Every year in Portland, Oregon there is an event called Wordstock. The event is a collection of publishers, writers, and artists that are in the book publishing industry. This year I noticed they even had people from Dark Horse and other comic book publishers. If you can read, and enjoy reading, this is the event for you. If you hate books for whatever reason, you should probably stay home.
I've been to this event twice so far and both times it has been a smashing bit of fun. I've also picked up books both times. The last time I picked up a few books about this region's history. This year I picked up a book about history, and how it is taught so poorly in the United States, and a book about economics. I could have picked these up anywhere, but quit a few of the books on the last day of the event are discounted.
Overall, fun event as expected, and now I have more additions to my stack of must reads.
My Writing
While en route on the way back Joleen mentioned to me, "you ought to write a book." To which I thought, "about what?" So I asked, "about what?" Here reply was pretty straight to the obvious truth, "You write all the time, what can't you write about?" At this point I realized that it would probably be an interesting endeavor to do this. Write a book for people who read, what a novel concept!
So I just think, that I might start publishing some of these things via my blog here. I'm still not sure what topic I should focus on for my first book, who knows, maybe I'll go out on a limb and write a fiction book. Either way, I'll figure out something.