Yesterday was lovely. We met in Federation Square, I had my Moist von Lipwig hat on and for the first time felt really silly wearing it. A number of others had their Nullus Anxietas 3 tshirts on and we ended up being 14 adults and 1 child. We found a ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
What an exhausting and fantastic weekend. The Australian Discworld Convention first opened it’s doors in Melbourne in 2007 with a very successful first convention. We had 330 very happy attendees and a happy author. After this event Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimers and was unable to attend the second ...
One of the panels I attended at AussieCon 4 was called Spoiler Alert: reviewing plot-driven fiction without giving the story away. The panel had some awesome people on it: they were Ian Mond, Helen Venn, Jenny Blackford and Crisetta Macleod. I wasn’t fast enough to write down what they did ...
I made a cryptic comment in my last post Who Writes Like. I guaranteed I chose the first author that came to mind and that there were reasons it was Terry Pratchett. I’ll do my best to explain why that happened. No, I’m not explaining about Terry Pratchett, I’m only ...