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#AwesomeCon: Your Next Favorite Con? @awesomecon

For someone who went to her first Con only a few years ago, I seem to spend a lot of my free time on the Con circuit these days. In the past year, I’ve gone to Special Edition: NYC, FlameCon, DragonCon, NYCC, BroadwayCon, and now AwesomeCon. There’s a simple reason for all of this, one that’s hard to explain to non-geeks: at Cons, I get to take time off from ordinary life and enter a place where…

Wizard World Philadelphia: You've Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me #WizardWorldPhilly

I thought about this long and hard before reaching the conclusion that there’s no nice way to review this past weekend at Wizard World Philadelphia. As a seasoned con-goer, I was prepared for virtually anything my first time at a con run by the Wizard World franchise (not to be confused with the Wizarding World of Harry Potter). I treated myself to a VIP pass so I could meet Tom Hiddleston again…

ARC Guilt, or, When Did I Become a Book Hoarder?? #books #PLA2016

I’m not sure if my book collecting tendencies are related to my career as a librarian or if there’s some deeper, more disturbing, reason behind my need to own so many titles. Whatever the cause or reason, my need to own/read ALL THE THINGS is never more apparent than when I am offered a book pre-publication. These ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) are given – for free – to librarians, bloggers, book…

Book Riot Live: First Times Can Be Awkward

There are conventions for everything. So many, in fact, that some new or smaller ones tend to get a little lost in the shuffle. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the inaugural Book Riot Live convention on 11/7/15, at Metropolitan West in New York, and for free, no less. As mentioned it was their very first year, and so there were plenty of kinks to work out. To start, the location was not…

NYCC 2015: Still Bigger, Now Better #NYCC

Where are all the rest of the NYCC posts, OnW?! We know, guys, we know! But real life/day job reentry is a bitch and there are only so many hours in the day. Rest assured, they’re coming! Let’s keep the ball running with an overview because this year was a marked improvement in NYCC’s history which befits it being its 10th birthday, awwwww. Welcome to prepubescence, NYCC! Heading down to the 7 at…