Just because I interrupted myself on Thursday I’m giving you some lovely photos today. I’m hoping people will come along and identify themselves because some of these people I have no idea. These people are advertising a Zombie Apocalypse tonight, you might remember the typo I vaguely mentioned the other ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I can see what you’re thinking but you’re wrong. Yes, there was a TARDIS at Armageddon (actually two of them) but she didn’t bring Tolkien (worse luck, I could just see myself totally freaking out by meeting Tolkien). What really happened is that I was confronted by the Lady Galadriel ...
Just a few super heroes for you today. I didn’t take the time to write down who they were, I’ll put the photos up on a cosplay forum and see what eventuates, maybe someone will come and comment for me. The attention to detail almost has me in tears, I have such ...
Doctor Who was a very big theme at Armageddon this year, it might have something to do with Jenna Coleman being there as a speaker etc. There are some very inventive people doing costumes out there. This lady in her Dalek costume had those shoes with wheely things underneath so ...
What a big weekend! I’ve just spent the past two days behind a table publicising the Australian Discworld Convention and converting (corrupting?) people to the goodness and cleverness that is Pterry Pratchett. Armageddon is a wonderfully exciting pop culture convention and the name lends itself to all sorts of puns, ...
Around about the time I went to Sydney for the National Book Bloggers Forum at Penguin Random House I was thinking we really needed a group for book bloggers. If they could get 50 people there in the space of a few weeks then how many book bloggers are there ...
I’m giving you a lot of book reviews recently only because I’ve been a little distracted. I had a tooth out last week, I have this feeling there’s a little fallout from that but I won’t find out until my appointment this afternoon. I also have various other medical appointments over the ...
Found a few things I felt were photo worthy when I was in Sydney last month for the National Book Bloggers Forum 2014 run by Penguin Random House. I took this photo while thinking of the London Underground Mind the Gap signs painted on the platforms, when I took a ...
There are some fabulous events out there which seem to be unadvertised but I suspect that’s mainly because I don’t read the right papers. I picked up a pamphlet a few days ago with the intent of reading it carefully and enjoying as much as I had time for but I ...
Elianne was built with the sweat and blood of ‘Kanakas’. In 1881, ‘Big Jim’ Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour. The ...
This is the first book I’m reviewing of my loot from the National Book Bloggers Forum 2014. Bruce McCabe was brave enough to face up to a roomful of women bloggers with his book which skims gender problems and mostly talk to us about the lie detector technology he’d had ...
At the National Book Bloggers Forum we were regaled by the publishers of Penguin Random House about their favourite books they’re publishing this year. When I say ‘regaled’ I mean haranged as we were a captive (and willing) audience, they were very excited, not just to be publishing these books but ...
We were given so much information about being published I can’t possibly write it all down but I’ll do some of it. We heard from Random House Australia Managing Editor Brandon VanOver who gave us so much information in such a short time there was no way I could write most of it ...
Today I’m on the way home to Melbourne after a very exciting day spent at Random House in Sydney. It was a wonderful day, I had a blast, made some new friends and thanks to Penguin Random House exceeded my baggage allowance for my flight. This is a photo of ...
I am very proud, pleased as punch and extremely excited to be able to attend the inaugural National Book Bloggers Forum next week. It’s sponsored by Penguin Random House and I’m travelling to Sydney not just for that day but I’m staying with my cousin and she’s pressing me to stay ...