{"id":41805,"date":"2023-06-06T18:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T01:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=41805"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T01:13:30","slug":"one-month-until-baycon-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=41805","title":{"rendered":"One Month until Baycon 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m behind.  There&#8217;s topics I should be writing about.  Melissa&#8217;s birthday was yesterday!  My book is coming out next month!  Why am I not doing anything?!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with my health, which hasn&#8217;t been completely awesome.  As I said in my last post, I have hypertension.  I&#8217;m taking blood pressure medicine, and while it is effective, I haven&#8217;t felt right for weeks.  I don&#8217;t feel like I have any energy, like I&#8217;ve been hollowed out, and it&#8217;s even harder for me to focus.  Through that lens, everything is distant and difficult.  That includes celebrating Melissa&#8217;s birthday and promoting <em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We did celebrate, though.  On Saturday, we went to Lodi and picked blueberries, then returned home and had some easy food and played Skipbo.  We had a cake, though I didn&#8217;t have any candles for her to blow out.  Yesterday, her actual birthday, an Edible Arrangement arrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her birthday was okay, but there&#8217;s only so much I can do.  She&#8217;s lonely.  She needs more friends.  I can completely relate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the book front, I&#8217;m going to post the cover NEXT WEEK.  Around that time, I&#8217;ll start spreading around the pre-order link.  I&#8217;m also planning on recording a new VLOG.  I haven&#8217;t posted one since the beginning of the pandemic, and this one is going to be a reading of <em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s more I still need to do.  There are some swag ideas I need to follow up on.  Soon, I need to contact the local Barnes and Noble again and see if I can make some magic happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to get moving.  Hypertension be damned, I need to find the energy and push through, because this is my first and maybe only chance to promote a book with my name on the cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baycon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baycon<\/a> is in less than a month.  That&#8217;s where I will get to be on the other side of a table and sell people my book.  It&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll get to be on the other side of some panels for the first time, and share directly some of the stuff I&#8217;ve acquired over these years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.grenadine.co\/sites\/baycon\/en\/baycon-2023\/people\/1229\/Brian%20C%20%20E%20%20Buhl\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a link<\/a> to my convention schedule.  When I look at it, I feel like a rock star.  It feels like a celebration of all the work I&#8217;ve been doing for the last decade and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to order a signed copy of <em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em> early, straight from the publisher and to be delivered after July 4th, let me know and I will get you a link.  I&#8217;ll be publicly posting the link next week, but I can still hook up friends and family right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;m behind. There&#8217;s topics I should be writing about. Melissa&#8217;s birthday was yesterday! My book is coming out next month! Why am I not doing anything?!? Let&#8217;s begin with my health, which hasn&#8217;t been completely awesome. As I said in my last post, I have hypertension. 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