51 Hours Left and 76% There! - Support and Share

We're 76% funded with 51 hours to go! Please tell everyone you know and share this link: http://kck.st/1ryTj7m. Help us get through this last push! Even if you don't go to cons, you may have friends who do! Plus it would be a great gift :)
Thanks so much for the support!
Shelley

Gen Con Reward Level on Kickstarter!

We love Gen Con and had the most awesome show last year as first time exhibitors! This year we are excited to bring our Con*Quest Adventure Journals to the show for the very first time. So we created a Gen Con reward level on our Kickstarter! Pledge $30 (that's $10 less than our normal retail!) or more and you get a journal and bag, for easy pick up at the show in our One Less Nemesis booth 1954! Due to popular demand, we added 100 more journals to this reward! Check it out and pledge if you can, we’d love for you to have a journal to capture every single moment of Gen Con, August 14-17 at the Indiana Convention Center!

My response to the Potato Salad Kickstarter

If potato salad can raise $40k, surely a freakin awesome journal of comic-cons can get to $10k, right? RIGHT? Just think of the benefits of the Con*Quest Adventure Journal! I call just a few out in my video response...

Kickin' It With Kickstarter - We Need Your Support!

June 30 we launched our Kickstarter campaign! What is Kickstarter you might ask? It’s the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. With that said, we’re ready to move our journal business to the next level so we have inventory for the remaining 2014 cons we will be vending at plus online inventory as well.

We can use any and all support to keep this business going. We believe in it, we love it and we can’t wait to share it with all con-goers! Take a look at our campaign and share, support, like, tweet…whatever you can do, we appreciate!

Philly Wizard World Here We Come!

We're taking the plunge with our very first show dedicated to the Con*Quest Adventure Journal™! Our journals will be available in booth 900 at Philadelphia Wizard World, along with tote bags, extra sleeves and extra pages.

You can pre-order your journal through our Esty shop for easy pick up in our booth. Just order here and we'll have it waiting for you.

We are also having a huge giveaway! Stop by our booth and enter to win 2 VIP passes for next year's Philadelphia Wizard World plus a $100 Amazon Gift Card! Second and third place prizes will also be awarded. We'll post complete details soon, so check back!

The Con*Quest Adventure Journal™is the new way to get your con on with pages for autographs, artist sketches, panel notes, favorite vendors plus sleeves to protect those photo-ops and pieces of artwork. Get one as soon as you get to the show and have a complete journal of everything you did at the show by the time you leave!

See you all in Philly!

Enter to win a $200 Amazon Gift Card + 2 VIP Passes for Indy PopCon 2015

Coming to Indy PopCon? Stop by booth 912 to enter for your chance to win 2 VIP Passes to next year’s 2015 Indy PopCon and a $200 Amazon Gift Card! 

And the more stuff you do, the more chances/entries you have to win.

To enter, fill out the ticket at our booth with your name and phone number.

 

 

 

Complete these Quests for additional chances to win:

• Autograph Quest: Get an autograph
• Artist Quest: Get a sketch!
• Panel Quest: Go to a panel and get a quote
• Cosplay Quest: Get a picture of your fave cosplayer
• Vendor Quest: Write down who had the cool goods
• City Quest: Take a picture of anything you love here
• Peep Quest: Meet someone new, get their info!

FIRST PLACE:

2 VIP Passes to the 2015 Indy PopCon, a $200 Gift Amazon Gift Card,
and a One Less Nemesis T-shirt

SECOND PLACE:
2 VIP Passes to 2015 Indy PopCon plus a Polaroid 300
Instant Camera

THIRD PLACE:
$50 Amazon Gift Card

Winners picked Sunday, June 1 at 2:00 pm EST

Check off as many quests as you can, bring the form to booth 912 and get that number of entry tickets.
You do not have to be present to win.
No purchase necessary to enter.

Indy PopCon - HERE WE COME! New Reviews and Dallas Re-cap

We have been doing a whirlwind of shows over the last few weeks and it's been crazy! We have our BIG, FAT LAUNCH in my hometown at Indy PopCon, we've gotten some awesome reviews and finally I'll give you a down and dirty Dallas Comic Con recap.

Indy PopCon Hometown Launch!

Indy PopCon, which is being held May 30 to June 1 at the Indiana Convention Center, is going to be an amazing convention organized by the coolest group of local guys. We have the pleasure of working with them to promote our journals. Indy is my hometown and for all of these reasons, we are making this event our BIG RELEASE! We'll be right up front in booth 912 and will also be handing out fliers with the most awesome promotion to go along with our launch! Come out and see us!

You can pre-order your journal NOW for pick up in our booth! $40 for journal and bag, ORDER HERE!

Reviews!

Next up, we've had two new and amazing reviews coming in! Geek Girl with Curves Amy Ratcliffe posted a wonderful review of the journal on her blog, which can be found here. And from my hometown peeps, Awkward Geeks posted a great review here. We were SO PROUD when we read these reviews. Even now I get goosebumps. What we are doing feels so right, I can't wait for

everyone to catch up with us and GET IT. (remember, we're kinda impatient.) This is why I know we'll be successful. Because it feels so right.

Dallas

This is a show that used to be a lot smaller. And at a different convention center. FanExpo bought this con last year and moved it to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Dallas Convention Center. We went into this event knowing that it might be a little rough for many reasons. First, a new owner is always going to have some logistics they are not unfamiliar with. And new location adds even more potential pitfalls. Finally, we were unable to get any response from the show management regarding marketing opportunities for the journal. At all. We have found that our biggest challenge is getting the word out to people about the journal and what it is. When people get it, THEY GET IT AND LOVE IT. A cosplayer and media darling, Dallas Fan Girl, did make a wonderful review video and hold a contest, so at least we had that for promotion.

So we charged forward. Only to wait in line for TWO AND A HALF HOURS.

The meaning of vendor hell right here.

Yes. Those of you who know Ted and I understand that we are not patient people. Frankly, that's how we get so much done. But we actually handled this pretty well. Ted got out and took pictures of the hundred + cars behind us in line. At one point, the men handing out the pink papers that indicated we could drive up to the dock to unload just drove off. And said nothing about coming back or what the hell we were supposed to do next. I was tweeting and emailing like crazy. I can only assume the other vendors don't know how to use Twitter or are much more delicate than I. When things are done badly, I feel compelled to let the organizers know. Why do I do this? Because I have worked with the BEST before in convention management and I have seen how well it can be done.

Rant over. Set up went smoothly after that but we were concerned that there were no banners or numbers indicating the aisles. Our plan was to hand out fliers with our booth number and a special promotion. But it they couldn't find the booth or even the aisle, how would they find us?

Before the show opened, my brothers-in-law and an awesome friend of theirs handed out hundreds of fliers. This can be pretty hard work because people can be very cold when you're out there trying to sell something. But for those people who stopped, listened and bought a journal, we thank you! Generally speaking, the 3 day pass and VIP people were simply awesome to us.

So the show went and there was a big crowd there. It was ok, but not great, which is pretty much what we expected given that there were no marketing opportunities for us there. I did some great shots at the show:

Finally got to see Samantha! <3

Artist Amanda Tolleson

Artist Logan Pack

BABY (Supernatural)

Walking Dead Panel! Merle and The Governor

Our fabulous and branded booth

Panel notes, mostly from Stan lee

Hover Craft!

Sorry, had to post this for the 100th time