The first-ever BookCon is this Saturday, May 31, and StarWarp Concepts will be there! Run by ReedPOP (the folks responsible for New York Comic Con), this one-day show is a spinoff of Book Expo America, the publishing industry’s annual tradeshow, and is the first time the doors are being widely opened to the general public. Big-name guests include Stan “The Man” Lee, Holly Black, John Grisham, R. L. Stine, and…Grumpy Cat? Really? Jeez, they’ll give anybody a book deal these days…
Booth #3061 is where you’ll find me and Richard C. White—author of the dark fantasy superhero graphic novel Troubleshooters, Incorporated: Night Stalkings and the digital pirate-fantasy comic The Chronicles of the Sea Dragon Special—promoting The ’Warp; as always, just look for the Pandora Zwieback banner. We’re right between Penguin Group’s Book Country and Publishers Weekly booths, and directly across the aisle from the booth for a novel titled Waiting for the Bomb.
BookCon is being held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, located at 655 W 34th Street, on Manhattan’s West Side. Show-floor hours are 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. (That’s right, the con is only six hours long, so be sure to get there on time.) For more information, including how to order tickets, head over to the BookCon Web site.