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So I'm finally in a good mood with yesterday's electoral wins, so I thought I'd post about some fun stuff instead of how the world is on fire for once. As some of you know, I've been trying to slowly ease myself back into doing cons, and last year I did three. This year, as you recall, I already did Evercon last month, but that's just the beginning of my calendar.
I have four more shows that are booked and locked for 2025 so far, with the likelihood of a fifth. So that means in total I will be doing about twice the number of cons in 2025 than I did in 2024. We're effectively getting back to my pre-COVID schedule, even if the shows I'm booking are sometimes very different. It's nice to get out there again though, to engage with folks, and to be a part of the community again.
Before we get to in person events, I want to remind folks that this Saturday morning, April 5th, I'm doing a virtual event with the Critical Thinking Witch Collective. For their April Brew, which starts at 11am Eastern/10am Central, I'll be on a panel that should start about a half hour in with a few other folks where we're going to talk about book publishing. You can register for free if you want to attend! It should be really fun.
Anyways, here's my current schedule for the rest of the year (so far):Apr 26 Concinnity
Milwaukee, WI MSOE - Diercks Hall
Aug 2-3 Big Minneapolis Anime (Tabling w/ Ethan Flanagan)
Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Convention Center
Aug 9-10 Anime 414
Milwaukee, WI Baird Center
Sep 13 Eau Claire Comic Con
Eau Claire, WI Eau Claire Expo CenterI'm really excited for this schedule (and, again, I'm looking to add to it). Is it exactly what I wish I was doing? No - but it's still pretty good so I'm definitely not complaining.
2020 was supposed to be my year of conventions, but obviously the world fell apart (and a lot of those shows didn't survive). Ironically at the time I was looking to shift to promoting Nerd & Tie over just my own stuff (as UnCONventional had just wrapped), but I've since written multiple novels so I've been slipping back to myself. Ideally we'd be doing Nerd & Tie tables too, and I'm hoping to expand to that... but for now? It's nice to find my footing again.
Wow it's nice to feel occasionally hopeful.
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*Waits one year to see how big of a disaster the gophers are at Unagi Con next year.
Hmm. That seems a mistake on Jim’s part. Generally, you don’t want to leave the defeated an avenue to come right back to haunt you. If he could rustle up that kind of support, it’d seem he could just as easily oust her entirely.
He doesn’t want her in charge of anything anymore to punish her. But at the same time he also doesn’t want to lose the invaluable skills she gives to Unagi Con.
Look back at what he did with Garner when he was still the problem. (http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/06/basic-group-dynamics/)
“I may have to subtly break apart any clique he’s started to form, and distract him with some task to keep him in check.”
Jim may think he knows what he’s doing, because he’s been dealing with people like Garner for a decade. But I get the feeling that he doesn’t quite understand the depths of what he’s dealing with when trying to handle Lynn in the same way.
Lynn has already made a mistake. Jim is not mad about the Nazi-punching.
he’s mad about Lynn lying to his face.
I still find this the least mature route to go in this instance.
Its just as much work to come up with evidence and confront the individual about the fabrication. But because Jim is the way he is when it comes to confrontation, he has to handle it this way. Which I just don’t understand – its confrontation either way. Just confrontation he’s comfortable with.