Creative Troublemarker. Mum. Geek Whisperer. PR wizard. Journalist. Clutz. Translator. SF fan. Activist. SFera member. Breastfeeding nut. Conrunner. Author.
Next weekend – February 28- March 1, 2015 – Zagreb is hosting a regional LARP convention, PoRtaL 2015, run by larpers for larpers, with free entrance. The name might look strange, but, as is the custom in geeky pursuits, has meaning: P stands for “play” and for “PoRtaL”, R for “role-play” and L “Larp”. Their […]
Read More PoRtaL 2015It always seemed so wrong to me, seeing kids in American movies don scary costumes in the middle of autumn and go trick or treating. Ringing at doors to get donuts is a winter practice and one could go as whatever one wanted to be. A ballerina, a princess, a typist or a rocket […]
Read More PokladeI remember Eurovision being a big deal when I was a kid. It was a very exciting event; one simply did not spend it NOT watching the TV programe which brought so many hit songs. Croatia, of course, competed as part of Yugoslavia since its début in 1961. I am old enough to remember when […]
Read More Australians at Eurovision!It was a year ago today that Wizard’s Press published the e-book edition of Kontakt, the Croatian SF Anthology that the SFera Society – namely Darko Macan and Tatjana Jambrišak as editor and translation editor respectively – produced as the international version of a two-decade-old SFeraKon tradition for the Zagreb Eurocon in 2012. Which we […]
Read More Kontakt!When we write as somebody else, in another person’s style, does that qualify us as multiple personality disorder candidates or does it just shine a light on the less prominent parts of our personality? I like to think it’s the latter but then again I see faces in the patterns of my wooden doors. In […]
Read More Writing as somebody else