In October I will be a guest at the Conquest 2010 Convention. For info on Conquest see here.
There will be:
And for those of you who were at the World Con panel on Pitching and asked when I was doing a workshop, I will be running one on the Sunday at 2pm. So feel free to rock up.
For all the aspiring writers out there, the Scribe Fiction Prize has come around again. The prize money this year is $15,000.
‘Last year’s winner, A Darker Music by Maris Morton, will be in bookstores everywhere this October. The other shortlisted manuscripts (Meg Mundell’s Black Glass and Jane Sullivan’s Little People) will also be released by Scribe in 2011.’
Filed under Competitions, Nourish the Writer, Publishing Industry
Nightmare Ball Participants, photographed by Cat Sparks
See my How to Survive a World Con post over at the Solaris When Gravity Fails blog.
And remember it is written tongue-in-cheek!
Filed under Fun Stuff
Thanks to Jessica who set up this promo for KRK in the bookshop where she works. World’s Biggest Bookstore Canada.
And here is the interview on SciFiFanLetter blogspot. Always a pleasure to talk to someone who loves books!
Filed under Fantasy books, SF Books, Specialist Bookshops, Writing craft
From the World SF Con held in Melbourne over the weekend. Before that I did a ROR (critiuqing 3 books) and before that I did a week or more marking. Brain is a little fried, so this will be a short post.
First my Kaffeeklatsch was held first thing on Thursday morning. A big thank you to Michelle from Colorado who saw my (Please won’t someone come to my Kaffeeklatsch? I don’t want to be sitting at a table all alone – post on the Mad Genius Club blog). Also a big thank you to Elini from the Paranormal Romance girls who heeded my cry for help. We ended up having a great chat while I was waiting for the airport bus on the last day I was in Melbourne. And thank you to Kathryn from Galaxy Books who dropped by with her purple camera. We had a great chat about Buffy. I mean, there is so much to talk about with that show.
Then Sarah (who I will always think of as Callisto Shampoo because of her tag name) grabbed me and I sat in on her KaffeeKlatsch, met some lovely ladies. Satima is always a sharp eyed but sweet. And the two ladies from the US, Judith and her companion (sorry brain really is fried, can’t remember your name). We got onto the subject of women in SF and there was no stopping us. Rosie was also there but I can’t remember where.
So a big thank you to you all. Now I really must catch up with my emails. More later!
Filed under Nourish the Writer, Publishing Industry, Readers
