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Crowds, bad. Home, pretty. Bed, good.

(apologies to Buffy)

Just crawling in from the costume event at Comic Con…James & I joined in the spirit of things and wore our costumes today. Or am I supposed to say we cosplayed today?

The only remotely writing thing I did today was talk writing with artist Nene Tina Thomas and her husband Steven C Plagman at their booth on the dealer floor about writing epic fantasy novels. She had an idea for an epic fantasy series, and her husband had an English degree that was gathering dust, so they got together and came up with the Zarryiostrom series.

Met someone else famous today…The original Iron Man direct from the 1880s…er, I guess he’s more Brass Man? Brass Iron Man? This oxymoron is making my brain hurt…I’ll just share the pict!

Recently I’ve perhaps been fudging in what I’ve entered under my Write-a-thon diary…But I think today I can count as a legit entry. I’m so excited to have been in the same room with many of my writing idols: Jim Butcher, Raymond Feist, Robin Hobb, George Martin, and last, but by no means least, Patrick Rothfuss! I even got up the courage to say hi to him. Robin and Raymond, too. I’m pretty sure this is what the word twitterpated is for!

Brent Weeks, Richard Kadrey, and Joe Abercrombie, authors on my to do list, were there, too. I had to hang out in the hall way for a while, but it was worth it…if only the panels were more than 50 minutes each!

(as I loosely call it this week!).

Oh my gosh, so much today. Godzilla, Dragons, LOTR, GOT, geeks, swag, Crowds, more crowds… Lightning fast registration so much better than last year. Had a conversation with a young guy crossing the street. James said,My People! Man I never get to talk about this stuff! They just don’t get it back home (at work). this Guy was a Hall H’er. You don’t get into Hall H. That’s where the good shows are. This guy waited in line from Sat night till the next day to get in. Only he had a plan! had the people in front of him hold his place in line. Went out drinking, and brought back pizza for his new line buddies. They slept on the grass, and they got in! Now that’s working the system. But I think the picture sums it up the day best.. Storm Troopers in a Smart Car! Honey, we have arrived!