After waiting two years, it finally arrived. Loscon 47: the year we were Fan Guests of Honor. We were very well treated. Normally we commute each day from home to the convention at the LAX Marriott, but the committee paid …
The con was fun. We are dead. details next week. Dennis Amador Cherry 88th blog completed. First Steampunk nov Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………………… But I did finally get my copy of Brandy June’s book, “Gold Spun”.
Still doing con prep, especially prep for the blood drive. That includes flyers, buttons, raffle tickets and a raffle ticket box. Kris is also getting her costume ready for the reading from her novel series, “The Dragonfly Chronicles”. And there …
Getting ready for the Loscon blood drive, but I’m not alone. Three years ago, the American Red Cross started putting ALL of its blood drives on their website so people could find the location nearest to them. This includes blood …
That was our slogan for our “As Seen On TV” themed blood drive. Every year Kris and I host the Loscon blood drive. Generally, we tie our theme to the theme of the convention. When Loscon had a steampunk theme, …
Genre LA ended yesterday. It was the 30th conference put on by West Coast Writers Conferences. Being virtual, it started Friday, October 22nd, and ran through Saturday, October 30th. On the weekends it was a full day of programming. On …
As a member of GLAWS, Kris and I were invited to this year’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards dinner. This is a worldwide contest for new writers and artists with the quarterly winners being published in the yearly …
Last week I mentioned that Kris and I are going to be the Fan Guests of Honor at the upcoming Loscon http://loscon.org/47/ this Thanksgiving weekend. As such, there are a number of events we will be partaking in. We will …
In GLAWS there is always a lot of talk about different paths to publishing: Traditional, Indi, Self-Publishing, Print-on-Demand, Kindle, etc. Ways of getting you work out there have become more diverse. Self-publishing used to be known as vanity publishing, but …
The year has been passing by fast. Now that we are in October, we are crashing towards Christmas. Of course, the shutdown doesn’t help. With fewer places to go, one week seems pretty much like the others. There are fewer …