Creative Troublemarker. Mum. Geek Whisperer. PR wizard. Journalist. Clutz. Translator. SF fan. Activist. SFera member. Breastfeeding nut. Conrunner. Author.
The Ditmar Award would be the equivalent of the Croatian SFERA Award, if it were merged with European Science Fiction Society Awards. Kind of. The wikipedia entry equates it with the Hugo, and it is in as much as there is voting going on.
Read More Ditmar Awards 2013My parents had this huge bed which had a radio in the headboard. On Sunday morning, I would lie in with Mum and listen to plays based on fairy tales. This was not enough, of course, so I soon had cassettes. So I fell in love with radio drama at an early age. Later, there […]
Read More Podcast panel todayThe Fan Funds Auction is one of the fundraising activities for GUFF. At Conflux the Auction is on Sunday at 10:00 and I will be putting in these faboulous items.
Read More Fan Funds Auction at Conflux – picsConflux is a science fiction convention held in Canberra since 2004. I have been repeatedly warned it is of a more writerly bent. It seems to mean that is more similar to SFeraKon and Istrakon than Swancon was in terms of writers’ presence and numerous writing workshops. Am looking forward to finding out. My schedule, […]
Read More Conflux ScheduleIt takes me approximately three hours to get from Zagreb to Zadar, the small town in Dalmatia. A 10 minute ferry ride takes me to the island of Ugljan and a 10 minute ride later I will have arrived at the place where I have been spending summers in the last ten years. This trip […]
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