After two years of many, many conventions, there seems to be a paucity of them on my 2026 schedule. That makes next weekend (May 22–25) even more exciting: I’ll be at Balticon! (That’s in Baltimore, Maryland.)

As always, if you’re looking for me at the convention, the first place to look is the dealers’ room at the Fantastic Books table—where I expect to have copies of the new anthology Resistance available. We’ll be open Friday from 2 to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 7pm, and Monday from 10am to 2pm. Remember, at Balticon, they hide the dealers’ room behind a lot of vendors in the lobby area, which they call Artists Alley, but in reality, it’s the dealers who pay less for their tables because the area doesn’t lock at night. You’ll have to pass them to find the two dealers’ rooms.

I’ll also be on programming, so you can find me on the following panels:

Friday at 10:00pm in Federal Hill: “Don’t Get Me Started!” with Daniel M. Kimmel, Nomi S, and Jean Marie Ward.

Saturday at 2:30pm in Gibson: “Romanticizing the Monarchy” with Carolyn Ives Gilman, Chidumebi Njoku-Browne, Jennifery R. Povey, and John Robison.

Sunday at 11:30am in Room 7029: “Punctuation and Other Things” with Andrew McDowell, Bjorn E. Hasseler, and D.H. Timpko

Sunday at 4:00pm in Mount Washington: “Publishing AMA: Self Pub and Small Press and Trad, Oh My!” with Joshua Bilmes, Doc Coleman, and Kim Headlee.

Sunday at 7:00pm in Guilford: “75 Years After I, Robot” with Susanne Allen, Tom Doyle, and Mark Painter. I may be a few minutes late for this one, because the dealers’ room closes at 7:00.

Hope to see many of you there, and hope to come home with far fewer books!