Sometimes it feels good

[jana_denardo]

To get back to your roots. I went to an anime con in Huntington today. It was fun. It probably hasn't escaped my first readers' attention that many of my characters are geeks too. Even Temple is a radio drama and horror flick geek. He readers the John Carter of Mars books and Tarzan (well that's what's available in 1930) and probably HG Wells too.

In Peace in the Valley my upcoming DSP advent calendar short, both John and Anthony are geeks, specifically Dr. Who and Star Wars.

I need to clean up the fae short that I set at anime con and market it. In the unfinished Riding with Strangers their first date is at a comic book store. In Kept Tears which will be finished very soon, they're steampunk and comic fans too.

I guess my geek is showing and I don't care. I love anime and manga. I've been reading comic books since the 1970's and I wish every season for less reality shows and more good SF/Fantasy shows (surely there's another Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Star Trek waiting to be made). I would be right at home with Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj (if I had one complaint about The Big Bang Theory is how dismissive it is about women reading comics. The sight of one of us in a comic book store was noteworthy back in 1982 but we're probably half the market at this point. We certainly are in manga/anime and we're almost all of its fandom).

Here's to working more of my own loves into my fiction.