I really hate to have to post this, but due to last-minute developments secondary to a current work commitment, Peter and I will not be able to attend the Discworld Convention in Birmingham this weekend.
We got a sense around midweek that a time-sensitive project I’m working on — one which I’d been attempting to ensure would not […]

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(Non-technically inclined people, look away now. Or skip down to the bottom of this where it gets less technical.)
I have a lot more screenplay stuff to do today, but I had to take an hour or so off from that after having a quick look at the “Out of Ambit” log files on arising, and noticing […]

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It was a charming convention. I look forward to coming back some time (with Peter, this time).
Stockholm is a city I look forward to visiting again when I have more time. The light here is very special. (The dark, not so special. Or maybe it is, but I’m a little set against it at the […]

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Spent a super day amongst the Swedes. No more to say about that at the moment, except that I’m about to go back to the hotel and fall over. (NB: Sweden looks a lot like Ireland when it’s raining. But you knew that.)
 
Tags: StoCon, Stockholm, convention, Sweden, Swedes

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Before introducing footage from the new Wolverine movie, Hugh Jackman jumps down off the stage to shake Len Wein’s hand.
What a super moment! And so very deserved.

Once he was back on stage, Jackman gave a really heart-felt speech to Wein saying, “I waited a long time to thank you personally and I wanted to shake […]

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Here’s another 2008 convention gig I thought I’d post about here, since it hasn’t been mentioned on the blog previously, and this seems like a good way to get the word out.
The nice people at Con*Stellation 27 have asked me to come be their Guest of Honor in Hunstville AL over the weekend of October 17–19. Peter […]

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There’s been no mention of this on the blog recently, so I thought I’d drop in a note about it now: I’ll be the Guest of Honor at StoCon ‘08 from the 1st through the 3rd of August. The convention venue is the Kulturhuset in Skarpnäck, a suburb of Stockholm (you can get there easily on the Metro: it’s […]

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For those of you who might have been interested in this appearance:
Due to convention sponsorship difficulties, DD and PM’s appearance at the Fargo Fantasy Festival in Fargo, North Dakota has been rescheduled for September 21-23, 2007.
William Shatner is the featured media guest: other guests will be announced. Please see the convention website for further details […]

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So CopperCon was a blast (as was the heat in Tempe: like a blast furnace…). Met many cool people, and had a super time. Had time to touch base with our fellow GoH, the excellent (and very busy!) Marc Scott Zicree. Ate the terrible Jack In The Box tacos for breakfast twice. (Don’t ask what […]

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Just (via Blog of a Bookslut: thanks, Jessa — ) came across this Telegraph article about — let’s call it what it is — signing envy. An ugly thing, especially if you catch yourself at it.

Never having been at this end of the whole book-festival process, it hadn’t occurred to me that book-signing is a […]

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For those of you who’ve been asking: here’s what I’m doing at LACon. (For Peter’s schedule, you should go check his LiveJournal later today: he’ll be putting his details up there. He’s a lot more lightly scheduled than I am, though, by his own request.) (Oh, and the master schedule for the con is […]

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…in Belfast this weekend.
For those of who who might not have been following Peter’s LJ lately, over the previous weekend a horsefly bit him. He normally doesn’t react well to such things (physically, I mean: forget the verbal response, it gets rather old after about five minutes…), but this time he swelled up far more […]

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