Went to the Backstreet Boys concert at the Sphere last night…. between the crowd, surreally dressed in all white sparkles, and architecture with flashy glowing everywhere, it felt like literally walking into a nightmare I had about going to the Eras tour…
But that screen. Wow.
The Sphere’s screen is so gigantic and vivid that I literally couldn’t tell what was real at first, and when the concert actually started, the visuals of spaceships, space vistas, robots, and other trippy, futuristic vistas were truly incredible. What a wild, overwhelming ride.
Lines of fiction make a funny kind of souvenir — I remember writing specific lines at the beach, at various conventions, and even in Denmark. And sure, there are also lines inspired by those places, but there’s something special about the lines I actually wrote while traveling.
One of my favorite things about a convention as long as Trek to Vegas is that people will buy books early on, read them in the evenings, and then come back to tell me how much they loved them and buy even more books.
So, this is how I’m spending this week — selling a whole lot of books at Trek to Vegas — and it’s going well enough we’re planning to come back next year.
It’s really gratifying to get to be part of Star Trek — something that means so much to me — even in just the small way of being one of the vendors at this giant Star Trek convention.
Oh, by the way, CHESHIRE CAT CHARLATAN is out now! I’ve been too busy selling them in person at Trek to Vegas to get around to posting about it until now. But basically, picture Q as a Cheshire cat tormenting Picard as a Sphynx cat, and that’s the vibe of this book.
Also, I’ve learned from selling this book that there’s a not insignificant number of Cheshire cat fans out there. I’m glad to have provided a book for them!
Well, we’ve sold out of the SPACE HOUNDS! graphic novel, so we’ve ordered more for WorldCon in two weeks. Though, we do have one last set of the SPACE HOUNDS! comic books left.
I’ll definitely bring more copies next year, and possibly prioritize getting volume 2 done this fall.
One funny quirk of selling books at a Star Trek convention is that we’re in a room where most autographs come with a substantial price tag . As a result, people seem much more surprised and delighted when I offer to sign their books than I’m used to from other cons.