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Promotional consideration

By Bev Vincent, on December 17th, 2011

At every convention I’ve attended, there’s a table full of promotional items. These usually consist of postcards or bookmarks, but sometimes there are fliers or little gadgets intended to entice people into purchasing a product. Usually a book, in my experience. Everyone is clamoring for everyone else’s attention, and if you don’t have the weight [...]

Is Anybody Out There?

By Bev Vincent, on August 17th, 2011

NECon has come and gone for another year. It was a mix of the old and the new. Old faces and new. Familiar activities and new ones. Similar programming topics and contemporary ones. One thing I noticed with most of the panels—and I’ve observed this at other conventions as well—is that, for the most part, [...]

Six Things You Don’t Want To Do At A Genre Writing Convention

By Richard Dansky, on July 27th, 2011

1-Fail To Know Or Care Who’s Going To Be There

Complete and utter unfamiliarity with the folks you might be talking with and their work is always going to go over well. If someone’s a guest – or especially a Guest of Honor – it’s probably for a reason, and “they’re local and they know someone [...]

There are cons...and then there's NECon

By Bev Vincent, on July 17th, 2011

I’ve been going to writing conventions for a decade. I attended one local writers guild convention in the late 1990s (Joe R. Lansdale was a guest, which was a big draw). Then I resumed my long-fallow interest in writing and I wanted to start networking with other writers. My first big convention was the World [...]

A Taxing Situation

By Bev Vincent, on February 17th, 2011

Since I just finished doing my taxes, and I’ve seen more than the usual number of questions from writers who are wondering about how to handle writing income and what can be legitimately deducted, I thought I would dredge up and revamp my essay on the subject from five years ago.

I have a day job [...]

Contests? No contest.

By Bev Vincent, on November 17th, 2010

Some of my best successes in submitting short fiction have been by winning no-fee [...]

How far would you go for a critique?

By Bev Vincent, on September 17th, 2010

Lessons learned in the past concerning critique groups, and a new journey with another [...]

Why digital publishing didn't catch on 10 years ago--and why it might now.

By Bev Vincent, on August 17th, 2010

Ten years ago, publishers and agents thought digital publishing was going to take over the industry. It didn’t, but the advent of inexpensive book readers means that the digital format stands a better chance of succeeding this time [...]

VIRTUAL CONS—THE CONS OF THE FUTURE?

By John Rosenman, on May 13th, 2010

You don’t have to buy a ticket.

You don’t have to pack your bags.

You don’t have to drive a car or buy a plane ticket.

You don’t have to reserve a room in a fancy hotel, arrange for meals, or deal with packed and smelly crowds of people.

In fact, you don’t even have to brush your teeth, [...]

The Season of the Con

By Matt Forbeck, on July 20th, 2009

This week, I head out on my first convention of the summer season: Comic-Con. This is a mad media feast that has long since drifted away from its titular purpose of bringing together comic-book fans to collecting pop media fans of all types. Since I work in toys, games, and comics as well as fiction, [...]

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