On October 5th, I will take part in the Halloween edition of ChiSeries Winnipeg alongside Eileen Bell and J.H. Moncrieff. We will be in the Travel Alcove at McNally Robinson Booksellers here in Winnipeg from 7:30 – 8:30pm. There will be readings of spooky stories and probably a Q and A. My plan is to read from Zombie Fight Night: Battles of the Dead.
On February 13 and 14 I attended C4’s first Horror Con here in Winnipeg at the RBC Convention Centre.
C4 has been around for a long, long time and has run multiple conventions, but this was their first horror one. To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect or if, from a tabling point-of-view, it would be a good venue for me. Sure, there was the obvious: I write monster fiction and that should do well at a horror show, but that doesn’t matter if nobody shows up.
Well, let me tell you, people did show up. A lot of people. I don’t know the exact numbers, but Saturday was hopping and there were times I had so many people getting books from me it was hard to keep up. There were a few lulls, but they didn’t last long and I was back to explaining my books, talking horror and having a good time.
My table:
Horror Con 2016 Table
On Saturday, I was on a panel for writing horror along with Chadwick Ginther and J.H. Moncrieff. It lasted about an hour and we talked about writing gore, going for the gross out, killing characters, that little nonsense thing called writer’s block, and a whole ton more.
The panel:
In order: Chadwick Ginther, J.H. Moncrieff, A.P. Fuchs
In the end, I’m pleased to report it was a very solid show, both in terms of fun and selling books. I was shocked because my total-books-sold tally was not far under all those copies moved at C4 last fall, the big show that I wait all year for and with an attendance of over 40,000 people. This certainly makes a point about niche marketing.
But all this book number junk aside, in the end, I was just glad to go, hang out with my convention friends and share in a common fandom.
On October 5th, I will take part in the Halloween edition of ChiSeries Winnipeg alongside Eileen Bell and J.H. Moncrieff. We will be in the Travel Alcove at McNally Robinson Booksellers here in Winnipeg from 7:30 – 8:30pm. There will be readings of spooky stories and probably a Q and A. My plan is to read from Zombie Fight Night: Battles of the Dead.
