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Conventional thinking: Darkon & ComiCon-Way after-action report

What a long, strange couple of weekends it’s been.

VWORP!1 + PDF

Last weekend I went to Darkon in Tulsa (a first-year horror-themed event put on by the folks behind Tulsa Trek Expo), and this weekend I was at another first-time event, ComiCon-Way in Conway, Arkansas. But more than just the latest stops on my tour of nearby conventions to promote VWORP!1, these were Little E’s first conventions. Whereas previous conventions were “daddy is gone this weekend,” now he wonders what we’re going to do, and what we’re going to see, next weekend. … Read more

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A request from your friendly neighborhood writer

I could lay a great big sob-story guilt trip on you about how hard it is to even begin to get within four billion light years of “making it” as a self-published author, but instead I’ll just throw out a few facts and figures. I’ll try not to take more than, oh, say, 45 or 50 minutes of your time with this. … Read more

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So about that book thing…

The GuideThe GuideI’ve been teasing a third book project in the works for a couple of weeks now, though at the time its general shape was still sort of coalescing in mid-air before my eyes. The skeleton of it has evolved to a point now where I feel comfortable enough to make an announcement. I think it’s safe to say that you’ll probably dig this if you even remotely liked VWORP!1. … Read more

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GlitchCon diary

Sellin' stuffThe first weekend of August saw my first attempt at running a vendor table at anything other than a video game convention (next year marks ten years of OVGE and ten years of me having a table at OVGE). The convention in question was heavy on anime and steampunk, though there was also a healthy science fiction contingent there, including authors such as Kevin J. Anderson (of Star Wars and Dune spinoff novel fame). A few days before the show, while looking over the vendor room layout, a light bulb went off over my head and I started looking up the other vendors online. Nobody with general sci-fi swag. I pretty much leaped into my closet and started hauling stuff out that could be sold.

While I was sitting at my table, I had my trusty MobilePro plugged in and charged, and was writing one of two things: a hasty “GlitchCon diary” of my observation and in-the-moment impressions, or slices and pieces of WARP!1 and/or VWORP!2. … Read more

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What is occurring?

Angel robot thingiesI haven’t been blogging very regularly, for which I apologize. Many things have been occurring.

Konsplosion was the weekend of August 17th/18th/19th in Fort Smith, and while I was there (in my first gig as a guest speaker) for all of two hours, it seemed pretty packed. In the weeks leading up to Konsplosion, I had a bit of difficulty getting the show’s organizers to respond to my multiple attempts to pitch myself as a guest speaker; I literally didn’t know until about 72 hours out if I was going or not. My presentations were outlined but not practiced in any way (every speech or drama teacher I’ve ever studied under will no doubt be revving up to about 3,000 RPM in their grave right about now), and then, to my horror, I got up in front of a crowded room and discovered that the outline I’d printed at home about 10 minutes before leaving the house… … Read more

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Achievement unlocked: GlitchCon 2012!

Thanks to friends and random strangers who have bought stuff from my recent rounds of eBay auctions, expenses have been met for theLogBook.com’s vendor booth at GlitchCon in Bentonville, August 3rd, 4th and 5th.

Glitchcon 2012
(Click here to learn more about GlitchCon)

The voices of Mario and Master Chief will be there (now there’s a mix for you), as well as Star Wars & Dune spinoff author Kevin J. Anderson, among many others. Judging by the photo gallery from last year’s event, the cosplaying at GlitchCon is near-legendary. The tagline for the show is “Sci-fi, anime, gaming, steampunk, and much more,” so just about any geek genes you have ought to be tickled here.

I’ll have copies of VWORP!1 and the Phosphor Dot Fossils DVDs at the show, and maybe a few goodies to show off too. See you there!

Another convention appearance closer to home after GlitchCon is also being discussed – stay tuned.… Read more

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On this day in history…

…at least according to the “on this day in history” plugin installed on my blawg, I made the earliest announcement of VWORP!1 (at the time, rather naively known as a potentially-thousand-page book simply called VWORP!), four years ago today.

VWORP! VWORP!1

(That’s funny and fitting: the earliest draft cover used the credit font from the Hartnell era; the completed, released cover uses something quite a bit more current. No, I didn’t plan that.)

These days I do silly things like announce that I’ll have two books of roughly the same size out in the next 18 years months. What can I say? I like a challenge. 😆 … Read more

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Moving right along…

VWORP!2I spent much of today working on the next two books, VWORP!2 and WARP!1. Really did more work on VWORP!2 (which is perversely appropriate, as it’s not the one that comes out first), but some of that work helps WARP!1 too, since both books are in a very similar format.

One of the things I did today was whip up a nifty little graphic for the Short Hops in VWORP!2. For those who have gotten VWORP!1, you already know that there are plenty of asides and stories that didn’t fit comfortably under discussion of particular episodes or seasons. In many cases they’re first-person stories of odd, and often humorous, ways that my life has intersected with Doctor Who down through the years. I decided that, for VWORP!2 and VWORP!3, I wanted the Short Hops interludes to “pop” a bit more, and have a little bit of a graphic signature. … Read more

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Pulling rank

Couple of things of note today…

KickThe beloved Kick machine sold this morning on eBay for the opening bid. No sweat there – I was happy for it to go for that much, and to a fellow arcade collector no less. I will just say that the buyer is based nearby, and I’m hoping I might be able to persuade them to bring it to OVGE one of these days. I’ll be extremely bummed to see it go – even when it hasn’t been working 100%, there’s just something about that bright, happy side art on the machine that takes the edge off of things a bit. A really happy guy (with a spiked helmet) riding a unicycle, popping balloons. If that doesn’t make you crack a smile every time you see it, I can’t help you. I’ll miss the machine though.

Other big news of the evening: VWORP!1 has apparently been chronicled in Howe’s Transcendental Toybox. Howe as in David J. Howe, co-author of all of the seven Doctor Who “Handbooks” (now out of print and hard to find) which I used as primary research material while writing the book. … Read more