{"id":2814,"date":"2007-08-05T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:29:00","slug":"walking-and-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/08\/05\/walking-and-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking and Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/RrU0xMIPlqI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/ufnFlOnN0Vg\/s1600-h\/IMG_0687.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_0687.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095036573113620130\" \/><\/a>Attending a science fiction convention while promoting something is a bit different from just hanging around for fun. \u00a0For one thing I was lugging around my carrying case, just in case I needed to whip out a copies of my books. \u00a0And I was constantly checking the Freebie tables to\u00a0replenish\u00a0the advertising cards I&#8217;d made for <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.lulu.com\/wirerimbooks\">Emperor Dad<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But this was a good-sized convention, and Saturday it was getting a little crowded. \u00a0I wore the button I had made in the dealer room. \u00a0(<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Buttons by Bouchard<\/span> scanned in my advertising card and made a couple of buttons for me. \u00a0Today, I ordered four more.) \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While I have been ill-prepared in some ways, not being ready to make deals and expand my infant commercial enterprise into Illinois, I have done a lot of talking to other authors and micropublishers that were farther up the learning tree than I am. \u00a0I&#8217;m getting a lot of ideas about what works, and what doesn&#8217;t &#8212; and what I&#8217;ve already done wrong. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m really looking forward to next weekend in Armadillocon where I can buttonhole the book experts (you know who you are) and ask all the difficult questions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending a science fiction convention while promoting something is a bit different from just hanging around for fun. \u00a0For one thing I was lugging around my carrying case, just in case I needed to whip out a copies of my books. \u00a0And I was constantly checking the Freebie tables to\u00a0replenish\u00a0the advertising cards I&#8217;d made for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/08\/05\/walking-and-talking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walking and Talking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_0687.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Jo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}