So I'm finally in a good mood with yesterday's electoral wins, so I thought I'd post about some fun stuff instead of how the world is on fire for once. As some of you know, I've been trying to slowly ease myself back into doing cons, and last year I did three. This year, as you recall, I already did Evercon last month, but that's just the beginning of my calendar.

I have four more shows that are booked and locked for 2025 so far, with the likelihood of a fifth. So that means in total I will be doing about twice the number of cons in 2025 than I did in 2024. We're effectively getting back to my pre-COVID schedule, even if the shows I'm booking are sometimes very different. It's nice to get out there again though, to engage with folks, and to be a part of the community again.

Before we get to in person events, I want to remind folks that this Saturday morning, April 5th, I'm doing a virtual event with the Critical Thinking Witch Collective. For their April Brew, which starts at 11am Eastern/10am Central, I'll be on a panel that should start about a half hour in with a few other folks where we're going to talk about book publishing. You can register for free if you want to attend! It should be really fun.

Anyways, here's my current schedule for the rest of the year (so far):

• Apr 26 Concinnity
  Milwaukee, WI MSOE - Diercks Hall
   
• Aug 2-3 Big Minneapolis Anime (Tabling w/ Ethan Flanagan)
  Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Convention Center
   
• Aug 9-10 Anime 414
  Milwaukee, WI Baird Center
   
• Sep 13 Eau Claire Comic Con
  Eau Claire, WI Eau Claire Expo Center

I'm really excited for this schedule (and, again, I'm looking to add to it). Is it exactly what I wish I was doing? No - but it's still pretty good so I'm definitely not complaining.

2020 was supposed to be my year of conventions, but obviously the world fell apart (and a lot of those shows didn't survive). Ironically at the time I was looking to shift to promoting Nerd & Tie over just my own stuff (as UnCONventional had just wrapped), but I've since written multiple novels so I've been slipping back to myself. Ideally we'd be doing Nerd & Tie tables too, and I'm hoping to expand to that... but for now? It's nice to find my footing again.

Wow it's nice to feel occasionally hopeful.