Category: Conventions

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Going to FanCon Aarhus 2025

FanCon Aarhus Logo

FanCon Aarhus Logo

I’m happy to say that I’m going to be at FanCon, the new convention in Aarhus, in August! I’m very excited about this one, as the people behind it have been doing a lot of really cool one-day events in my local area lately, and I can’t wait to see their take on a proper convention.

Find me in Artist Alley at the booth named Louring’s Books & Knickknacks where I will be selling—you guessed it—books and knickknacks. As always you should feel free just to come by for a chat, even if you’re not planning on buying anything. Talking to people is my favorite thing about going to conventions!

(Even if it’s also really nice when I have to carry less books back to my car at the end of the weekend…)

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KoyoCon 2024

KoyoCon 2024 Artist Alley Books

As I’m slowly beginning to recover from the mixture of a cold, malnutrition and sleep deprivation that is my familiar companion at every convention I go to, I wanted to write a few words about KoyoCon 2024 that took place last weekend.

I believe I have been to every single main KoyoCon convention since the very first year it was held, so it’s not like there’s a lot that hasn’t already been said time and time again, but I really do enjoy going to sell books in the Artist Alley each year—despite what my miserable expression might suggest once it’s nearing 10 pm after being at it for 12 hours straight, running on fumes and energy drinks.

 

KoyoCon 2024 Artist Alley Books

This was the first convention I went to after the release of Eerie Song and I’m blown away by how many familiar faces still show up to grab a copy of the latest book in this long-running series (a series that is finally coming to its end with the next book).

It really does warm my heart.

But, of course, it wouldn’t be a proper convention experience without some funny moments.
This time around, I would like to highlight the person who came by and told me about how many different kinds of my bookmarks they had bought (strongly suggesting that they had visited my booth at multiple conventions) and then in the middle of the conversation that followed looked at the display next to said bookmarks—the display that took up 60% of the table—and went, “Oh, I didn’t know you wrote books!”

If any moment truly captures how terrible a salesperson I am, I feel like it’s this one.

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KoyoCon Aarhus 2023

Books Artist Alley

I’m slowly recovering from the latest KoyoCon, this being their new Aarhus based event that was held for the first time this weekend.

Once again you could find me in Artist Alley, selling books and trinkets, quite often halfway through putting on makeup or wigs for a cosplay. So if you came and talked to me while pointedly ignoring me having only a single heavily done up eye, know that you are appreciated.

KoyoCon Aarhus 2023 Artist Alley

I have no funny cosplay stories from this con, and I’m fairly sure nobody took any photos that my friends can use for blackmail for years to come, so this will be a fairly boring Post Con post. Maybe I will take this chance to talk about what’s going on with my writing? That is such a foreign concept to both me and readers of this blog, but I have actually been working hard on my next book, and during the weekend I might have made a lot of promises about when said book might arrive in the wild, so… keep an eye on this space, I guess?

(Cue internal panic as yours truly realizes that she now has to follow through on all those promises.)

Better end with a little bit of con shenanigans. I won the League of Legends quiz! And no, it had nothing to do with me dragging my LoL enthusiast coworker along, since my own League experience boils down to the 2½ matches I played back in 2010…

Also, I 100% wore the cat ear headset accessories I got as a prize during our weekly meeting call at work on Monday afternoon.
…Not a single one of my coworkers commented on them. I’m not quite sure what that says about my everyday weirdness level, to be honest.

Cat Ears Headset Meeting

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KoyoCon 2022

Artist Alley KoyoCon 2022

Last week I went to KoyoCon, as I do every year. It’s hard to keep coming up with new and interesting things to share when doing a post, but as is most often the case, I had a good time!

Even after all these years, I greatly enjoy talking to people who come by my booth in Artist Alley and I’m so happy that I keep seeing both new and old faces. There’s always an inspiring author asking for advice, and someone coming by to get my latest book after buying the other ones at a previous convention.

Oh, and then there are the conversation where you spend 20 minutes talking to someone with a TV for a head.

(Cosplay conventions are the most trippy experiences you can get without drugs.)

Artist Alley KoyoCon 2022

I did a bit of cosplaying myself as well. I had somehow gotten roped into cosplaying Ada Wong from Resident Evil 4. How she chases zombies in that evening dress in the middle of some Mexican desert town, I will never understand, but I think I mostly kept from accidentally flashing people.

My friends had way too much with getting me to pose for photos, though, so I’m honestly afraid of checking the contents of my camera’s SD card.

Maybe you’ll get an embarrassing cosplay post one of these days.

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I’m Going to KoyoCon 2022

KoyoCon 2022 will be held this weekend, opening on Friday, and once again you will be able to find me at my table in the Artist Alley area of the convention, likely complaining about how heavy boxes of books are to lug around.

If you’re going, come by and have a chat.

I will, of course, be selling copies of my books, but restlessness have caused me to broaden the selection of goods I’m offering.

Basically, what I’m saying is that I learned how to crochet because I needed a few dice bags, and things got out of hand.

Crochet dice bags

They need to go before I end up drowning in them, okay? And no, just ceasing making them is apparently not an option.

Crochet hooks and yarn have most ADHD toys beat.

Don’t really have much of an excuse for the jewelry, except that I needed something to do with the leftover materials from bookmark making. So yeah, you can buy a set of earrings as well, because why the heck not?

Oh, and my mother also knitted a bunch of owls, and I’m trying not to take it personally. Come get one of those as well.

If you’re trying to find my booth on the convention map, I have renamed it as “Louring’s Books and Knickknacks”. Three guesses as to why.