I'm just back from a seven-day trip to sign books and do readings at Roswell's first
Cosmic-Con and Film Fest, which brought together artists, writers, filmmakers, and fans of fantasy, science fiction, and comics. I sold and signed several three-book sets of
WATERSPELL paperbacks and spoke with many interested readers about the
e-books.
Meeting other SF/F fans and readers was great fun. We had time to talk shop and share stories.
Almost everyone who stopped by my table owned an e-reader or planned to get one. Roswell also gave me a chance to spread the word about the free e-reader apps, downloadable from
Amazon and
Barnes & Noble, that let people read e-books on their computers and smartphones -- no Kindle (or Nook) required! For a list of FREE e-reader apps, please see my
earlier blog post about "How to Read E-Books Without an E-Reader Device."
Now for pictures! I was too focused on books to take many photos, but those below will show you some of what you missed at the
2012 Roswell Cosmic-Con. See you in New Mexico next year?
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| My table at Friday p.m. setup. The shell garlands were my niece Laura's idea. Pretty! |
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| Saturday morning, June 23, 2012 -- Opening ceremonies |
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| Ribbon-cutting to officially kick things off. |
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| Zombie flash mob. Run! |
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| Aliens, humans, and UFOs are welcome in Roswell. |
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| I got Bill Mumy's autograph! (He's all grown up now.) |
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| Some of my neighbors in Vendors Hall. |
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| His name is Robbie. Between battles, he visited my table. |
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| A lovely passerby. If you know her, send her this picture. It's perfect for her modeling portfolio. |
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| "Project 12" won Best Feature Film. I'm looking for it at Netflix. |
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| My neighbor, artist David Blair (http://www.zazzle.com/holidaliens), had an interesting Dark Side visitor at his table. |
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| On Monday after Cosmic-Con ended, I donated WATERSPELL paperbacks to the Roswell Public Library, which readers have described as a "ridiculously good library" for a town of Roswell's size. |
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| On the way home from Roswell, we stopped for coffee at the Smokestack Restaurant (http://www.smokestack.net/) in Thurber, Texas. This mural adorns the fence alongside the building. |
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Thanks for looking at my pictures! For more about the WATERSPELL fantasy trilogy, please visit
www.waterspell.net.
