Raven’s Adventures on the Hellmouth

OK, so I will get into my travelogue in a moment, but first I want to offer the readers of this newsletter access to paperback versions of the two most recent stories in the Blood & Ancient Scrolls series: one of which is only available this way, and the other isn’t actually officially published, yet!

IIP was giving out copies of “Finding Bela Lugosi” at Hellmouth, and if the ebook version just isn’t doing it for you, readers of this newsletter can also get the paperback version, which is only going to be available through this offer, or at in-person events.

If you want a FREE copy of the paperback, just for being a wonderful newsletter subscriber, I have about 50 copies that I brought home with me from Hellmouth, so email [email protected] with your preferred shipping address, and I will personally send it out to you. First come, first serve, so don’t put it off!

The other exceptionally cool thing that IIP did was to make up Hellmouth Exclusive Editions of That Lesbian Vampire Pirates Story—before it has been officially published! I got to take home the remaining 30 copies (they went like hot cakes – apparently the title had something to do with it, so thanks to all you newsletter readers who told me to just go ahead and use the working title! 😁)

If you want to buy one of the few remaining copies, here is the link:

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OK, with those vital topics taken care of, let’s get in to the tale itself…

With my chronic illness, travel really takes it out of me, so I am deeply lucky that I have a friend in the LA area who has a guest room and was supportive of me crashing out in it for a day before the convention.

So basically, I flew. I slept.

Ah, the deeply glamorous life of the chronically ill! You have to coordinate time for “rebuilding spoons” into travel. It’s annoying as fuck, but you cannot not do it because then you’ll just get somewhere and promptly be unable to do anything, which is not a fantastic plan either.

Moving on to the actually glamorous part: my panel with Amber Benson was on the first day of the Hellmouth (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) convention.

I did an hour of signing in the morning, then took a little time just to wander the Sunnydale High campus. The convention was just getting starting, so there was energy but not chaos, and there was a gorgeous cool breeze after the stifling vendor’s area in the gymnasium.

Seeing the familiar locations from the show was magical. It’s one of the things that sets this convention apart from others: being able to walk around a place that is such a vital part of the show.

This hour of just calm enjoyment was one of the wonderful parts of the weekend, but it was not the last, by far!

I then headed off to the green room to eat lunch and hang out with Maven of the Eventide who would be interviewing us, while waiting for Amber to arrive.

Amber got there and we were hustled off to the backstage area, to be announced and walk out to our places.

I’ve done panels at conventions before, but this was my first time walking out on-stage to applause for one. Which I realized as I was walking across the stage LOL. Happily, all those years of performing at ManRay and giving talks of all kinds came in handy, and I just rolled with it.

Maven will be posting the video of the panel, and I will get that link out to you ASAP. I can’t wait to see it myself, but also am secretly hoping I was as well-spoken and witty as I think I was… 😉

The next day was more book signings at the table, and wonderful interactions with existing readers and new friends. Some of those new friends have signed up to this newsletter, and welcome to all of you! Buffy fans are the bestest!

There were some important conversations with Amber and my publisher during this trip, and I will have some very exciting announcements to roll out to you in the coming weeks. There’s a lot of really cool stuff that will be happening with the series in the coming year, and I am so thrilled and can’t wait to share!

To everyone who made it this far, you’re fucking amazing and I adore you! Until next time, be good or be good at it! 😘

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