{"id":24929,"date":"2019-08-18T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24929"},"modified":"2019-08-17T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T01:32:18","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-august-17-2019-librarycon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-17-2019-librarycon-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, August 17, 2019: LibraryCon 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subtitle: Daddy&#8217;s been a bad, bad boy.<\/p>\n<p>This is my third year going to LibraryCon, a little one day convention that the Springfield Greene-County Library puts together (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/19\/good-book-hunting-librarycon-2017-august-18-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/18\/good-book-hunting-library-con-2018\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018<\/a>).  Last year, I bought more books than the previous year.  This year?  <em>Boy, howdy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh157.jpg\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh157.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a bunch.<\/p>\n<p>We got there while many of the comic book artists were in a conference room, which limited my comic book and graphic novel intake, but it had a larger supply of authors than in years past.<\/p>\n<p>So I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Blade So Black<\/em> by L.L. McKinney.  The author, from Kansas City, tells me it&#8217;s like Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8217;s adventures through the looking glass in Wonderland.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>A Trial By Error<\/em> by Susan Eschbach which looks to be a science fiction romance novel.  I say this because some of the other books on the writing group&#8217;s table were genre\/romance books.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Several books by Levi Samuel.  When I got to his table, I thought he looked familiar, but I didn&#8217;t recognize the name or his series.  When he waved to milk crates to his right with discounted books, I recognized <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/book-report-dammit-bre-by-samuel-rikard-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dammit Bre<\/em><\/a>.  This is the same guy using a pseudonym.  Sorry, a <em>nom de plume<\/em>.  So I bought a fantasy trilogy, the Heroes of Order (<em>Izaryle&#8217;s Will<\/em>, <em>Izaryle&#8217;s Prison<\/em>, and <em>Izaryle&#8217;s Key<\/em>) and an urban fantasy book, <em>The Pandora Gambit<\/em>, to join <em>The Order of the Trident<\/em> on my to-read shelves.  At least these will be at the top.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The only two books so far in the Earthborn Legacy series by Matthew S. Devore, <em>Earthborn Awakening<\/em> and <em>Earthborn Alliance<\/em> where elves ruled the Earth before being wiped out by an enemy that has now come for man, who allies with a couple of elves who escaped destruction.  Sounds interesting with some similar elements to a fantasy novel I started, and the author was a great fellow.  I&#8217;m looking forward to reading these sometime in the next decade.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Two mystery\/romances by Barbara Warren, <em>Murder at the Painted Lady<\/em> and <em>Hidden Danger<\/em>, from the same table as <em>A Trial By Error<\/em>  Genre\/romances and Christian from what one of the placards said.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Four books by Elton Gahr: <em>Random Fantasies<\/em>, a collection of fantasy stories; <em>Random Realities<\/em>, a collection of science fiction stories; <em> Spaceship Vision: The Impossible Dream<\/em>, a science fiction novel; and <em>Middlemen: The Brother&#8217;s War<\/em>, part of a fantasy series that is interconnected but not dependent on each.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Sharing a table with Gahr was a graphic novel guy, Seth Wolfshorndl.  I bought a couple of graphic novels from him, including <em>Rook City<\/em> (with Gahr as the writer), and <em>Duel!<\/em> as well as a comic (<em>Evil Ain&#8217;t Easy<\/em>).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Comic work by Isaac Crawford, including the graphic novel <em>Seven Dwarfs and Some Odd Tales<\/em> as well as comics <em>The Musical Mishaps of Cat &#038; Fiddle<\/em> (1-6) and <em>The Boy and the Dragon<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A graphic novel <em>A Passage to Black<\/em> presented by Cullen Bunn.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships<\/em>, book one of Eric Shanower&#8217;s Trojan War tales.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Tales of the ShadowWood<\/em>, a comic collecting stories about anthropomorphic fox warriors by Margaret Carspecken who also does vivid fine art pictures.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Three issues of <em>Zombie Dave<\/em> that have come out since I last saw Mark Decker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would tell you how much I spent, but I don&#8217;t want my beautiful wife to find out.<\/p>\n<p>This year was a blast because I talked pretty easily with the authors&#8211;so many of them I recognized and whose works I&#8217;d enjoyed previously.  No Shayne Silvers this year, which is just as well&#8211;I haven&#8217;t read the second Nate Temple book yet (the first is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/book-report-obsidian-son-by-shayne-silvers-2012\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obsidian Son<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I stopped by Joshua Clark&#8217;s table to say hello and to tell him I&#8217;m still looking for the books in his S.T.A.R. Chronicles that I bought two years ago and haven&#8217;t yet read.  I also told <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/book-report-rise-of-the-sandmen-by-william-schlichter-2016-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Schlicter<\/em><\/a> that I had one of his Silver Dragon Chronicles books that I hadn&#8217;t read yet, so I was going to bypass his table this year.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, meeting these people who crank out a couple of books a year made me think about when I thought I was going to be a writer.  And maybe they&#8217;ve inspired me.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve certainly made me want to end this post so I can go read, so I shall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subtitle: Daddy&#8217;s been a bad, bad boy. This is my third year going to LibraryCon, a little one day convention that the Springfield Greene-County Library puts together (see also 2017 and 2018). Last year, I bought more books than the previous year. This year? Boy, howdy. I got a bunch. We got there while many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24929"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24935,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929\/revisions\/24935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}