We few, we happy few here at Empty Set are finally, finally going back to Atlanta for DragonCon in full force for the first time since the 2020 lockdown.

Come on out and hang, but there's more to it, isn't there?

Yes, we're going to talk about how creators and authors prepare for conventions right after this.

The Welcome to Deep Cuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slice's fiction podcast,

where his sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world of fiction and in pop culture.

I am Scott Sigler, sci-fi horror author, known far and wide as the future dark overlord.

And I am A.B. Sigler, audiobook narrator and publisher at Empty Set Entertainment.

And tonight, we're talking about our DragonCon experience and how authors prepare

for conventions. All right. So DragonCon is coming up. We are going to drag on for the first

time since 2020. Now, of course, as you mentioned, with COVID in lockdowns, people stop going

to cons, con stop happening, but things seem to be

springing back.

So we're heading back to one of the granddaddies of them all, Dragon Khan in Atlanta, 50,000

people cramming in a downtown Atlanta in the hotel district to have a wonderful time of

costuming and cosplay and sci-fi and horror and anime and movies and TV and everything else.

But of course, we are on the book track because we are book people.

So what we're going to start talking about right now, give you a little peek behind the curtain,

how do creators, particularly authors, prepare to go to a convention and what the fuck do they

do when they get there? Awesome. So let's start what you do before you leave. If you have a little time before you leave, what do you do? Say you have 10 days before you leave. What do you do leading up to the time? What do you do with it? In the chairroom, Steve Rickenberg says, did you say 50,000?

I think it means 75,000 or 75,000 people at DrainCon?

Ah, it's somewhere between 64 and 75 right now, I think.

All right.

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