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This was my first Comic Con. My first convention as a seller and not just a fan. So if it seems a bit jumbled, that is why. And I have so many folks I need to thank, not just want to, but need to. So I will do them in the order I sort of met them. Hope it makes sense. I am still kind of tired but if I wait to do this, I will keep putting it off. I know me that well.
I would have to start with Captain Stacey Chance and his website, book and video: http://www.fearofflyinghelp.com/. May I suggest if you are afraid of flying that you check out this free course! Heck, it helped so much I slept on the flight home.
Not bad for someone who thought 90 Valium was not enough for two flights. And I didn?t need it! So thank you Captain Chance and the crews of both flights. Especially Captain Chuck and Captain Tom who were so nice and answered my questions with a smile! You made me feel so much better about my flight!
Thanks too to the folks who run Comic Con: Fay, Eddie, Sue, Beth, Vicki, the guys at Freeman on the loading dock and convention center staff. Some of you I didn?t get to see personally, just via email. Thanks for answering all my questions and making time to help us!
The staff at the Omni Hotel, especially those I never saw and got to say thanks to personally. You run a fine hotel and made the stay quite pleasant.
Okay, to the con itself! Thanks to everyone who stopped by. Even it if was just to say hi! It was so cool to put faces to names from the websites and board. I wish I had more time to chat with some of you. But Michelle, Mardy, Sunshine, Melissa, it was great to have time to chat with you and see you more than once! Jodi Israel, I am so sorry I lost your books! I swear I am going to replace them.
Erica Wedgewood, I won?t forget you work at Barnes and Noble in Montclair. I will be sending along some goodies to you!
To the kind gentlemen on the elevator who offered suggestions about my spraining my ankle on Friday. (Yes, I did it again, first thing before the convention opened on Friday I tripped and had to spend the day working on it, ouch!) You were right about what I should have done for it. If I didn?t say thank you then, I am now. I was so tired and in pain I truly wasn?t thinking well. But you were also very funny as well as sweet. So thank you very much. Do tell me how to sue myself though. That was truly amusing. Not sure if you were lawyers or doctors (do I owe you for a house call? Or is it a hotel call?)
So many names, and I don?t remember them all! Sorry. I may have to add later some more folks when I am less tired and the names resurface in my memory.
The convention would have been so much harder for me without the help of our booth mates: Mary, Derek, Anne Elizabeth (I am really looking forward to the release of your novel, do send me the release date!), Neil, Stephanie, Rachel. You made it more relaxing and your help was invaluable! We couldn?t have done it without you.
The IP Pavillion was filled with wonderful folks! Yes, I am going to say thank you to each of them and suggest everyone check out their comics and site. How better to say thank you? In addition to being very nice, some of them had the coolest stuff to browse through. Yes, I bought some stuff from them too.
Thanks to the guys over at Arsenic Lullaby Productions http://www.arseniclullabies.com/, especially Dan, for the loan of the box cutter. Note to self: next time don?t pack the box cutter in the boxes!
They guys over at Dreadfully Slick http://www.dreadfullyslick.com/info.html and Adhouse Books http://adhousebooks.com/. When our stuff slipped out of the booth and fell in to theirs, they never once complained, but brought it back cheerfully.
The Dreadfully Slick guys do the most amazing balloon sculptures. Still love the Star Trek Enterprise one. I even got a picture which will appear in the Gallery as soon as I have time.
Lastly, but far from least, Kevin Williams and Muley (who is both a puppet and a comic) http://muleyworld.inkedmonkey.com/. Who made me laugh even when I was tired and were highly entertaining! The caterpillar story for Muley is hilarious! I love Muley, even if he did throw me over for Anne Elizabeth on Saturday. ?
I got pictures of most of them with Sigmund who was wandering the con as much as possible. Pictures will follow on the main website: https://www.laurellkhamilton.com in the Gallery.
Jeannie Stein, thanks for the book! We got a chance too, to say thanks to the guys over at UnShelved for the comic. I got a lovely print, and now cannot think of the artist?s name! I had it a second ago, but had to ship it home so now I will have to wait till it arrives to name her. Rats! I hate when that happens.
I have some con shirts left over! Brett did us the most fantastic piece of artwork for the shirt. I will be putting those up in the coming weeks. I have to wait for them to come back so I can see what I have left. Once they are gone that is it for them! And the catalog will be made available. I left some at the house because so many folks asked for them who weren?t going. So look for those too.
It was fun, it was tiring, and some time, we hope to do it again. So thank you to everyone, thanks for the kindness and smiles when I needed them most. San Diego was lovely, what little I saw of it. But even the street vendors where nice.