Creative Troublemarker. Mum. Geek Whisperer. PR wizard. Journalist. Clutz. Translator. SF fan. Activist. SFera member. Breastfeeding nut. Conrunner. Author.
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 elseMilena Benini is an award-winning Croatian speculative fiction author who writes short stories, serialized novels and very interesting theoretical essays on SF genre, feminism and vampires. (Wow, that was easy, once I got it out of my system!) She lives in Zagreb with a husband, two daughters and lots of pets. This summer she was […]
Read More Interview: Milena BeniniAs I keep repeating, I am a lousy photographer and it does not look like that might be changing any time soon. Luckily, Croatian fandom has no lack of talented people with good cameras. Zvonimira Ivaniševic attended her first ŠTRUMF and these are her photos.
Read More More ŠTRUMF 2015 photosAfter a few years in Croatian fandom, when I finally got to know most of the people crazy enough to do esefnal things such as conrunning, writing workshops, publishing and such as a hobby, I realized how awesome all these people were. (And I will present each one of them separately on this blog so […]
Read More ŠTRUMF, the Croatian version of SMOFOccasionally, I get asked to speak on TV. A couple months ago it was about the awesome Russian SF film Kin dza dza! which was aired on Croatian TV, today it was about the fictional worlds of Milena Benini, one of the best and most versatile Croatian SF writers. As I was trying to squeeze […]
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