#numairsalmalin

[theroguequeenaniki]

#KimickaPhotoADay December Day 27: Book(s) 📚 Well, of course I got books for Christmas! Lol. And they just so happen to be new copies of my favorite books I read this year! The Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce. I read them for the first AND second time this year! In the span of like 2 weeks! (With one book series in between (The Protector Of The Small series also by Tamora Pierce lol). I fell wholeheartedly in love with these books. With Daine, and Numair, and their adventures! I mean, for crying out loud, they got me to seek out Fanfiction again! Something I haven't done in quite a while! (The fandoms I would want to read for...are so small I've read all the fics everytime I go looking lol). Anyway, I love these books. I love Tamora Pierce. And I'm so happy to have this box set, b/c my copies of this book were already falling apart. Lol. #books #book #theimmortals #tamorapierce #dainesarrasri #veralidainesarrasri #numairsalmalin #arramdraper #daineandnumair #dainesalmalin #tortall #christmas #christmaspresents #bookstagram #reading #reader #photo #photoaday #photoadaychallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/CmsVwNPLTJ8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[undervioletlights]

Young Arram: Ozorne means well he’s just-

Racist. He’s racist.

[howtobeaconartist]

I've been selling at cons for a few years and was wondering if there's any sort of blog, forum or the like that's dedicated (or at least mostly) to how...good for artists a convention is. I sold at Tatsu-Con and it was an EPIC bust, and just this past weekend sold at Retro Game Con in Syracuse, which was also not super great. I think, if this doesn't exist, it might be a good thing to have a place for artists to rate conventions based on multiple factors so that trying out new cons is easier?

Kiriska: Artists Alley Confidential exists for that purpose, though it remains relatively limited in its selection of cons. There are just so many shows these days, there’s no way any site can really cover them all, even if people are willing to contribute opinions.

The annual Artist Alley survey I’ve been conducting also aims, in part, to help artists determine if a show might be good for them, though a lot of the good tidbits are buried in the raw data. It’s just hard to collect and organise data about literally hundreds of conventions a year, and it’s doubly hard to find artists willing to share their opinions in the same place.

One thing I’ve found valuable in recent years is regional Facebook groups aimed at artists/vendors. These are a great place to find feedback on smaller/local shows that may be overlooked on sites catering to a more national audience. For example, there’s a Pacific Northwest vendor’s FB group that frequently shares information for local cons, including vendor feedback/opinions.

Occasionally, googling “convention name artist review/report” will get you some good stuff too.

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[a--kind-of-library]

George finds Arram Draper juggling in the snow. Good George voice, totally believable.