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Stellar Con is now scheduled for February 22, 2025, at the Doubletree Hilton in Pikesville, MD. Only one day this go-round, but I’ve been at that venue before (Farpoint). It’s definitely a good venue, and I expect that business will be much brisker there than it was the year I did Farpoint (we were coming out of Covid, and foot traffic was way down*). I’ve already reserved a spot.

Moe Lane

*I’m actually asking myself whether to give Farpoint another shot. Not this year: vendor spots are already sold out. …Which is actually a good argument for putting myself on their waiting list. No cost to it.

There was a wee bit of trouble involving a lock box and Square reader back in Maryland, but that could be finessed with a quick trip to the bank and a Staples. The important thing is, we are here at Stellar Con York! Huzzah!

Not seen: 40 minutes of frantic mitigation protocols. But we are in business. pic.twitter.com/n6jUrEsNOM

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) June 15, 2024

Stellar Con prep tonight, Stellar Con tomorrow, travel back from Stellar Con Sunday. This is the first real vending I’ve done outside Maryland, so that’s going to be weird and new. Oh, and it’s Fathers Day, too. That’ll make Sunday a bit more complicated.

This one will probably be a bit of a heck ride. I’m driving up to York PA at the crack of dawn to make the event on June 15th, do Stellar Con all day, then crash overnight at the hotel and come back the next morning. So, sort of a convention, and also a little bit of a break for myself where I’m not on call for the evening. I’m looking forward to that.

Don’t know when they’re doing the Bel Air one again this year, though. That was a pretty good venue, last year: I’m hoping they do it again. I should have the new short story collection to sell by then, too.

There was a good selling. An excellent selling, in fact; I did even better than I did at the MD Renn Festival, although that was a single-day event and this was a two-day. I am definitely down for going back to Stellar Con in 2024, although I need to redo the table layout. I just have too many books to get them all in front and still have the banner on the table itself. A shelf seems like a good idea…

Sales yesterday were excellent. So much so, in fact, that if I wanted to just wander around and look at stuff instead of selling books Stellar Con would have been worth it. I’m going to sell books, though. Every one I sell is one I don’t have to cart home.

Working vacation, to be sure: I’ll be vending at Stellar Con tomorrow and Sunday. But I’m also not on call for anything. That means I can sleep in a little Sunday and still be able to ‘do’ the con.

But not very late: the event starts earlier than Fright Reads did. Still!