcome.
So, now what? Now, I write another book. Fairies in My Fireplace is off with the copyeditor now, so there isn’t much left for me to do with it. I only touch it once more before it goes to production for it’s September release, and that will only be a brief last look. I already did my final read-through.
It’s time to stop promoting book two. Editing it done for book three. With the exception of the RT convention next month, I have nothing else scheduled.
It’s time to go back to what I came here to do: be a writer. And as we all know, writers write.
