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Gah! Last-Minute Cancellation!

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MinCon-logoHey, folks, just a quick note to say I’ve had to cancel my appearance at this year’s MinCon, which takes place tomorrow at the Mineola Memorial Library.

I’ve got a growing pile of freelance work on my desk and it reached the tipping point yesterday, and made me realize I needed to focus on clearing that up this weekend. Sorry about that!

Even though StarWarp Concepts won’t be at the show, be sure to stop by the table of my friends J.D. Calderon and Daphne Lage, the creative team behind fantasy indie publishing house Dream Weaver Press. J.D. is the writer/creator of The Oswald Chronicles—about the adventures of a sorcerous mouse—and the cocreator of the anthropomorphic epic fantasy comic Tall Tails. Daphne is the cocreator and artist of Tall Tails.

For more information on the show, visit the MinCon website. And since it’s held every two years, hopefully I’ll see you there in 2021!

MinCon 2019 Is This Weekend!

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MinCon-logoSummertime and convention season are both in full swing, and so it’s time for StarWarp Concepts to hit the road and meet the public. Sure, it’s been a few years since the SWC crew has made a con appearance (was Big Apple Con really three years ago?), but I think we still remember how to set-up and take down our vending material. It’s just throwing stuff in boxes, right?

Anyway, our first stop is MinCon, being held this coming Saturday, July 13, at the Mineola Memorial Library out on Long Island.

You’ll find the StarWarp Concepts crew stationed at one of the vendor tables, hawking some of our popular titles, including our latest release: Richard C. White’s noir-dark fantasy collection, Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase. I’m not sure where exactly we’ll be placed, so come find us!

And since MinCon is a family-oriented show, we’ll even have stuff for superhero fans—specifically, The Bob Larkin Sketchbook, which features Bob’s pencils for various superhero projects, and copies of my X-Men: The Chaos Engine trilogy of novels, the Sunn young-adult graphic novel I wrote, and the Untold Tales of Spider-Man anthology I contributed to (all while supplies last).

The Mineola Memorial Library is located at 195 Marcellus Road, in Mineola Memorial Park. For more information, visit the MinCon website.

Down the Convention Path We Go…

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As I mentioned back in the January 7 post, in addition to the long-awaited release of the third Pan novel, Blood & Iron, Pan’s publisher, StarWarp Concepts (in other words, me), is making plans for convention appearances this year—the first time we’ve been on the road since…let me check…March 2016, at the Big Apple Con in Manhattan. So that means we’re long overdue for going adventuring—join us, won’t you?

We’ve currently got two venues locked in: MinCon in July, and CT Horrorfest in September, with others to come.

MinCon is a one-day show held every two years at the Mineola Memorial Library in Mineola, New York (located on Long Island), “celebrating comics, fantasy, science fiction, gaming, and anime,” as their site says. This year, it’s being held on Saturday, July 13; you’ll find the SWC table somewhere among the stacks of library books—I’ll let you know exactly where as soon as I find out.

CT Horrorfest is Connecticut’s sole horror convention, and this one-day gathering of monster kids keeps getting bigger every year. In 2019 it’s being held on September 14 at the Naugatuck Event Center in the town of Naugatuck (located in New Haven County), right at the corner of Rubber Avenue and…Elm Street?! Huh. I’m probably gonna need one of those clicker-counter things to keep track of all the Freddy Kruegers sure to show up for photo ops…

More information on both shows—and other convention appearances—as the information becomes available!

(Photo by Karen Arnold, courtesy of Public Domain Pictures)