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My presentation yesterday evening was a total success! As in: people showed up! (To my great surprise!) Seriously, I was truly surprised at how many people came to hear me speak at 10 o’clock at night.
Read More Bulgarian Science FictionSmall or big, any con with four guests of honour ends up with lots of interesting programming items. But small ones, like Swancon, have the advantage: very few scheduling conflicts! I will not have to choose between Charlie Stross, John Birmingham, Gail Simone and Lucy Sussex.
Read More Swancon 2013Croatian SF conventions are many and varied. They can be small, 100 to 350 people, and they can be large, like last year’s Kontakt with 1300 people. But none of them are held in hotels.
Read More Cons at hotelsI have finally set the dates and booked all the flights. I will be spending almost seven weeks traveling in Australia and New Zealand on my GUFF trip. AUSTRALIA PERTH March 26 – April 2 2013 Swancon 2013 May 7 – May 9, 2013 MELBOURNE April 2 – April 11 2013 Nova Mob Meeting […]
Read More My GUFF itineraryBeing a freak in real life myself and having a very annoying talent in *not* getting paid for the work I do, this speech really shook me up. Not only because recently – again! – I did some work that ended up being unpaid (living in Croatia sucks!) but also because the nature of my […]
Read More Amanda Palmer’s “The Art of Asking” at TED