A Week in Writing # 549 - Getting Ready

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

This has really been a week of prep for SRCC Press going to San Diego Comic-Con. And it's busy and expensive to boot as it seems every day we need to buy something else.

The biggest item purchased this week were Exhibitor-Attendee badges for Trevor and my wife, Nancy. That allows them to be behind the table during exhibition hours, while Paul and I will be the Exhibitors allowing us early and late access to the floor. I wasn't sure if I could purchase them, but it worked when I tried.

I'm sure the Exhibitors Relations Office is really busy, but they are not all that communicative, but we'll get there and see what happens.

I'd like to say Ka-Blam came through and we received the books we'd ordered on Friday, which lifted a big load off my mind. I was a little worried when the first indication from the Post Office was this coming Monday by 9 pm, which would have been cutting it close to say the least. Now, I'm wondering if I ordered enough of the right stuff, but that's what we'll learn from tabling.

To help us get ready, we had artist Don Nguyen on our podcast, On the Air with Powers Squared. Don is a frequent exhibitor in Artist Alley and while he won't be there this year, we know that he has a lot of experience with SDCC. He gave us some good advice and led to a few additional purchases since Friday. Find out what he suggested when you listen to it here or watch it here for the next few days, and here, when it goes up on Wednesday.

Artist Julia Canon will be handling the podcast in our absence, so be sure to tune in on Friday at 6 pm on https://www.twitch.tv/powerssquared to be supportive.

Next week, though it will most likely be Monday, I'll be doing a Report from the Front, though I'm not sure at this point how many panels I'll be attending, or how exciting it will be reporting on tabling, but we'll find that out together. If you're reading this and attending SDCC, come by M-11 in Small Press and say hello.

We opted out of movies on Saturday night, so no new review from me, though I did manage to finish the one I was writing on 3 Bad Men; as always, not sure when it will appear. There were two new reviews on Trophy Unlocked  this week, Trevor's review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, on the anniversary of its release on Friday, and Paul's review of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was the Saturday Morning Review.

No new queries this week, as something had to get squeezed out of the way.

I did more editing on Blackmail, though the word count is still hovering just under 50,000 words. I don't want to promise I'll get much further this week, as we're going down on Tuesday to set up.

Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing, and I'll see you back here next week (unless I see you in San Diego).