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Marshall S Thomas
Awareness Member
Post Number:
36
Registered: 07-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 07:36 am: |   |
Hello gang!
Just FYI, I plan on attending the Balticon science fiction/fantasy convention 28-31 May 04 at the Baltimore, Md, Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor hotel. This one is considered a biggie for SF types. I've taken out an ad for my book in a con-zine and will be selling book copies and spreading propaganda during the event.
Will anybody from this forum be there? If so please let me know. I'd love to get together.
Incidentally I missed the SheVaCon in Roanoke. My wife had a bad reaction to some antibiotics her doc had prescribed and she had to go to the emergency room so I cancelled the Roanoke trip. She's OK now.
Best wishes to all. See you at Balticon?
Regards, Marshall |
Marshall S Thomas
Awareness Member
Post Number:
37
Registered: 07-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 08:22 pm: | |
Hello All!
I'm back from Balticon! Here's my reaction (taken from my website).
Comments on Balticon 38:
The author (that’s me!) attended the Balticon 38 SF/Fantasy convention from 28 to 31 May 04 at the Wyndham Hotel in Baltimore. This was my first big con. It was well-attended, eventful and quite well organized, at least in my opinion. I spent most of my time in the dealer’s room selling copies of my book and the audio CD’s. There was plenty of interest and I sold out what I had brought. My thanks to everyone who bought the book and CD’s. I hope you like the story and I’d love to get feedback. andrion2@soldierofthelegion.com
I also did a reading of excerpts from Soldier of the Legion. I tend to get carried away when reading but I did get applause so I guess the audience liked it. I later did a panel with two other SF writers on whether or not modern science and technology was getting too complex for us poor SF authors. You can imagine what our opinion was on that. Our panel attracted a big crowd; we ran out of chairs and people were standing in the doorway. I’m not sure what the attraction was – perhaps they thought it was a panel about sex with aliens, but anyway we had fun with our subject and so did the audience.
My thanks to everyone who organized Balticon. I brought my wife and younger son and they both had fun. Special thanks to Tee Morris, Tony Ruggiero and Danielle Ackley-McPhail, fellow writers who sat with me in the Dealer’s Room and showed me how to sell books. Tee is the master book seller. He uses an awesome technique called “full contact selling” which employs everything short of physical violence to detain, bewitch, hypnotize and fascinate a potential customer and get him/her to buy the book. I tend to be a little more laid back, which is probably why he sells more books than I do. Thanks also to Mike and Cate Pederson of the Nth Degree, the con zine that carried my ad for Soldier of the Legion. They also attended, and it was good to meet them in person.
Balticon was fun! Hopefully I’ll do it again next year.
Regards to all on Mindsight, from Marshall
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Stacy Anderson
Awareness Member
Post Number:
44
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 01:08 am: | |
That's great, Marshall! I'm glad it worked out for you.
Stacy |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
3076
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 05:32 am: | |
Thanks for that great report, Marshall. I love Baltimore. Wish I could have been there to see you in action. |
Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1762
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 06:30 am: | |
sounds like it was a successful conference all the way around. congrats Marshall.
Kitty |
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