{"id":119,"date":"2011-11-01T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-11-01T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:10:49","slug":"nycc-sunday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"NYCC–Sunday fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hadn\u2019t actually planned on writing about specific days, but Sunday was full of awesome.<\/p>\n

Like I said before, there\u2019d been tentative plans made Saturday night to meet up with Garrett, Priscilla, and Pam, or at least meet up after the con to go to Big Gay Ice Cream.\u00a0 But we didn\u2019t hear from them until after we were on the train home.<\/p>\n

But, that was okay. \u00a0We expected to spend the day alone, but that actually didn’t happen. And the day was so much the better for it.<\/p>\n

We started Sunday in the cattle-herding line, and once we got to the show floor, we stopped briefly at the Monarch booth before looking at vendors.\u00a0 We\u2019d waited until Sunday so that we\u2019d have less to carry around.\u00a0 That mostly worked.<\/p>\n

The first booth we stopped at was the Doctor Who booth.\u00a0 Ian McNiece, who played Churchill, was signing, but we didn\u2019t try to get anything from him because of the huge crush of people.\u00a0 We planned to go back, but didn\u2019t make it.\u00a0 I did get an awesome picture of the Ironside Dalek, though.\u00a0 And at the store I bought a plush Adipose.\u00a0 Cause those things are just cute.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There were a couple other booths we stopped at, but we didn\u2019t buy anything. We wandered around, passed the publishers and got a few more books, and headed for the open space by Her Universe.<\/p>\n

We were able to get something of a cell signal there, but we hadn\u2019t heard from anyone.\u00a0 I was waiting to hear from Kiera, or waiting until I thought she\u2019d be around to text her, because we had a bag we were told to give back to her.<\/p>\n

At that point, Rob reminded me that CE Murphy was at the Harlequin booth and found the location, and we headed over there before she left.<\/p>\n

When we got there, we met CE Murphy. \u00a0Awesome. \u00a0Even more awesome? \u00a0Kiera was there, too. \u00a0And we got to meet her friend Robin. \u00a0Kiera got the coolest picture of CE Murphy, but I’m not sure where it is that I could link to it. \u00a0We gave Kiera her bag and it\u2019s contents\u2014OMGdelicious peanut butter chocolate chip bars (there were cookies, but Ben had taken them with him)-and she pulled the tub out and opened it to share.<\/p>\n

We talked for a bit, then CE Murphy had to go.\u00a0 She was looking for Anton Strout to meet him, so Rob and I told her what we thought the likeliest places to find him would be, although we weren\u2019t certain he was there.<\/p>\n

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Isn't it pretty?<\/p><\/div>\n

We stayed with Kiera and Robin, and we followed them to Artist Alley where, I think, Kiera got a piece of artwork for Robin<\/del>\u00a0April.\u00a0 While we were there, Kiera remembered the bracelets she\u2019d made us and helped us put them on\u2014Yay!\u00a0 I never wore bracelets until she made me one, now I wear both every day.\u00a0 Except for Sunday, when I do laundry.\u00a0 She also let us try her Warrior crunch granola\u2014so good.\u00a0 She got me S\u2019mores granola, which I haven\u2019t opened yet.\u00a0 Kiera suggested trying it in strawberry Greek yogurt, and I keep forgetting to get some.\u00a0 Plus I know that as soon as I open that package, it won\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n

When it comes to food, I\u2019ll trust whatever Kiera tells me, few questions asked.<\/p>\n

We stood talking for a while, then headed back toward the publishers\u2019 booths.\u00a0 We circled them a couple times, picking up free samples and books.\u00a0 Kiera bought a knitting book with some neat stuff in it\u2014a scarf with blood dripping from the ends, a corset\u2014and she discovered the ticket Del Rey gave out for free books.\u00a0 She got her free books and went back to the Del Rey store and bought a couple other books\u2014the Homecoming graphic novel and I forget the other\u2014and got more free books.<\/p>\n

After she got those free books, we stood by the booth, and someone, Robin maybe?, suggested Kiera try trading the peanut butter bars for more free books.\u00a0 Kiera told me to try, but I knew I wouldn\u2019t be good at it, so I told Rob to.\u00a0 And he pitched like a pro, pulling out the container and opening it for the woman (George RR Martin\u2019s editor, I believe) to try.\u00a0 She had one and started pulling out books for Kiera before finishing it.\u00a0 We left the entire tub with her, and Kiera put the books in the now empty bag.<\/p>\n

From there we went to the audiobook booth and got more free samples, and we found out they would be giving away audiobooks later in the day.\u00a0 We then got in the line for the Patricia Briggs signing.\u00a0 Kiera got cheesy pictures of me and Rob, and I think she purred almost the entire time we were in line because Robin kept massaging her back.<\/p>\n

This was the second time Rob and I\u00a0 got a book signed by Patricia, and she remembered us this time.\u00a0 Or at least asked if we\u2019d met before because we looked familiar.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We started back around toward the Del Rey booth, and we ran into Ben.\u00a0 That was when we found out that he\u2019d taken all the cookies with him.\u00a0 Just after he left us, we ran into Myke Cole and two of his friends (both also military).\u00a0 They had stopped by the Del Rey booth because Myke wanted his friends to watch the Old Republic trailer\u2014Del Rey had a TV sets up showing book and game trailers.<\/p>\n

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Military men watching the TOR trailer<\/p><\/div>\n

It was fun to watch Myke not in author mode but geek fan mode.\u00a0 Kiera and I got some good pictures of them watching the trailers.\u00a0 He gave Kiera his card and asked her to send him her pics, and, I think, after she complained we didn\u2019t tell her about his ARC signing, I believe I heard him tell her to email him about that to see if his publicist could get one for her.<\/p>\n

They watched two trailers, then they headed toward, I think, the Star Wars books booth\u2014I think they were going to see Drew Karpyshan. \u00a0 I could be wrong.\u00a0 All the little details blur together, and I mostly remember the pictures.<\/p>\n

By then, it was 4:30\u2014time to go to the audiobook booth.\u00a0 And while we waited in line for that, the HarperCollins booth was giving away one book to a person.\u00a0 Rob and I got some comic books.\u00a0 One a black and white thing, and one called like Clockwork Girl, or something like that.\u00a0 Kiera said it\u2019s actually good.<\/p>\n

The line moved, and Rob had wanted to get Ready Player One, but said the guy in front of him picked it up, so he grabbed the Zombie Survival Guide.\u00a0 I got the 20th<\/sup> anniversary edition Heir to the Empire.\u00a0 Kiera had been making grabby hands at the newest Rick Riordan-Son of Neptune-not actually released until the following Tuesday, I think, and she got a copy of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what Robin got.<\/p>\n

And then we had to part ways because the con was coming to an end.<\/p>\n

Even though it was kids\u2019 day, and still very crowded, Sunday was actually the more relaxed day.\u00a0 No rushing around to get to panels and being able to hang out and talk with cool people.<\/p>\n

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Kiera, Myke (good looking writer guy), and Ted Arthur<\/p><\/div>\n

And I\u2019m amused as hell that one pic on Facebook has Kiera commenting that she\u2019s become one of the geeks, and Pam called Myke a good looking writer guy.\u00a0 He responded that the good looking guy was his friend and not an author, and that friend tagged Myke as \u201cgood looking writer guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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