A Blog of Ice and Fire: Day Four
GRRM’s first day in Sydney was appropriately wintry. It was windy and raining and aptly seasonal for any House Stark fans out there. The morning was spent doing various interviews with the Sydney...
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Sign, GRRM, sign for your life! By now it feels like we’re all veterans on the GRRM tour. We’ve hit Supanova together, hobnobbed with the media and giggled like school girls at Lena Headey’s twincest...
View ArticleA Blog of Ice and Fire: Day Six
Remember when I told you that the GRRM tour recap wouldn’t start up again until Adelaide? Well, that was true. At least until I saw on Twitter that one of our wonderfully talented YA authors was going...
View ArticleA Blog of Ice and Fire: Days Eight, Nine and Ten
Dear readers, So here we are – on the other side of GRRM’s Australian tour. (As I type this, I am suffering from a cold that could have been caught from any of the thousands of people I’ve encountered...
View ArticleTouring with Robin Hobb: A blog by someone that is not the Office Kat
Hello friends. You may remember my Blog of Ice and Fire last year – in which I went on the road with George RR Martin. This time, I’m here to tell you a bit about travelling with the very talented,...
View ArticleSpecFic Snapshot 2014 roundup
The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot has taken place four times in the past 10 years. In 2005, Ben Peek spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it’s grown...
View ArticleWhat in the WorldCon??!
Originally I wasn’t going to write up anything about my recent visit to WorldCon because I was a bit stuck for what to say. Then Daily Dot put out this article...
View ArticleJo Spurrier Shortlisted for the Norma K. Hemming Award!
We’re so happy to let you know that North Star Guide Me Home by Jo Spurrier has been shortlisted for this year’s Norma K Hemming award! This award marks excellence in the exploration of themes of race,...
View ArticleSwanCon 40
Swancon the Western Australian speculative fiction convention turned forty this Easter, which means as I’d never been before I was a little late coming to the party. I’ve attended multiple Confluxes,...
View ArticleKylie Chan looks back at SwanCon 40
I’d only been to Perth once before (for a Supanova) and I hadn’t seen any of the city during that trip except for the view out the window of the convention bus. This time I was in Perth for nearly a...
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