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

[topayz4.livejournal.com]

This year is going to be my first WorldCon, but I've been to a couple of Dragon*Cons and from what I've gathered I suspect the average con goer is different. WorldCon and WFC have people that like to read, it must or so many authors wouldn't be going. D*C and ComicCon have people that like SF in some way, but not generally the literary side. I was staff on one of the book related programming tracks at D*C and if we didn't have anyone interesting involved our room was just about empty. There are people that go to D*C just to wear around their costume and get pictures taken. It's huge and the book stuff gets a bit lost in it.

WorldCon and WFC are probably good places to meet people that are more likely to read your books. D*C and ComicCon are probably good places to get your name out to people who would never otherwise notice it.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. It sounds like a coin toss,