If you didn’t know it yet, you can reserve tickets to RodCon 2007 in advance. It might be difficult to determine now if you want tickets for both days or for just one of the days of the event until the final program schedule is released, but there’s no harm in reserving ahead since you will have until January 20 to pay for the tickets. We might also be selling tickets at the store when they become available.

We met with Kristin M. of RodCon at the bookstore to discuss Booktopia’s planned involvement. We will be putting up a booth and we will also be hosting a panel or two. If you know what types of books you want to see there or what panel topic you would be most interested in, please get in touch with us.

We really encourage attendance to RodCon. We like that it’s new and different, that it’s trying to do something good, that it’s ambitious and idealistic. It’s about getting readers together for two days to celebrate reading and it’s also about creating new readers. The people behind Rodcon believe, and we agree, that developing a reading culture is something we desperately need as a society. Remember that proceeds from the event will go to a foundation that builds libraries for rural public schools.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a casual reader or a serious reader, RodCon is for everyone. I know someone who only reads comicbooks, someone who can only get himself to read computer manuals, someone who only buys magazines, and someone who is a book snob through and through and will read only the most obscure stuff. It doesn’t matter.

And then if you count yourself among those who don’t read but from time to time maybe you wish you did, go to RodCon, you just might see something you like.