Creative Troublemarker. Mum. Geek Whisperer. PR wizard. Journalist. Clutz. Translator. SF fan. Activist. SFera member. Breastfeeding nut. Conrunner. Author.
The best part of a convention is often the discovery of other people enamoured with the same books, characters and worlds. But I came to the world of fandom late and made friends with those who had similar reading interests regardless of where I met them. Petra Bulic, who ran SFera and the was Head […]
Read More The SFera Book Club: Terry PratchettWatching Avengers: Age of Ultron made me think that shipping has gone mainstream. Shippers have become so vigorously unashamed of their ships (not to say proud) that they have become visible to the point where is impossible to ignore them. Shipping as a term originated from Original Star Trek where ship was often referred as […]
Read More Shippers everywhereDue to technical issues, Gillian Polack and I are extending the deadline for the nominations for the 2016 Southbound GUFF delegates! The new deadline is Tuesday, June 9th, 2015! Want to go to Australia and meet an awesome and diverse SF fandom? Yup, it’s far away and expensive. But what if I told you that […]
Read More The race is STILL on – GUFF nominations deadline extensionSFeraKon Sunday always comes too fast and doubly so this year. I think even our GoH Kate Elliott felt it! When I got her to the con,she asked me if food could be ordered in. Yup! There is no leaving SFeraKon for food, too much fun going on! 🙂 Comments comments
Read More SFeraKon 2015: SundayThe hardest thing is to write up the con you help run. The SFeraKon Saturday this year was not a good day for me. I had some work I had to and I got up reasonably early to do it. I felt a small headache but paid it no mind and then suddenly, about half […]
Read More SFeraKon 2015: Saturday