WOOHOO I’m at SDCC! Shortly I will go in and buy ALL THE THINGS but first I thought I’d give you a few teaser pics of what I saw on the floor before it opened up to everyone at six. I got in early thanks to my spiffy publisher and got to walk around.
I got picked up from the airport in this hot little number:
Holy Frosty Yeti Titties, Batman! This is cool!
Nah. Just kidding. But this and several other Batmobiles were outside the Hilton Bayfront hotel where I’m staying, so naturally I had to go clickety-click. Want to see another one?
Purrrr. I wanna drive it.
So you walk in to the convention floor and WHAM HULK SMASH YOU PUNY NERD FRIEND OF BANNER!
Note: Gamma radiation will get you disqualified from the Summer Games in London.
They have ridiculously cool stuff here. Like Wampa hats. I think the Wampa hats are intended for children and I doubt they will fit my giant head but it’s my duty to try one on. They also have sweet replica Jedi stuff if you wanna practice your favorite galactic religion in style:
Light sabers not included.
And yeah they have some coasters that I think are necessary in my life. I just can’t see my wife letting me put them out anywhere. She is wonderful about tolerating my nerdery but sometimes I try to take it TOO FAR and putting Westeros coasters out in our living room would probably earn me a judo chop. BUT. Aren’t these cool?!?
Honestly I just want the Greyjoy one. I want to put my iced tea on top of a big kraken that says “We do not sow.”
Anyway, you get down to the Random House booth and you see this big poster of Rob Reid’s book that just came out Tuesday called YEAR ZERO. I blurbed it, y’all. It’s funny. Uncle Kevin says, “Read it.” And then there’s a big poster for this other guy who writes a series about an ancient Druid.
YEAR ZERO made me laugh out loud. You will like it or I will wear a hat advertising the Montgomery Biscuits.
Every time I see big posters of my books (which has been, uh, three times now) I feel astounded. Thank you all so much for reading and making my publisher feel that putting up a big poster of my books might be a Good Idea. It’s mind-blowing. Posters like this also make me miss my dad; he knew I was going to be published but never got to see it actually happen.
Biggest dilemma I now face is on Friday. There’s a CHEW panel at 2:30-3:30 and an Epic Fantasy panel at 3:30-4:30. I probably cannot attend them both. I will have to choose, and it’s TEARING ME APART with ultra trembly pathos like in that song by Jewel.
I’ll be going to Upstart Crow every morning for coffee because it’s insanely good. Looking forward to meeting lots of authors and geeking out on them. I’ll update with more pic-filled posts as I go, so check back!
Bacon is the Way and the Truth.
Tags: SDCC 2012
Fantastic, Kevin! Love the batmobiles! The huge Atticus poster rocks! Now the powers-that-be just need to recognize that they need to make a seriously rocking movie franchise out of the books (done correctly of course), and all will be right with the world. ;) Can’t wait for Two Ravens and Trapped this year, woot!
I would love to be there, it seems great, but not better than your novels; those are reaally great
oh oh Singer Dierks Bentley as Atticus in the movie… hmmmm and Rose Mcgowan…
Movie franchise whoo hoo here we come…
Sorry side tracked by the most awesome idea I’ve heard in AGES…
SDCC looks like fun.
I live 15 minutes from the convention center. I’m SO jealous of everyone who gets to meet you. Oh and all the other stuff too. ;-)
“Every time I see big posters of my books (which has been, uh, three times now) I feel astounded.” I know the feeling. When the Pope came to Baltimore, I was farmed out to the Archdiocese of Baltimore to get another staffer on the field at Camden Yards. When the commemorative book came out, yours truly had the cover photo of the Pope and Cardinal getting ready to embrace during the mass. Blew my mind when I saw the book in the front of the book store. I freely admit to sitting out in front of the book store during a lunch when it first came out and seeing if anyone picked it up to check it out. Here’s to many more large posters of your future books and I will be buying them as you write them.
I would so love to go to Comic Con! But they tend to be too far away from me, even with all the different versions I see! Any of them sound cool! And lots of kick ass authors are always in attendance as well!