My most recent comment was an anonymous fan asking for me to finish my sequel to Heroes of the Fallen - it is coming, sorry for the delay. I'm going to try harder to post here at least once a week rather than just posting on facebook, twitter and tumblr. This needs to be a better catchall than just those other snowstorms.
In any case here are some highlights from SLCC - which was huge! My understanding is the numbers of people attending is right up there with SDCC or anywhere else for that matter so very cool! 120K+!
I got to meet Frank Frazetta Jr and the good guys at the Frazetta Museum Booth and get a few cool souvenirs!
Trolls were a problem as the WETA people brought quite a bit of LOTR goodness.
Lots of amazing cosplayers! Particular favorites of mine were Valerie Perez and Ivy Doomkitty
Being a presenter has its privileges, in the green room a number of celebrities were on hand and I hung out with Effren Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite) super fun and friendly guy!
I met Ron Perlman (one of my all time favorite actors!)
I nearly won the Space Balrogs, Supervillian Smackdown, but Dan Wells garnered just three more votes! And Jason King was hilarious!
Groot and Gamora! (Valerie Perez - so cool and nice!)
Daft Punk!
This guy was a stud! Great outfits!
Smaug's head was huge and ever watchful!
And selling books at a table with a host of awesome authors and friends including, Dave Butler, James Wymore, Craig Nybo, Sarah Seeley, Scott Tarbet, Jaleta Clegg, Sara Butler and Sean Ricks - aside from their collective awesomeness was that the guys at UGEEK Magazine relaunched the magazine with a new action adventure fantasy serial of mine: Walking Through Walls. This went out to thousands of attendee's and I'm hoping even a decent fraction enjoy it and look at some of my other works. 
Lots of thanks to all the people that came by, said hey, asked for autographs and bought books, oh yeah and all the people who voted for me at the Supervillian Smackdown - We almost conquered the world!
I got to meet and hang out with far too many people to name them all, talked to so many great writers again - always love spending time with Peter Beagle. Til next time!
6 comments:
Sounds like a fantastic time. :)
Definitely a "good time was had by all" kind of scene.
At least somebody named West is able to go to conventions this summer/fall. Glad you had a good time and made some contacts. I'm seeing a pattern here, though, with all these pictures of you and nubile young women. I must be attending the wrong cons...
Looking forward to seeing more posts from you here, as I'm not on Facebook and am intentionally staying away from Twitter because it turns into a huge time sink.
Thank guys!
Heh, and I didn't even post them all Keith!
Good stuff! Looks like you had a lot of fun!
Indeed I did Aaron, thanks!
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