Just back from Dragoncon and “Holy Crap!” doesn’t even begin to cover it. I’m still a bit footsore, a bit sleep-deprived, and a bit overwhelmed by it all — but what a fantastic experience. The Con was a massive convergence of all things sci-fi, fantastical, horrific, and just plain . . . other. Massive throngs of people slipping between four hotels in the heart of Atlanta, incredible costumes, great panels and programs and galleries, and tons and tons of dealers and exhibitors catering to nearly every urge, passion, enthusiasm, or addiction a genre fan might have — or concievabley develop.
It’s just as well I didn’t bring a camera, or attempt anything like a ‘Con Report,’ because I needed the whole four days just to wrap my head around the scale of the thing. Plus I was busy at the Roguelikefiction booth at the exhibitors hall helping my friend Nathan Jerpe sell his built-from-scratch computer RPG Legerdemain. Jason Waltz of Rogue Blades Entertainment made the long trip down to Atlanta with some copies of Return of the Sword, and we managed to get books in the hands of a lot of fans of Heroic Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery . . . until we sold out! I doubt if either of our roguish products could have sold any better if they had been literal hot cakes.
And I even got to play big shot and autograph some copies of Return of the Sword, an activity that makes for a great ego-boost for a solitary, ‘under-the-radar’ writer like me. Dragoncon was an absolute blast, I met a lot of great people with similar interests, and I’m already counting the days till next year.
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i would have wanted to see fotos!
and how exciting to be signing autographs!
Hey Cindy, fortunately there will be tons of pics on the web shortly — Locus usually has links when someone posts a con report, and the Dragoncon website itself will have some. They’ll definitely be worth seeing.
As for signing autographs it is a lot of fun — as I’m sure you’ll find out pretty soon!
you should have at least gotten
a foto of yourself doing a signing. =D
You’re right, but I never thought about it. My friend did get some pictures of his booth, I may post them.
Now I plan on scrutinizing the thousands of Con pics that will be surfacing in the next week to see if I’m in the background anywhere.
Oh yea! Jason and I got interviewed, too.
Aw, that’s right! We forgot (or I forgot) to track that lady down though. Have you tried to track down the interview?
Great summary, Bill. It’s my fault there’s no pix, Cindy – I forgot to bring my camera in on Sunday. I suppose we could have used our cameras, but I forgot I had my first camera phone
Dragon*Con will pretty much be a sure thing, far as RBE is concerned, from now on. See y’all there!
I’ve been googling for the interview, no luck yet.
I’ve got a few good ones… just gotta go through digging them up and posting them.
Plus it will give Cindy something to laugh at!
Hey Bill, any idea how to allow users to edit their existing comments?
In the meantime, here’s a link to my blog (apologies for the crosspost) with some Dragon*Con pics:
http://roguelikefiction.com/?p=76
Are we freaking holding hands in that first picture, or what?
Don’t know if I can make it so you can edit posts, not a big deal though. I suppose if a commenter ever had a problem they could contact me and I can make the fix.
Wow that last picture is making me hungry.