Last weekend I found myself with a lot of time on my hands to think. Like, a lot of time. Like, an unfortunate amount of time.

Unfortunate because I was solo tabling my first con in over a decade and it was not great. One sale... To a friend.

Not my scene at all. Not my audience. Live and learn. Trying PeoriaCon next...

Any way, lots of time to stare off into the distance. Time to try and answer the question, "How does an artist find their audience?"

I mean, of course I am primarily thinking about myself, but, like I said, lots of time. So, the aperture opened up and a couple of truths became clear.

  1. The internet sucks for finding anything now.
  2. Third spaces suck for finding anything now.
  3. Fandom and the data gold rush has ruined art.

I thought about other stuff of course. These were just the top three worth mentioning. I also came up with a theory on the so called "male loneliness crisis" but that is far less interesting than this...