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First con is even earlier!

I suppose I should be getting used to this by now: if I announce a date for something, it will change a few days later.

My first convention won’t be Phoenix Comicon anymore; it will be my second. I’m still going and I’ll be on the Urban Fantasy panel with Cherie Priest, and you can imagine the geekout I’m having about that since I love her work. But now there’s another convention I’ll be attending, and it’s just a sort of mind-blowing coincidence.

It’s called the LepreCon, and it’s being held from May 6-8 at the Tempe Mission Palms, right next to Rúla Búla. So let’s get this straight: there’s an Irish-themed fantasy convention being held the week I release a novel about an Irish Druid who likes to hang out at Rúla Búla, the best Irish pub ever? I can’t NOT go to that! There’s actually a scene in HAMMERED (book 3) that is set in the Tempe Mission Palms, so I’m kind of flabbergasted at the confluence of time and place for this convention.

I’ll be there on Saturday, May 7, participating in just one panel, and I’m seeing about setting up a reading too. If you can make it out, I’d love to see you there! But I’d really, really love to see you at the signing/reading I have set up at Changing Hands bookstore on May 9! Please see my Events & Appearances page for all the goodies.

Meanwhile, have you made a nerdscape yet? No? They’re EASY! You take one book (comic or otherwise), one action figure, and one item o’ junk food and arrange in a composition. If you wish to use more than one of any element, go right ahead! Take a picture. Mess with it in Photoshop or some other kind o’ software, then post with an epic title! Here’s one of mine:

One does not simply walk into Mordor and fight the Kindly Ones. Eomer sees Death coming for Dream and he tries to stave off the inevitable because that’s the kind of manly man o’ Rohan he is. Dream has that stubborn twinkle in his eye, though, that lets you know he’s going to keep on doing his thing and the series will eventually end. See? Nerdscapes are easy AND full of pathos. You should make one today and post it on your Facebook or something. If you haven’t “liked” me on Facebook yet, I do tend to post a bunch of wallpapers and stuff in there for people to have fun with. I’ve just started a Nerdscape album and will periodically add more as I make ’em. :) Cheers!