People seemed to quite like my Eastercon report, so I figured I’d post some links to previous gaming convention reports I’d done for my roleplaying webzine Critical Miss, just in case anyone was interested. Here they are: * * * * * Gaelcon… Probably The Greatest Convention In The World While shopping at GenCon we [...]

I spent last weekend at Odyssey 2010, this year’s Eastercon. And in the tradition of previous trip reports, I thought I’d write it up. So here it is. What is Eastercon? Well there’s the obvious answer: it’s a convention held every Easter. There’s the slightly more informative, but still straightforward answer: it’s the British national [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that not only will I be attending Odyssey 2010, this year’s Eastercon, but that I’ll be on a panel too: a discussion on “Humour in SF” that’s provisionally scheduled for 11am on the Monday morning. I’ll post again when I have more details of the panel, or if the time [...]

Last night I went to the London Writers Club to hear a talk by Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly. (You may remember that I mentioned this event last week). It was really good. She gave a lot of good advice, too much to mention, so I’ll just mention two things that really struck [...]

Hi all, Got the an email from Jacqueline Burns and Kirsty McLachlan of the London Writers’ Club which I’ve fused together with some text from the website to produce the following: An Evening With Marie Phillips How to write a novel – from idea to publication Our July speaker is Marie Phillips, author of the [...]

A while ago I posted about the next meeting of the London Writers’ Club. Well that meeting (June 9th) was postponed because of the tube strike, and is instead on tomorrow night (Tuesday 16th June). This is good for me, as I couldn’t make last Tuesday. Anyhow, I’ll be there. If anyone’s into writing and [...]

One for the (London-based) writers among you. The London Writers Club is a new monthly event put on by a couple of agents, with the intention of allowing writers (both working and prospective) to network. A friend of mine put me onto it a few weeks ago. Like I said, it’s fairly new (I believe [...]