Monthly Archives: January 2008

ConFusion Madness and Tomfoolery! Minus the Tom. Maybe.

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Good news! The books came in! I will have five copies of The Remembrance for sale at ConFusion. One may go to M. Keaton for trade, but at least four will be available through the dealer room (yay consignment!) or from me.

Now all I have to do is get the ribbons and the painter’s tape out of the storage unit and pack. Busy busy me.

I’ll still probably play the seek-me-out game for the ribbons, and I think is creating some flyers to go up involving a squirrel with a crown. Heh.

OH! I will also be attending ConVocation next month, and should have a few copies on hand there, as well. Enough people have asked about it that I should probably have a copy here at work to show off. I know someone made the suggestion to who made it to me, but I can’t remember who it was.

Feeling like a writer again. :) Feels good.

Whining

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My friends list keeps posting neat stuff to read.
Warren Ellis keeps posting neat stuff to read.
The keeps posting neat stuff to read.
keeps posting neat stuff to read.
keeps posting neat stuff to read.
I have neat books to read.
I have a whole reading list of books I don’t own, and yet are neat, to read.
I have a Netflix queue full of neat movies to watch.
I have neat people that I miss that I want to visit.
I have neat places to go.

I have neat things to WRITE.

I think that my head is going to asplode.

ConFusion Quandry

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I have so much to read. I have so much to write. I have so many people that mean so much to me. I have so much to do.

But I have -so much- time.

Enter the cliche… where does it all go?

The books for ConFusion might not arrive on time. In the circumstance that they do not, I’m thinking of modifying an older idea. I have a bunch of badge ribbons that ask, “WHO IS THE SQUIRREL KING?” They’ve been the most popular ribbons of the three. I could give those that have read the book a ribbon, and a couple of USB jump drives with a .pdf copy of the whole novel. Then, I could print up twenty or so flyers that ask the same thing, and hang them in various locations around the con, with a picture of the Remembrance gem in the background (thanks again !). Underneath the question could be smaller print with a line of text directing them to people who have the ribbon. If they ask the question, they get a ribbon and a jump drive. Now, in the case that these people get asked the question (since they now have a ribbon), they can find people who have jump drives.

It’s an attempt at viral marketing that will rely upon sci-fi fantasy geeks to talk to a stranger. Luckily, being a con atmosphere, I think that it’s far more likely to happen. I think I’ve talked about this sort of thing before here. What do you think?