Once I finished my post last night, I put my head on my pillow to take a nap, with the intention of getting up a little after 10PM so I could go and mingle at the after parties. I need to engage with this conference in more ways than just attending the table down in the dealer’s room. After parties should be good for that.

My body had different ideas. I woke up, but only long enough to take off my clothes and climb properly into bed, then sleep until the morning. I must have slept close to 11 hours, and I was still tired when we got up. I’m adjusting to the time zone by treating all hours of the day as suitable for sleeping.

Most of today looked a lot like Saturday. We got the table set up, registered our inventory as we rearranged the layout, then prepared to greet hungry book buyers. I didn’t expect to sell any more copies of The Repossessed Ghost today since all we had left were hard covers, but we sold 2. We sold a lot of books I didn’t expect us to sell. According to our records, we have outperformed Arisia 2023 says significantly.

The highlights of the day for me has to be the interviews for the Small Publishing in a Big Universe podcast. I helped record some interviews at Baycon in 2023, and I interviewed some new authors for the December issue. Over the last couple of days, I’ve been recording Live from Arisia content, and it’s been a lot of fun.

The interviews today went very well. I didn’t overthink it. I kept my canned questions simple, and I allowed the flow of conversation to influence my questions as we went. I’m sure the people I interviewed had a good time, too. We all left the recording room with smiles.

If you’re curious what the recording setup was like, I used my Blue Snowball microphone, now with a broken stand, plugged into my Surface Pro 6. I recorded using Audacity, and we took advantage of a quiet room near the pool in which masks were optional. If we’d left our masks on, we might have come across sounding like the adults from a Charlie Brown cartoon.

When I get home, L. A. Jacob will receive all of the audio files and edit them into something presentable. Hopefully, there will be enough material to make a good episode. I did record a comedy bit with Steven D. Brewer, which may or may not be useful. It was definitely funny.

Tomorrow is our last day of the convention. It’s nearly 10PM local time, and I still have some hope of going and mingling with people outside of the dealer’s room. I’ll pack up first, just in case. We’ll likely take our bags down to the dealer’s room with us tomorrow and stow them under a table. Our timing for hitting our next flight might be a little tight.

I haven’t seen much of Arisia, but I’ve had a good time, just the same. I wonder how Boskone will compare.