With the key difference being that in Brackett the locals won't gawk at you, run in fear, or worship you as the second coming. Well, maybe someone on Brackett might.
But I have seen Japanese people come out here on vacation. In fact they are quite nice and mind their own business and are quite polite. It's kind of funny weird when 2 different cultures clash.
Maybe the ETs want to learn up close what our culture is like. And because in broad daylight it would be to creepy to abduct people in the open, they abduct them at night. Plus Rednecks are poor and can't travel to Tokyo on their wages at said blue collar job. So when an alien offers to take them to outer space, they accept it because it's cheap travel.
Langland - look on a map where Brackett is. I picked it deliberately.
No one vacations there. It's a bar and some houses right off of I94 - but it's so insignificant that even though it's literally on the interstate, there is no exit.
So I'm finally in a good mood with yesterday's electoral wins, so I thought I'd post about some fun stuff instead of how the world is on fire for once. As some of you know, I've been trying to slowly ease myself back into doing cons, and last year I did three. This year, as you recall, I already did Evercon last month, but that's just the beginning of my calendar.
I have four more shows that are booked and locked for 2025 so far, with the likelihood of a fifth. So that means in total I will be doing about twice the number of cons in 2025 than I did in 2024. We're effectively getting back to my pre-COVID schedule, even if the shows I'm booking are sometimes very different. It's nice to get out there again though, to engage with folks, and to be a part of the community again.
Before we get to in person events, I want to remind folks that this Saturday morning, April 5th, I'm doing a virtual event with the Critical Thinking Witch Collective. For their April Brew, which starts at 11am Eastern/10am Central, I'll be on a panel that should start about a half hour in with a few other folks where we're going to talk about book publishing. You can register for free if you want to attend! It should be really fun.
Anyways, here's my current schedule for the rest of the year (so far):
Apr 26Concinnity Milwaukee, WI MSOE - Diercks Hall
I'm really excited for this schedule (and, again, I'm looking to add to it). Is it exactly what I wish I was doing? No - but it's still pretty good so I'm definitely not complaining.
2020 was supposed to be my year of conventions, but obviously the world fell apart (and a lot of those shows didn't survive). Ironically at the time I was looking to shift to promoting Nerd & Tie over just my own stuff (as UnCONventional had just wrapped), but I've since written multiple novels so I've been slipping back to myself. Ideally we'd be doing Nerd & Tie tables too, and I'm hoping to expand to that... but for now? It's nice to find my footing again.
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So I'm finally in a good mood with yesterday's electoral wins, so I thought I'd post about some fun stuff instead of how the world is on fire for once. As some of you know, I've been trying to slowly ease myself back into doing cons, and last year I did three. This year, as you recall, I already 
Maybe the ETs want to learn up close what our culture is like. And because in broad daylight it would be to creepy to abduct people in the open, they abduct them at night. Plus Rednecks are poor and can't travel to Tokyo on their wages at said blue collar job. So when an alien offers to take them to outer space, they accept it because it's cheap travel.
No one vacations there. It's a bar and some houses right off of I94 - but it's so insignificant that even though it's literally on the interstate, there is no exit.
That makes it less important than Foster.