Green Bandit Press

I was listening to Pandora tonight when this song came on:

Not that rendition of it. Some sort of dubstep remix or something.

But I was overwhelmed with the urge to purchase diamonds. Despite the fact that I am very against diamonds, as is my wife, who would look at me very unhappily and make a “Marge-noise” if I gave her jewelry with diamonds. She would most likely suspect that I had been kidnapped and an android doppelgänger had been sent in my place to impersonate me.

In any event, it’s an interesting study in how music affects us and how effective marketing can be. I did not expect my brain to bring up a diamonds commercial while I was trying to write.

It took me longer to recover from TusCon than I thought it would. That’s okay. Some day life will intervene, and I won’t be posting at all for a while, and if my posting is regular now then it’ll make that day easier for you all to spot.

TusCon was a blast. I met lots of great new people, and actually made a few sales! Who knew anyone would like my work?

My only criticism was the the size. I didn’t discover until about a month before the convention that they deliberately limit the attendance to 500 to keep it “intimate.” And it was intimate. And I do feel like I got to know some people better than I would have if attendance had been, say, two or three times that number.

But the other thing I didn’t know until shortly before the convention was that, a week earlier, Tucson Comic-Con was happening. Somehow, in all my research of conventions in Arizona, “Tucson Comic-Con” never came up. Granted, it’s not as established as TusCon, being only 5 years old this year instead of 39.

But that got me to thinking. I spent the week leading up to TusCon in Tucson, getting ready. A lot of it was stuff I could have done well in advance, but hadn’t. Like getting licensed to do business in Tucson. Now that I know how all this stuff works, perhaps… perhaps I could travel to Tuscon Comic-Con, and then do TusCon, staying the week in between? Obviously the biggest problem with this plan is that I have no idea whether the two conventions will be so close together next year. For all I know, they’ll overlap.

By the beginning of next week, I hope to have a store up on this site so that you all out there in internet land can peruse my overstock. Some of it’s pretty cool. What I have the most of is hard copies of short stories that are continuations from “Little Lost Dogs.” Let me know whether you’re interested!

And don’t forget, “Little Lost Dogs” is now available in eBook form!

Day two of TusCon 39 was just as satisfying as day one, and slightly more monetarily profitable. There were many costumes that I still failed to get decent pictures of. There were many Tom Baker scarves worn independently from any recognizable costume (including one worn along with a kilt). This trend continues today, on the 3rd and final day of the convention.

Some of you reading this today may, in fact, have met me over the last two days, and if so, I welcome you to the site!

I’ll post a complete con report after I return home, but I see my best customer from yesterday approach.

Later!

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Don’t forget “Little Lost Dogs” is now available for Kindle and Nook!

It’s late, I’m exhausted, but I had a blast at the first day of TusCon39. I spoke with so many kind, intelligent, awesome people this afternoon. I met Steve Martindale, who, according to himself and Wikipedia, invented the term “technomancy.”

I can see why so many people at this convention are returners. They appear to have a film festival going all night! There’s some great and original cosplay. The hospitality suite is excellent (though perhaps not quite as excellent as one I remember from North America Disc World Convention in 2009). I did not get a chance to visit any of the panels, but I heard a lot of good things.

I’m just an independent, self-published author, but I was treated with kindness and respect by the convention staff.

And a guy dressed as Harry Dresden told me that Jim Butcher may be returning to TusCon next year….

More tomorrow!

PS: You know some kind of late night shenanigans are about to ensue when you hear a car door slam at one end of the alley, and then the sound of running footsteps coming from the other end, accompanied by a voice shouting “Wait! Wait! Wait wait wait!” Maybe Harold & Kumar are going to Nogales?

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Don’t forget “Little Lost Dogs” is now available for Kindle and Nook!

It’s Monday night, November 5th. That means:

• There are fewer than nine hours before the polls open here in Arizona
• There are fewer than twenty-two hours before the polls close here in Arizona
• This time tomorrow night I’ll most likely be drinking to celebrate, drinking to drown my sorrows, or drinking because there’s still no clear election results
• There are fewer than four days left until TusCon, the very first Convention where Green Bandit Press will have a booth!

As I write this, my lovely wife has already fallen asleep. Not hundreds of miles away as she was the last time I blogged, but beside me. She’ll most likely wake up when I close the computer and turn off the lights. It feels good to be in the same house again. Tomorrow we vote here in Flagstaff, then high-tail it down to Tucson to prepare for the convention.

This site may go down for a bit in the next few days, or start looking really funny, as I try to make it look a bit more presentable for the convention. I also plan to roll out a few more items of interest between now and Friday afternoon when the Convention gets underway.

Good night.

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Don’t forget “Little Lost Dogs” is now available for Kindle and Nook!

Happy Halloween to all my readers!

I must admit, though I often have grand plans for a costume, I usually end up throwing something together at the last minute. Tonight, a certain national burrito chain is giving $2 boo-ritos for those in costume, so I can’t just skip it.

When my wife and I moved into this house from an apartment, we figured we’d finally start getting trick-or-treaters. We didn’t exactly count on how early it gets dark this time of year. We know there are kids around, but by the time either of us is home from work, we’re pretty sure most of them have passed us by. Last year we put out a bowl of candy before leaving for the day. Some of it did disappear before we got home, but most of disappeared… later… when there were only really two suspects.

So, tonight, I guess I’ll leave the lights off, and come home in the dark. I don’t have any candy to hand out, and my wife, who will no doubt make me feel the shame I deserve for not putting candy out, is in Tucson this week.

So, Happy Halloween, everyone.

And don’t forget you can now purchase “Little Lost Dogs” for Kindle and Nook!

Edited to add this awesomeness: