I did some research this week and weekend, and I can assure you that the rumor is false. There may be some roads that aren't being worked on, but the number is not statistically significant.

This weekend was the Ohio Valley Filk Fest in Columbus. This is a get together for folks who sing science-fiction and fantasy songs - what Raj and Howard did on Big Bang Theory, except we do it better. :-)

There were about two hundred folks at the con, mostly from the midwest, but a significant number of folks from California and some from overseas.

I was stupid last spring and volunteered to teach a seminar on music theory and harmonic arrangements.

I had six months to prepare. That should be long enough...

So I spent most of Saturday closeted in my hotel room creating slides, putting notes into a music program and generating music files to demonstrate chords, inversions, tone-following and simple bass lines.

All this for the four people who showed up on Sunday Morning. Given that the hotel was offering a free breakfast at the same time as my talk, I thought that was a pretty good turnout.

I took copies of Promised Rewards with me, and sold about a dozen copies. I expected to sell a bunch at this convention, since in the fannish community, I'm best known in the filk circles, and mostly known for my funny songs.

These folks pretty much know what to expect from a book I'd write.

A couple folks told me that they'd come to the con with the intention of buying my book.

As always, the singing in the evening was fun, although with 200 folks, even spread around three or four rooms, everyone did a lot more listening than singing.