Author: Peter David

I wound up double-booking myself for the weekend of May 30, accepting an invitation to do a store signing and lecture at a library in Knoxville, Tennessee. When the conflict was discovered, I elected to stick with Knoxville because there are lots of guests for Virginia but only one me for Tennessee.

I very much apologize to the convention organizers and to any Virginia fans who were looking forward to meeting me. I assure you there are still PLENTY of terrific guests coming to Virginia and I cannot recommend the convention highly enough.

Kindly do NOT blame the GalaxyCon staff, who are a great bunch of folks. This was entirely my screw up and I’m sorry for any confusion.

PAD

There is obviously only one story regarding Trump dominating the news, and that is the Robert Mueller report. The report which Trump has repeatedly dismissed as a witch hunt even though dozens of people have been prosecuted and convicted because of it is finally available to be read. Or at least most of it is. Attorney General William Barr, redacted portions of it, ostensibly for security reasons.

The problem is that we all know Barr is Trump’s stooge. That’s been evident from the get-go, when Barr was trashing Mueller’s undertaking and declaring that Trump could not possibly be charged with any crimes: effectively saying he was above the law, which is naturally exactly what Trump wants to hear and believe.

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Wow. People are loving this book. It helped that Marvel sent out advance reading copies for reviews.

Me, I loved the artwork. Very well done.

I just read the finals for issue #2. It just gets better.

PAD

So Trump has been spending the past two weeks claiming that the Robert Mueller report completely exonerates him, even though the four page summary of the 400 page report produced by Trump flunky William Barr explicitly states that it does not exonerate him. I mean, of course we know Trump is lying because, well, he’s Tweeting and speaking, so naturally it’s lies. But what makes this even more intriguing is that Mueller’s notoriously press-shy employees have told the New York Times that they are extremely dissatisfied with Barr’s summary of the report. That there is ostensibly plenty of dámņìņg evidence in there about Trump that Barr is anxious to sweep under the rug.

This is only to be expected. Barr got the job entirely because he was already on record about how much he despised the entire concept of the report and felt that the President was pretty much immune to prosecution. So naturally he would endeavor to whitewash the results.

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We caught a break when we checked in. It turns out the presidential suite was indeed available. So we took it. Festivities will be up in room 950 beginning at 7 PM sharp. Also, since were now in a private room, food is available. So if you want some, bring some! See you then.

So I tried to get a larger room at the hotel. Failed to do so. I attempted to book a meeting room at the hotel. They sent a nice email saying they’d get back to me about a price and, big surprise, never did.

Screw it.

At 7 PM tomorrow, Saturday, I am going to be in the lobby of the Bethesda Marriott North, 5701 Marinelli Road, Rockville, Maryland. I will have stuff of mine to sell. And I will be happy to talk to anyone who comes by and autograph their stuff.

Please get word of this out since we’re talking about barely a day in advance.

PAD

UPDATE: Forget it.

Marriott booked us at the wrong hotel. When I discovered it, I switched to the correct hotel and, big surprise, the Presidential Suite is not available. And we can’t hold this in a standard sized room, so I’m afraid we have to toss the idea. Sorry.

Bummed out that ReGeneration is cancelled? No problem.

Announcing:

MeGeneration

Taking place at the Bethesda North Marriott (the same hotel as the convention was originally scheduled) this weekend, MeGeneration will be a DOCTOR WHO convention about me.

I have booked a Presidential Suite at the hotel. I will be there by 3 PM this Saturday, March 30, and the convention starts at 4 PM.

We will have a dealer’s room, which will consist of my books, including scripts for YOUNG JUSTICE, BABYLON 5, and my fanzine, THE TARDIS AT POOH CORNER featuring the adventures of Doctor Pooh. And hey, if any other authors show up, they can sell their books, too.

We will have an artshow displaying Kathleen’s puppets and Caroline’s drawings.

We will have a video program consisting of DOCTOR WHO episodes, both original series and the reboot. We’ll have readings. We will have filk singing, providing someone with a guitar who knows filk songs shows up.

Admission is free.

What can you bring? Food. We’ll have munchies, and will likely bring in pizza for dinner, but if you want to bring food and drink, you are welcome to do so.

So come to MeGeneration this weekend. Because you kept the weekend free and have nothing else to do.