Boats and Boners 2: 2 Boat, 2 Boner
Added 2019-03-25 19:01:32 +0000 UTCOOPS, WE DID IT AGAIN.
Lucy Bellwood and I somehow slipped through the vetting process and returned to Emerald City Comic Con with a sequel to last year's panel, Boats and Boners: A Fireside Chat with Lucy Bellwood and Erika Moen.
We've been doing conventions and industry-focused panels for.... a while now. They can get kinda repetitive. Sometimes you just wanna have a chat with your chum about the stuff you wanna talk about. Like boats. And boners. And shoes and ships and ceiling wax, and cabbages and kings. And also vulnerability and burnout and how being a person is hard.
We fashioned our inaugural B&B panel as a fireside chat, complete with a working fake roasting log, smoking jackets (hotel robes), and pipes (toy bubble saxophones). Wanting to reuse the artificial fire again this year, we forged a camping scenario complete with sleeping bag, headlamp, canister of hot tea, and marshmallows.
Copy-pasting from Lucy's post:
Gratitude to Andy for capturing the event and making it all sync up correctly, Catherine for the cover image, Sarah for marshmallows and tea, and Eli for our splendid fireplace.
Both Lucy and I are not planning on exhibiting at ECCC next year (See: burnout), but.... But we kind of love our annual public conversation? So right now the plan is to just come up for one day, do a scheduled signing at a publisher's booth, and cap off the day with our beloved panel (provided it gets approved again! WILL THE PANEL PLANNERS HAVE LEARNED THEIR LESSON YET?).
Which begs the question, what do we title the third installment?
Boats and Boners 3: Tokyo Drift?
Boats and Boners 3: Christmas Vacation?
Boats and Boners 3: The Search For Spock? (Oo! Replaced Spock with Spork!)
Escape from Boats and Boners
Boats and Boners Take Manhattan
Boats and Boners 3: Fury Road
Boats and Bon3rs 3
Boats and Boners 3: The Threesome
We'll keep workshopping it.
Comments
The words "Electric Boogaloo" are always welcome in a sequel title.
Tim
2019-03-27 04:13:09 +0000 UTCOn relating to social media, there's one of you and thousands of us. It is completely normal to feel overwhelmed and set up a gatekeeper to limit those interactions. Chopping yourself into pieces to pass out to your fans (and detractors) on social media does no one any good. I hope you can learn not to feel guilty about that. Anyone that feels entitled to your attention needs to learn that they don't have a claim on your time regardless of what they have done to support you; they should be supporting you because they like what you are doing not so that they can make you stop doing it to pay attention to them. That sounds harsh, but it is a necessity.
TPRJones
2019-03-27 00:07:48 +0000 UTC
