Convention

Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the ballot for the 2010 Hugo Awards and all the votes have been cast. Now it’s just a case of counting it all up. There are some awesome nominees this year and some truly deserving ones. I’m looking forward to the announcements on these....
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Aussiecon 4, better known as Worldcon, is fast approaching. Looks like I’ll be doing a few bits and pieces there in the way of panels and workshops as well as having a top time with friends and colleagues. I’ll write more about that stuff later. In the meantime, check this out. I’ll be going...
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This is a perfect example of what I love about the Australian spec fic community. My good friend and awesome author Cat Sparks has come up with a damn fine plan, and I can only endorse it wholeheartedly. I’ll let Cat’s explanation stand unedited: Many of you will be familiar with this story already...
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It’s Monday, I’m feeling sleep deprived and have a sore throat from talking too much. I was clearly at a con this weekend. Continuum 6: Future Tense, in fact. And what a great con it was. I caught up with many friends and finally met for real some people I know quite well online....
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It’s convention time again. This weekend I’ll be at Continuum 6: Future Tense. Continuum is a Melbourne con that has a cool, intimate vibe. There’s always good people and interesting things going on. For my part, other than hanging out with friends and hopefully making some new friends, I’ll be on a couple of...
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The Australian speculative fiction blog carnival is off to a galloping start for 2010. You can find the January collected posts at Egoboo WA. There’s loads of stuff there, including a few bits by yours truly. Things about Continuum, Natcon, feminism in spec fic and the furore surrounding it, reviews, fiction, interviews, publishing news,...
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No posts for days, then three in a row. I am the bus poster. Just wanted to let everyone know about Freecon 2009 this weekend. This is a small and completely free SF convention held in Sydney each year. This year it’s at Bankstown library (a two-minute walk from Bankstown Railway Station, toward Keating...
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I guess this will be my last Conflux 6 related post. It has a rhyming title, it’s the 6th post for Conflux 6, everyone is bored shitless of me going on about Conflux already, and so on. However, people wanted pictures – let it not be said that I never give the people what...
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I’m home from Conflux 6, exhausted but exhilirated. What a great con it was. Today I was on a panel all about Twitter, blogging and all things internet promotion. It was an interesting and lively panel that consisted of myself and Nicole Murphy (who has just sold a fantasy trilogy to Harper Collins –...
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I was up at an ungodly hour this morning. Well, I wasn’t actually, it just felt like it. Then right off the bat at 10am I sat on a panel all about publishing options in this brave new world. I’ve rattled on enough on this blog about those things so I’m sure you can...
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