Month: October 2007

Vault of Midnight release party pix, as promised!

There was a third one, and it was a really nice picture, but I had this smirk on my face that made me look like a snide jerk. So I’m not posting it.

Enjoy!

Photo one, courtesy of Steve at Vault:

Photo two, courtesy of Anne Murphy, is of me and Gwen and Jordan Marion (Jordan’s the wee tiny one):

I’m finally recuperated enough to write my SPX con-report, so here ’tis.

SPX has always been my favorite show, and this year was no exception. Paul and I and Jim Ottaviani all flew down early Friday morning and arrived just in time to set up for the show. Sales were brisk and the floor was crowded. I rather like the new hotel, as we have the benefit of all being in one big ballroom, and there’s also this really nice patio where I was able to sit and have lunch with Rich Watson on Saturday.

There’re some great restaurants nearby — we sampled two, the Vegetable Garden and a nearby Chinese Buffet. Both were outstanding, and the buffet was so good that we went back a second time.

Carla Speed McNeil quite kindly put us up at her house, ferried us back and forth, and fed us breakfast every morning while we played with her kids. It was a real treat to get to just hang out together for a while, without a table between us, or having to shout across a roomful of people. Thanks again, Carla. You rock.

Denise Sudell was also kind enough to run us to the airport at the end of the show, so we didn’t have to Metro it back for an hour and a half. Yay! Thanks to you too, Denise — and if you’re reading this, I have some great pix of you and Henry to share, but your email bounced. So write me!

The rest of the show would take a really long time to write out, so I’ll just let the pictures do the talkin’. Yay, SPX!

Hey you guys — check out this really sweet interview that Tim O’Shea did with me over at Silver Bullet Comicbooks. Tim was one of the very first people to ever interview me, lo these many years ago. He’s also one of the best people who’ve interviewed me — his questions are really thorough and inventive, and show that he not only reads my books but likes ’em. What better could you ask from an interviewer?

Go. Read. It’s good.