Oh, it's that time again.
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I have to say, last year at the Con was pretty much the suck for me personally. Sucking black hole void of suckage. Don't get me wrong. It was great to see the people I only see once a year. That's always great.
But between the free-floating anxiety of an impending move 500 miles from where I currently lived (to within a stone's throw of the in-laws), the sale of my home, an exploding water heater at 9pm on a Friday night when my car was towed and took nearly 4 bills to get out of the tow yard in the deserted part of town, and oh yeah, the collapse of publishing for STRANGEWAYS, SDCC2K6 was a hotbed of nervousness and gloom. It didn't help that everywhere I wandered the halls it seemed like people were just making stuff to sell to other people to announce how exotic and unusual they were without actually being exotic and unusual.
This year? Looks better, I guess. Though I'm still in a holding pattern waiting for Diamond to get back to me on the fate of MURDER MOON. Much longer and I'll just print the damn things to hand-sell them and run a chapter online to get some eyeballs latched onto it. You know, that "build an audience, get some hits and then get pushed out into the 'real' world" sort of thing. Have to say, it's wearing to have had the project done for so damn long and not out in the vast ocean of the monthly PREVIEWS catalog. But the love you take is equal to the love you make, or something. It's all building momentum, overcoming inertia, getting ready to roll down the ramp and squash the hapless archaeologist in its path.
Anyways instead of being maudlin and such, I wanted to share some of my fonder memories from SDCCs past. I'll post a few a day until I head down to the show in a couple days. In the meantime, gotta make sure previews are printed up (not wanting to hand out ones announcing the title coming out from Speakeasy in 2005 any longer.)