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Jim at Phoenix ComiCon - June 5-8
Cenphx:
Yep! Live and work there. I work over by the downtown courts and live over in the Coronado neighborhood by the Barrio cafe. I'm about a 2 minute drive from the convention center! And I bought my signed copy of Cold Days from the Poisoned Pen where Jim will be doing the book signing!
So, howdy neighbor!! How excited about this are you? As I have no awesome costume, I will be the non-cool dork walking around in street clothes. Maybe we should see if any of the people from this forum want to actually meet up at the convention? Or is that weird?
OZ:
The Barrio Cafe has a few dishes that I really love. The poblano pepper stuffed with chicken, spices, nuts and fruit (garlic, onions, pecans, apricots. I think there are a few more) is really good. I think it would be fun to meet other forum members. I often see them talking about it at other conventions. I assume we will be seeing most if not all of Jim's panels so maybe we could arrange to meet before or after one of them.
OZ:
Oh, and for what it's worth I don't think I'll be dressed up either. There don't seem to be many roles for fat, balding middle aged men. I did threaten my daughter that I could wear a black wig and no shirt and claim to be Kull but she unfortunately has known me enough years not to be dismayed by my attempts at humor. She just laughs and says go for it.
sftv:
A quick update for you all.
First of all, yes, we are trying to make sure everyone who wants to see Jim will be able to get into his panels. His solo talk will be Saturday morning and in the ballroom at the Sheraton that seats around 1,500 (where we will have several of the author guest solo talks this year). One group panel will also be there on Friday. The rest will be in 500 seat rooms in the convention center, so those may reach capacity. There's been lots of going back and forth with other programming departments over who gets to use the bigger rooms and we think we have it sorted out now. Its really been a big jigsaw puzzle this year with the number of authors we have and as the schedule comes together, pieces get moved around so I've held off publishing the specific day/time for those that might still move.
We are planning to do a signing each day, but those haven't been finalized yet.
I do want to note that our membership projections have gone up and there is the possibility that memberships may end up capped. The price for the weekend does go up at midnight tonight, so if you want to save a few dollars, go for it.
We did announce some new guests of note, Paul and Storm, who will be doing a concert on Friday night with definite participation by John Scalzi and Pat Rothfuss (and possibly others). You may have seen their video with George R. R. Martin showing up called "Write Like the Wind".
Any other questions, post them here.
Lee Whiteside
Books and Authors Manager, Phoenix Comicon
Priscellie:
You ROCK, Lee!
I remember a NYCC a few years back, when they boneheadedly shoved a panel that had Jim Butcher, Brandon Sanderson, and four other immensely popular authors in a room that seated 200. Each one of those six authors could've filled that room five times over! And it was scheduled at the same time as the other amazing-sounding SFF author panel, featuring Seanan McGuire and other awesome people. There were a lot of disappointed fans at that con. I'm glad PHXCC knows its audience!
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