appearances and disappearances

[adelaidesean]

Here's my schedule for the rest of the year:

• SwanCon 36/Natcon 50 (April 21-25) 
• LA Times Festival of Books (April 30-May 1)
• Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (May 11-15)
• Sydney Writers' Festival (May 16-21)
• Aurealis Awards (May 21)
• Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts (May 26-June 5)
• World Fantasy Convention (October 27-30)

If you want to catch me at any of these events, check the sites for program details. I'm the Australian GOH of Swancon, an invited guest of LA, Auckland, Sydney and Hay, a possible presenter of an AA, and just hanging out at this stage at WFC. There will also be the odd signing and tour date outside those festivals, which I’ll try to update here.

Sadly, I won’t be at this year’s Writers of the Future bash because it clashes with both Sydney and Auckland. Congrats to all the winners--particularly, and rather parochially, the Australians (I’m told we have a couple this year). My apologies for not being able to be there to celebrate with you.

I'll also miss the Nebulas (clashes with Sydney), which is a shame as I was keen to attend at least one SFWA committee meeting while ORD. Can't be everywhere at once, I guess, but I still feel a little guilty about it.

If you're in Adelaide and want to catch up . . . July is looking good!

Comments

[thiefofcamorr.livejournal.com]

No kettle?! How does one have cups of noodles and tea (not in the same cup, unless incredibly tired) at all!?

And that's true, I suppose. If going to a con where you have the same interests one would assume you're mostly seeing excellent people :D

London trip will be excellent (going in two weeks, hopefully going again in October) but missing Swancon because of the first trip. Damn my planning skills (well, lack thereof.)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

The kettle thing is really barbaric. :-) You have to use the in-room coffee filtration system to get anything remotely like hot water, and then it tastes like stale coffee grains. Not good at all for peppermint tea, I tell you!

[thiefofcamorr.livejournal.com]

In-room coffee filtration system? What the--?

I can visulise those coffee machines where you put the cup in and select if you want coffee or tea or hot chocolate... but 'in-room'?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

There's probably a proper name for these things that I don't know. You pour a cupful of water into the top. The water is boiled and filters through a sachet of coffee grains. It then drips into a cup in the bottom, perfectly coffee-ized. You can run them without the sachet to get the hot water, but the machines have made hundreds of cups of coffee by the time we tea drinkers get to them, and the flavor has soaked into the very plastic. Probably the caffeine too...

[thiefofcamorr.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that sounds utterly gross. If I'm travelling late then I always need a cup of noodles - if I can't get it I'd be (childishly, I admit) annoyed.

Is the World Fantasy Con on every year?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yup to both. :-)

The WFCs on the west coast are much easier to get to and usually well-populated with Australians. There's often a party just to celebrate that fact. And hangovers the next day...

[thiefofcamorr.livejournal.com]

I think next time it's on the west coast I'll have to go then :D Do you go most years?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Not really. About one in two. This will be my fourth since 2003.

[thiefofcamorr.livejournal.com]

Right, next time it's on the west coast, and next time you go, I shall adventure out and drag a few buddies along with me :D

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Awesome! That would be terrific. :-)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

OK, note to self: find small travel kettle fitted to american power.
:-)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yes. Must get same for myself. (One more gadget to clog up my suitcase...)

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

I figured out how to use the little coffee maker to boil water, sort of! It can be done.