In a couple of days I’ll be heading for Columbus, to attend ConText. My first time at this convention and it’s long overdue. I should have gone years ago. I attended another convention in Columbus once, at the suggestion of my then-publisher who had been invited as a publisher GoH. When we got there we realized that it was the wrong con for a book release party, which was what he had in mind. It was almost entirely a media con.
Leafing through the program book I came across an ad for ConText, with the tagline:
“The convention for those of us who actually read the stuff.”
Oops. Now I’ll make up for my negligence, even those this is not a great time for me to be going to conventions. I have nothing coming out, no books at least, and it’s been some time since my last one. (Yes, I’m working on it, I’m working on it.)
But this should be fun. One of my best friends is conducting a couple of workshops, as is a newer friend, and there are a couple of people there whom I’d like to meet and some others I haven’t seen in some time. We long ago started using conventions to keep up with friends.
This will be the beginning of a long fall of events. A lot of stuff happening.
End of this month, MadCon 2010. The week after that, Archon. The week after that, The Big Read (here, in Clayton, MO). On the 23rd, the Celebration of the Book.
As to that last, please consider attending. We’re doing a smaller one this year, but 2011 ought to be considerably larger. But we need to start building this up. The registration form is here. I’ll be blogging more about this as the time nears.
For now, I must clean house, choose clothes, brush up on my social skills (such as they are). I’ll say something about how it went when I return next week.