i’m off to nerd prom

It’s so weird to have this great week working on Criminal Minds that I can’t talk about in any detail until October. I have no mouth, and I must scream, you could say. How about I just give up one little non-spoilery thing, and nobody tells on me, okay?

At the end of the shoot, I was thanking a lot of the people I worked with for making it such a great experience. Every single one of them told me that they wished I worked on the show every day. I guess the feeling was mutual.

So, yeah, that made me feel pretty good. If you get a chance to work on Criminal Minds, I highly recommend it.

Now, to business:

Tomorrow, I’m heading down to San Diego for an abbreviated stay at Comic-Con. Here’s my schedule:

  • On Thursday, I’ll be on a panel called Star Trek Without a Blueprint: How books and comics keep expanding the boundaries of the Star Trek universe. We’ll be talking about the future of Star Trek publishing in room 32AB from 4:00-5:00. I’ll be on the panel with Andy Mangels (moderator and Star Trek author), Margaret Clark (executive editor, Pocket Books), Andy Schmidt (senior editor, IDW) and Star Trek authors Kevin Dilmore, Dave Mack, Scott Tipton, and Dayton Ward.
  • The rest of the time, I’ll be with my friend Rich Stevens at the Dumbrella booth, which is number 1335. MC Frontalot is going to be there, too, so if you’re looking to fill that final square on Nerd Bingo, come and see us.

Oh. I guess it would be useful to know what I’m taking with me to sign and sell, wouldn’t it?

In addition to some 8x10s from Star Trek and Stand By Me, I’ll have copies of The Happiest Days of Our Lives , which I’m kind of hoping will sell out.

I’ll have a few copies of Dancing Barefoot and Just A Geek. I’ll also have a few copies of Volume 2 of the Star Trek Manga. I won’t have any copies of Volume 3 of the Star Trek Manga, but it’s just been released, so I’m sure you’ll be able to pick up a copy somewhere. If you bring it to the booth, I’m happy to sign it for you.

Finally, I will have copies of this year’s Chapbook, which is called Sunken Treasure. What’s that, you say? You don’t know what that is? You don’t have time to click a link, you say? Well, my lazy friend, allow me to show you part of the author’s note:

Every summer, I make one of these limited chapbooks and take them with me on the inevitable summer convention tour. In the past, I’ve pulled material from whatever I’m working on, as sort of a fall preview, but this year the book I’m working on is so top secret, I’d have to print the chapbook on self-destructing paper, and while that would make it a very limited edition, the costs associated are kind of prohibitive.

So for 2008’s limited edition chapbook extravaganza, I’ve put together the first ever Wil Wheaton Sampler. With the help of my editor Andrew, who is a former ninja warrior and recreational time traveler, I’ve pulled together things I like from all three of my books, my blog, and this groovy collaborative fiction project I play with called Ficlets. I’ve also included, for the first time anywhere, one of the scripts I wrote for a sketch comedy show at the ACME Comedy Theater.

I am really proud of Sunken Treasure, and I think Andrew (my friend and editor) and I came up with something really special. I only sold about a dozen of them at San Jose Super-Con (there really weren’t that many people there this year) and since I’m not welcome at the Creation convention in Vegas, the only places you can get copies of it will be Comic-Con and PAX. I’m anxious to get these little books out into the wild, though, so I hope you’ll tell everyone you know, for a grand total of 150 people (you guys can coordinate this, right?) to come by the Dumbrella booth and check it out. It’s so weird to make something I’m so proud of, and only get to share it with a handful of people so far.

I don’t know if I’ll be particularly motivated to post while I’m away. I’ll likely be posting all sorts of things to Twitter, including where I am and when I’ll be signing. There will also be pithy observations about my fellow geeks, so you don’t want to miss that. Erm, provided I can avoid the fail whale, that is. Ahem.

The Internet is quiet as hell lately. I feel like I’m talking into an empty tube, so thanks for reading and commenting; it makes me feel a little less like a crazy old man with no pants standing on the corner ranting about the weather.

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65 thoughts on “i’m off to nerd prom”

  1. not to mention it would have been totally fashionable if you happened to be wearing your now infamous clown sweater and no pants.

  2. If you can sneak out of Comic-Con Friday Morning between 9-11am and stop by this:
    http://community.livejournal.com/whywewatchljcom/22815.html
    it would be much appreciated (besides it’s just outside the Convention Hall and you can’t geek out non-stop without taking a breather unless you want to permanently damage your health :D)
    Good luck with your nerd prom king campaign…I think you’ve got the inside track on winning it.
    My geek days at cons are long over (only cons near me as a kid were the Washington DC area Creation Cons) Plus there was the slightly traumatic incident in which at 13 I had to kiss Jimmy Doohan *on the lips* to get my Scotty photo autographed by him (my first time meeting him in person no less). He clearly made me as one of his fangirls.
    Thank god the only evidence of that meeting is the signed photo of him. Even though he embarassed the hell outta me at the time, I still miss him & Gene though.

  6. Wil, I haven’t been by in awhile but I just starting toying with Twitter and saw this msg from Comic-Con:
    “wilw – Dear Hollywood douchebags: the middle of the fucking aisle is not the best place to stop and tell each other how great you are.”
    I had a bad day today and you made it better. I’ve been to the Con once and I know how crowded and irritating it is. Thanks again and have fun.

  7. double drat! i was at comic con today and waited in your line for a bit before wandering off after some shiny object glinting in the distance. when i returned to the dumbrella booth – wil wheaton had left the building. crap-ola. me want more books with wild wheaton signature.
    🙂

  9. Well I am so busy making black and gray uniforms that I could not go to Comic Con if I wanted too. Wil I want a clapbook,so bad. If you have any extras I would love to have one. I have shiney gold rocks too. BTW, what is PAX?? Taking the fuzzy kids to the honker in Vegas. Last time for the Experience.

  11. Lack of sleep, I can totally relate to that. Early morning I bake and make bagels and then go home to write freelance and try to jump-start my true love–fiction writing. Then balance the checkbook, assist my wife as needed, etc.
    Great blog, Wil. I enjoy reading it. Sorry about The Curse movie. In some ways it was unintentionally funny (such as the “I’m connecting the dots” part).

  12. TonyaJ: I actually saw a group of 6-8 people sit down in a big circle on the floor to take a break – in the middle of the aisle.

  13. Wil,
    as you are a longtime attendee, i would really like to hear your thoughts on what the con has become. Although I never ran into you (my loss, your gain) I attended the con from 87 to 2003 and watched as it morphed into what is now, a very large press junket. I am well aware that jack kirby predicted this back in about 76, but im also sure that he thought comics would still be front and center and it would still be a place that the fans could come for their one time a year family gathering…but now that is pretty much gone, as the con is filled with tweeners wanting to see stars from the twilight panel. I really miss going to the con, but there isnt a point when you cant really get to see anyone on the floor, and it kills me to think of the twilight panel having 6k screaming girls, while the golden/silver age panel gets a couple hundred…if that. I would bitch to evanier, but he thinks we og are being silly.

  14. I wish I could’ve gone to San Diego for this year’s nerd prom, but it was definitely not within the budget. Next year maybe, right?
    Oddly enough, I agree with you on the net being very quiet these days. It’s kind of an eerie feeling, tbh. *shrug*

  15. Hi! We met at SDCC on Friday, and I was specifically asking about the Manga Vol. 3, because I clearly hadn’t read this entry yet…otherwise I’d have known to ask about the chapbook…D’oh!
    Any hopes of ordering one from you over the lovely interwebs? 🙂

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