Coming to Puchicon This Weekend

This weekend, October 4 and 5, I'll be at Puchicon in Fort Lee, NJ. This is a fun anime and gaming convention minutes away from NYC at the Double Tree Hotel.

I'll be in the vendor room all weekend with my books, my keychains/pins/bookmarks, my genre embroidered tee, a blind box ferris wheel game, and a demo for my upcoming game An Artist's Way Out.

First, you can pick up all my books this weekend: Take Out, Haunted, Holiday Spirits, #31Days Vol. 1, #31Days Vol.2, and the first print edition of Tick: A Short Musical. I'll also have SDMedia Zine vol. 2: Fall 2025 for free.

This is the first event where I'll be offering a discount bundle in person. As I've written about before, publishing costs are going up for independent authors, so they only way to get my books at the price I want to actually sell them for is through me. Otherwise, you're paying a whole lot more to line a big box business' pockets.

Second, I'll have my keychains, pins, and bookmarks. These are adapted from my original 3D print models and artwork, like the My Heart Monsters, the Metallic Mayhem, and even some new characters still being released upon the world for the first time. All of these are 3D printed and finished by me. Pinbacks are $2 each or 3 for $5, while bookmarks and keychains are $3 each or 2 for $5.

My genre embroidered tee is not new, but it is being offered for sale in person for the first time. This original design, inspired by the lines and curves of an old CRT TV, features horror, sci-fi, and fantasy focused in a geometric black frame. I've gotten a lot of compliments wearing my own copy out and about at different events, so I figure I could bring a limited stock of sizes small to 4XL to the event and see if anyone really does want to get their own.

The ferris wheel blind box game is a happy accident. My brother sent me a Send A Cake package for my birthday featuring a miniature working ferris wheel filled with mini donuts. It's very sturdy, plays music and lights, and would be a shame to let collect dust on a shelf. For $3 a spin, you can try your luck at winning whichever black envelope lands on top of the spin cycle. It could be a keychain, a ceramic magnet, or even your choice of free book.

Finally, we have the An Artist's Way Out demo. I've been working on the core story to this game for a decade. I'm fascinated by horror and sci-fi narratives that pull from Non-Euclidean geometry and alternate dimensions and this is my attempt at a room that can't possibly be a room. Once I tried turning it into a game, everything clicked.

This is a roll and write, dungeon crawling, rogue-like adventure game played with a D20 and a deck of standard playing cards. You play as an artist discovering a strange door hidden down a secret hallway in your new studio. The previous artist is testing you to discover his life's work by exploring a series of rooms appearing seemingly out of nowhere with the draw of a card. You scan for his hidden sketches, photos, paintings, and statues using the die and work towards discovering enough value in art to escape the studio. Each card in the deck tells a different chapter in the story, and no two playthroughs will ever be the same. There are multiple endings, unexpected variables, and even alternate rule sets.

The game will be both a video game and a book. The demo is smaller in scope, but shows off the vibes with real excerpts from the full game. Can you survive?

I'm excited to vend at Puchicon. I used to do panels and press at this kind of local anime and gaming convention all the time a decade ago. CycloneCon brought that spark back. I hope to see you there. Tickets for the weekend are available now.