[Deptheads] observations

[Mary Scott]

That may be a great tie-in: famous gamers. We all know gamers grow up to be pretty sucessful people. I know Wil Wheaton would be exspensive, and thus out of reach, but what about other gamers who are in the news/public eye?

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From: "Evil5757 at aol.com" <Evil5757 at aol.com>
To: deptheads at strategicon.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:26:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] observations

 Don't forget, in 1997 we got Tom Clancy to come out for free to 
Origins....ZERO cost to us....because he was promoting a game he just 
developed.  Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling goes to New England gaming 
conventions and signs autographs for free because he is a huge Miniatures 
gamer.  See if there is someone out there that we can share promotional's 
with and let's see what happens....?
 
John
 
In a message dated 3/10/2008 1:59:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
erburgess at gmail.com writes:
  Agreed. Personally, I think this idea is DOA unless it is completely 
  free, doesn't take up much space and requires virtually no effort. Even 
  then, it will add zero to the attendees numbers (except, perhaps, 
  the author's families) and might amuse a very small portion of 
  attendees at best.
   
  As someone who worked in the book industry for many years and hosted 
  hundreds of author visits (including dozens at sci-fi cons), it is rare that 
  you can get people to really come out for these kind of guys. Only really 
  big names will draw people and for those folks, we are competing with the 
  local sci-fi cons and stores. There are a ton of other opportunities to see 
  these people if you want to do so.
   
  -- 
...ERB

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  On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Patrick Havert <patrickhavert at sbcglobal.net>   wrote:
          Folks,
     
    The only thing I have against this is that the Sci Fi cons do a much 
    bigger deal about the authors that live in the area.  If it brings 
    people out, great, but we are competing with a group that's been doing that 
    for 30 years.  The real problem I see is that these guys usually get 
    paid to come out, either a per book signing fee, or a up front fee from the 
    con.  We should find out what some of the "local" authors get paid for 
    this.
     
    -Patrick
     
                
            ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Evil5757 at aol.com 
      To: deptheads at strategicon.net 
      Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:19       AM
      Subject: Re: [Deptheads]       observations
      

            Going "outside the box," vampire sex authors would bring people from 
      outside gaming to the con to see women like Hamilton and Harrison.  
      I'll do some checking to see who is local we MIGHT want to hit up on for 
      something like this and make a list.
       
      Maybe a quick survey at Gamex about "We are considering bringing in 
      some authors to Guest at Gateway...what authors do you read?" might give 
      some perspective in the area of who our current customers keep up 
      with....?
       
      John
       
      In a message dated 3/6/2008 5:41:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, spinachcat at yahoo.com writes:
              Authors could be interesting guests.  Our RPGA dude Mike Rizzo 
        just talked with Ed Greenwood (Forgotten Realms books) and Ed is open to 
        being a future guest.  SoCal probably has a dozen known 
        authors.   However, I am unsure how many people will come see 
        authors at a gaming con.   Does anyone have any point of 
        reference for this? 
         

      
       







 



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