By the time most of you will read this I will already be on the road to the 2007 Baltimore Comic-Con, which takes place near the inner-harbor in Baltimore. Once again I will be setting up with partners-in-crime Rich Henn and Rich Koslowski, with my last copies of Finders Keepers available for sale–and promotion.
The thing about this show compared to the San Diego Comic-Con is that the Baltimore Comic-Con is about comic books. This is a show for comic book readers who want to by comic booksBy the time most of you will read this I will already be on the road to the 2007 Baltimore Comic-Con, which takes place near the inner-harbor in Baltimore. Once again I will be setting up with partners-in-crime Rich Henn and Rich Koslowski, with my last copies of Finders Keepers available for sale–and promotion.
The thing about this show compared to the San Diego Comic-Con is that the Baltimore Comic-Con is about comic books. This is a show for comic book readers who want to by comic books and graphic novels, and meet the creators. Which is perfect for me, since I wrote Finders Keepers specifically with a comic-book style, with my target audience the same people who like comic books, and TV shows like Heroes and LOST, even before they were TV shows.
And there’s the scope. The San Diego show had about 100,000 attendees. The Baltimore show will probably have a few thousand. That’s still a lot of people, but it’s also more intimate and fun. San Diego is great, but it’s incredibly overwhelming. At the Baltimore show, you can talk more with the fans, because they’re there to interact with the creators. And I’ll also be selling copies of Timespell with co-creator Rich Henn, so that’s a natural hook–and segue–into Finders Keepers.
They’re likely won’t be any Hollywood-type agents and producers there, although you never know, so it’s also a bit more relaxing from that standpoint. It’s more fun because it’s more interactive with the fans, who are also there to spend money on our stuff! So that’s also great.
As with the San Diego show, I will blog throughout next week about my experiences in Baltimore, and will take pictures and get them posted as soon as I can. I’m hoping to be up again on Monday with lots of new tales about Finders Keepers …
Have a great weekend!
