This weekend I spent at the Tucson Festival of Books (TFoB), on the University of Arizona Mall. I can't stress enough what a wonderful, well-organized, and amazing celebration of reading and writing this is. Even more amazing is that it is entirely free, yes FREE!, to the public. Check out the list of authors who attended. If you're local, I hope ( Read more... )

Arriving at TusCon 36 around 5 p.m., I checked in and got my participant packet. Pulling out the schedule, I saw that my options for the next hour included a panel (Star Trek: Heresy or new revelation?) or a reading by David Lee Summers, the editor of Space Pirates, the anthology in which my collaboration with Karl, "Ship's Daughter," appeared. ( Read more... )

I'm back from TusCon 36. It was a good con & much fun was had by all. I took plenty of pictures (more Blurry Cell Phone Pictures(tm)), went to lots of readings and some really fabulous panels. The participants were really sparkling this year. (I hope that doesn't mean we've had an invasion of teenage vampires ( Read more... )

I had a great time at TusCon yesterday evening and am looking forward to a fun and busy day there, today. It's always great to touch base with other writers and since I've been attending TusCon for over 15 years, I've got lots of friends among both pros and guests. This year, there's a CosPlay event with a steampunk theme, which should be lots of ( Read more... )

Update to Tucson Comic Con 2009 - Part 1: I found the missing card for Pat Billings, who customizes character figures to your specifications. You can see some examples of his work at http://usn1.deviantart.com/.

Now, on to Tucson Comic Con 2009 - Part 2There were many free items available. Sometimes promotional goods from merchants, I've already ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I attended the second annual Tucson Comic Con, a one-day event held in The Hotel Arizona in beautiful, downtown Tucson. Entering from the West side entrance into the lower lobby, I didn't have to ask for directions as the crowd of people, many wearing costumes, were all headed in the same direction, to the right through the nearby ( Read more... )

It has been nearly a month since I posted anything. Bad me. I must make myself heard more often ( Read more... )

Today I arrived early at the TusCon booth, although not so early that there weren't already several other people there. The morning started a bit slower than yesterday. At the time, I thought this might be because many people were still at church, but I was reminded later that today was also the St. Patrick's Day parade. However, as the day went on ( Read more... )

This morning I worked on some bookmarks advertising TusCon *. I had created the original bookmark file several weeks ago, using some artwork that one of the members (or someone on the concomm? I've never seen a list of who's who), but had a very spacey moment and put the date as 2006, instead of 2009. When my error was pointed out to me, I went ( Read more... )

This weekend, as mentioned in earlier posts, is flycon2009's big weekend. I totally wanted to participate, but this weekend has turned out to be extremely busy ( Read more... )