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Back from Galactic Con!

…Well, first I had dinner. And a nap that was surprisingly hard to wake up from. And then I drifted along for a bit, until it was time for me to buckle down and work on things. So this is a little delayed.

Anyway, Galactic Con went fine, in the sense that I made the table fee back. And I like it as a venue. But I gotta start finding book festivals. Heck, at this rate it almost feels like I need to start one (I am absolutely not going to start one). So: news on good venues in Maryland would be welcome.

Galactic Con tomorrow! (And I need a source for upcoming conventions.)

Everything’s packed up except for one bag for Galactic Con. If you’re in Howard County (Howard County Fairgrounds, 10 AM – 6 PM), come on by! Buy a book! Heck, buy them all so that I won’t have to lug anything home.

Also: I need a good ongoing resource for Maryland conventions and book fairs. Preferably the ones that don’t charge extremely large sums of money for tables. I’m not yet playing at that level.

Check out Flying Koala’s space at Galactic Con!

Galactic Con! Located at the Howard County Fairgrounds (2210 Fairgrounds Road, West Friendship, MD 21794), June 11, 2022. 10 AM to 4 PM. $10 to get in; $20 for families. Flying Koala will have a table fairly near the replica ECTO-`1, which is always nice to have as a draw.

Come by and check my table out! Or just buy my books now. That works, too.

#commissionearned

So, obviously, back from Balticon.

I didn’t quite make back the table fee, which was a disappointment. Even if I had, the parking fee (while reasonable for four days) would have been a bridge too far, as it were. I don’t think I’m really able to justify total convention fees above a hundred bucks at the moment*.

On the bright side: Galactic Con is in two weeks, and I’m pretty sure I can hustle enough to pay for the table. After that? We’ll see. Retail’s tougher than it looks.

Moe Lane

*It’s a shame, though. I did sell a bunch of TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION. People seemed receptive to the idea of ‘buy this book of short stories to see whether you like the concept,’ especially at a ten buck price point. I’m going to work with that in the future. I’m also going to have links to the artists’ websites on the table, which I should have been doing all along.

#commissionearned

Book vending schedule, 2022.

This is so far:

  • Balticon (May 28-30). The convention starts Friday, but I’ll be there Saturday. Probably will commute, because the hotel’s expensive and it’s an easy drive for me.
  • Galactic Con (tentative) (June 11). This one is a day-trip, and I haven’t gotten it confirmed yet. Hoping to have TINSEL RAIN published at that point, but I probably won’t have the print books.
  • Fright Reads (October 1). Will have TINSEL RAIN in print by then! Hopefully. Maybe other stuff.

As you can see, I have room in the schedule for July-September. I’ll be keeping an eye out for other prospective vending venues.

Back from Galactic Con!

Short version: very useful information was gathered and I sold enough books to make back my table fee. Actually doing it gave me some insights on the entire process, I got a bunch of business cards and hopefully new readers out of it, and I now appreciate the value of art in a display. Notes were taken. Lessons were learned. I had a good time.

And man, but I am tired.

Moe Lane

PS: My Amazon site is here, in case somebody’s using one of those business cards to check me out now.

Car is loaded for Galactic Con tomorrow!

Got some prints of the book cover made and a few last-minute bits of gear. Car is loaded up and ready to drive in the morning, and now I get to go to Galactic Con and… try to sell books to people I don’t know. Yay.

I assume I’ll sell something: the books are priced to go. If I unload about… half of them, I’ll break even. Not to mention the business cards and so forth I’ll be passing out. But my comfort zone, inside this is not.

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, it’ll probably be fine.