A Week in Writing # 532 - First Time at LightBox

Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing.

This past Saturday, yesterday, I attended the LightBox Expo in Pasadena with Paul and Trevor. They are old hats at attending, but this was my first time to go. If you've never been, the main floor is like a giant Artist Alley, with nice tables, etc., and from what I could tell original artwork, not glorified fan art that you find at many Cons. The emphasis, though, is on animation, so it's a chance to meet and talk to animators, character designers and some voice actors.

There were two panels that I wanted to attend, but was not able to get a ticket for. I know the excuse is to blame line management, but in this case, I think they're not very organized as you're told one thing will happen when something else does. We were told to come back in thirty minutes when they would have the line up but when we came back early, there were already too many people in line for us to get tickets. And, another time, someone from the Expo moved the line we were in only to abandon us and leave us out of the running for tickets.

But otherwise, we had a good time and did make some connections that we're hoping will turn into guests on our podcast.

Speaking of OAPS, this past Friday we had a conversation with Ramon Gil, a comic book writer, artist, creator and teacher about his career and the Neurodiversity Comic Con that's coming up on November 9 at the Gillen Brewer School in New York. Gil is curating the event. Powers Squared is a sponsor and while we won't be in attendance, we have donated a couple of our trades to be auctioned. You can listen to our conversation here or wait and watch it on YouTube on Wednesday at 2:30 pm PDT here.

And, on the subject of trades, I'm happy to announce that our first trade has made its bookstore debut at the Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe, Hawaii. So, if you're going to Kauai, please be sure to drop by.

On the subject of Powers Squared, some good work done, but no pages ready to share just yet.

My review of Island of Lost Souls was the Saturday Morning Review on Trophy Unlocked. I've been assigned to do the review of Elektra (2005), which we watched on Friday. Saturday night was a MS3K Night after all the walking at LightBox. While my review may have ended horror month, Resident Evil Month continues with Paul's review this past Wednesday, a Second Look - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard with more to come.

I've also been working, slowly it seems, through the rewrite of Skylar, but I am working on it most nights.

So, this coming week, more of that, my review of Elektra and work on the newsletter The Hound Dogs' Howl, which comes out next Sunday.

Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing and I'll see you next week.