{"id":80,"date":"2015-08-17T20:43:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2015-08-17T20:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:43:19","slug":"my-writing-li-con2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"My Writing – LI-CON2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished selling and signing my books at my first convention.\u00a0 It was quite an experience, on many levels.\u00a0 My little table was squeezed in between an artist who was doing some sort of custom drawings of anime characters, and a graphics design professor doing a brisk business selling stickers for cellphones and laptops, again with characters I was not familiar with.\u00a0 A constant stream of Cosplay fans dressed as pixies, fairies, and goldilocks girls wandered by along with an intimidating Darth Vader and a really spooky Voodoo guy.\u00a0 Were the blue girls Smurfs, or something completely different?\u00a0 I have no idea.
\nThese strange, young creatures never stopped at my table.\u00a0 They just floated on past.\u00a0 Thick books full of physics, philosophy, and the nature of reality did not draw them in.\u00a0 My customers seemed to be the \u201colder\u201d crowd, those guys with t-shirts that mentioned \u201cquantum mechanics\u201d, \u201cSchroedinger\u2019s Cat\u201d, and \u201cHeisenberg\u201d.
\nNevertheless, I talked to some of the other authors in the dealers room, and learned some very interesting facts about the publishing business.\u00a0 Audio books seem to be a growth product, as the \u201colder\u201d crowd again, finds reading some small print difficult these days.\u00a0 I was also positioned across the room from a publisher who had a constant video trailer display for their books running on a flat screen tv.\u00a0 Very nice graphics, unfortunately I still can only draw stick-figures, and I doubt I have time to learn anything more artistic.\u00a0 Writing is hard enough!\u00a0 I spoke with one couple, who I thought at first were struggling self-published writers like myself.\u00a0 Ooops … they are very well known members of Science Fiction Writers of America, an organization I can\u2019t join until my sales are much, much bigger than they are now.\u00a0 Another author, with a very nice table display and a costume to match, writes about Cupid as a hit-man!
\nA special thanks goes to my wife for sitting next to me during this entire adventure, without a single complaint.\u00a0 Whether she will do it again or not, I can\u2019t say, but I appreciate the support this time.
\nNow, back to writing Perturbations Of The Reality Field<\/em> where I can control the strange characters that pass on by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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