Morning, squiders.
Hey, guess what is this weekend? It’s MILEHICON.
Guess what I am not ready for? Also MileHiCon.
When we talked on the 8th about getting ready for MileHiCon, I was like, oh, I don’t really need to get going yet. I have time!
And that, my friends, was wrong.
I forgot that all last week I was off cavorting through New Mexico (we got some rain but were not especially close to Roswell), which was more exhausting than expected. So now it is too late to order more books (I only have two copies of Hallowed Hill, oh no) or bookmarks, or anything really, except perhaps print out some fliers, which I still need to make and/or find.
So, hey, yeah, I should have started that week.
(I also thought I had one more week in there. I think it’s because Halloween is the middle of the week this year, so MileHiCon is 25/26/27 instead of, like, 27/28/29. Only a few days difference but making a lot right about now.)
Here’s my prep list, if you recall:
- Check book stock and order more if necessary
- Research and prepare for panels
- Follow up with author co-op table sign up if haven’t heard by Friday
- Figure out if I have any Writers’ Motivation fliers left over from last year and if not make more
- Bookmarks??? (And if so, of which book(s)?)
- Make sure we have Venmo, Square, et al set up and ready to go with all the pieces
- Business cards??
So, I have checked my book stock. All hunky dory except HH, as mentioned above. That’s not great, as that’s my newest. Maybe I can put it on sale online and have links available.
They added a panel on me on the latest revision of the schedule (Friday evening), and it looks like I need to come up with the moderator questions for the panel I’m moderating? Normally they’re given to me, so I need to get on that so I can get the questions back to the coordinator and she can get them to the panelists.
Co-op table is ready to go.
I have two more places to look re: Writers’ Motivation fliers (but also I think I have the file and can just print more as necessary).
No bookmarks, not on top of things.
Venmo is fine, Square is essentially fine, I just need to find my card reader (two–three–possible places). Prices are the same as last year so it’s all programmed in.
I think I know where the business cards are too. Just need to grab them.
So, new list:
- Make questions for moderation panel (the horse one) and send to coordinator
- Get business cards and square reader and put them with the books (also newsletter sign-up sheet)
- Find Writers’ Motivation fliers or make more
- Make sale codes for HH, links for Deep and Blue
- Prepare for other panels
AH!
Anyway, talk to you guys later! Procrastination is bad!
