Had a blast at the convention, passed Peter Beagle on an escalator. He's the guy who wrote the novel, The Last Unicorn and between that and the 1982 cartoon movie is probably one of the inadvertant Founding Fathers of Bronyism. Also saw Jason David Frank, i.e. Tommy the Green Ranger, wore a cheap costume I bought from Party City which turned out to be a good thing as it got pooped on by pigeon (seriously, why do animals seem to have it in for me this summer?).

Also got to meet a number of sci-fi/fantasy authors, which led to some very awkward moments when I blurted out that I wrote and asked me what it was. I told them I wrote online for gallery-style sites like Deviantart, more or less the truth (except I haven't put anything on DA) minus a few specific details.

Even talked to Bill Holbrook, the creator of Kevin and Kell, giving me the weirdest urge to mention that I'd been inspired by his comic a decade ago to write a story about a human and a giant anthropomorphic fox falling in love online. Thankfully, I kept in check.

Sad as I am to see that it's over, I'm eager to get back to writing as I've been doing it for so long that going for more than a day or so (and it's been about four so far) without doing so gets me antsy. I'll get back to work on Upstaged now and hopefully have it done in a couple of weeks to make way for the novel-length story I'm working on that I want to end by November (because it's write-a-novel-in-a-month month even though I'll be technically be cheating by starting early).