A couple of questions

[ksmith]

Publishers are attending more media-oriented cons like DragonCon and ComicCon. Do they make more business sense for a writer to attend instead of Worldcon and WFC?

No clue--just wondering.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The thrust of ComicCon is toward Hollywood...and it's so damn huge that really, the only chance you;ve got to even see a publisher is if one asks ahead of time if you're going and do you want to get together.

I went to ComicCon two years ago, and apparently there were fifty thousand more people this year. It was so enormous my son and I walked half an hour solid before coming to the warehouse with the panel rooms down one corridor--the dealiers room took several hours just to skim through. (That's actually one of the biggest foci of the con.)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The hugeness is daunting. Unless you're someone like Anne McCaffrey or LK Hamilton and have entire swaths of programming devoted just to you... Getting lost must be the rule of the day.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I did have a backstage pass as I'm attached to a cartoon show (sorta and at the way possible bottom rung of any ladder, no, lower than that) but i didn't use it and go down there--couldn't afford it, didn't fancy the heat, and from the number of reports since ("Missed so and so, didn't see so and so, the line for X was so long I missed these panels...") I'm glad I didn't go.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Some folks posted photos--the art show gatherings looked like fun. But I think it's fun as long as you know people and have places to hang out. I wouldn't like to go there without knowing anyone.