Rhapsodies

Well it’s done.

And while I’m relieved and exhausted I will admit to have had a good time and despite the final day being utterly insane I shall chalk it up as a success. It started with not being able to reach my assistant. I hadn’t gotten a comfirmation from him the day before and had left emails and messages for him but had not gotten any reply. I tried to call him (and frankly it’s hard not to feel like a jerk calling someone at seven o clock in the morning) and only got his mother who didn’t seem to understand what the situation was. I had no choice to go to the con on schedule though I made a point of traveling lite as i had a bad feeling I’d be the only person carrying my gear home. When I arrived at the convention center I waited downstairs by the fountain on the off chance he had received my message but had just not gotten back to me… no luck. I tried to call a few other times but still no luck. I had no choice but to get on with the day.

All in all the day went well considering Sundays at a con tend to be a bit slower I had lowered my prices a bit and ended up having three sales. This means that this was my most successful con yet relatively speaking. Unfortunately I was unable to get out and network being stuck at my table all day. But i still passed out a whole lot of cards and think I got the word out fairly well. Thankfully I was able to get everything home on my own even though it was tedious at best. (a backpack full of five foot long plastic tubing is… comic)

In hindsight I have a few things to think about for future cons. I need to come up with merchandise items besides the books and they need to be cheap so people will buy them on impulse. I’ve been thinking of a few poster ideas and am still considering stickers and buttons. As for the book the one thing that had become painfully obvious was that the only title that was really selling was the first book. Which is kind of embarrassing for me as the art shows it’s age pretty badly. Still I can undersatnd that and because of this I think I should focus on a new addition rather than newer volumes.