This coming weekend I will be at the Write Fantastic Convention in Oxford. I won’t be on any panels, but I should have a few copies of Dark Spires with me, and one of the guest writers is my good friend Ben Jeapes, two of whose books I now have available in digital form.
As I will be in Oxford (and for more obvious reasons), I will not be at BayCon. However, Scott Dennis will be there with his t-shirt business, and he has kindly agreed to take a few copies of Dark Spires back to the US with him. So anyone who is going to be BayCon will be able to get it without paying trans-Atlantic postage.
Next month I will be at the Eurocon in Stockholm (17th-19th) (of which more very soon — exciting stuff is due to happen). I will also be at Alt.Fiction in Derby (25th/26th). For complicated reasons to do with train fares and Hilton points I’ll be there all weekend, and Alex has kindly put me on a couple of panels. They are:
- Saturday 10:00am: The Digital Revolution;
- Sunday 3:00pm: The Value of Literary Awards.
Sadly that’s almost it for the year. Once Finncon is over that will probably be me done until BristolCon, because I can’t afford to go to anything I haven’t made a commitment to, or already paid part of the cost of. But I guess it will be nice to spend a few weekends at home.
I sympathies with you mightily. The economic downturn has hit my income so severely that the only trip anywhere I can afford to take this year is EUROCON. (Proximity has its perks).
As selfish as it sounds, I’m glad that it is also one of your possibles. It should be wonderful as there will be a largish group of UK participants whom I know only from blogs and LJ and whom I am really looking forward to meeting face-to-face. And Hannu Rajaniemi as well. WOW!!!
Hey, great! I’ll get to meet you at last.
And as you say, Hannu, wow! 😉
I think it’s going to be a wonderful event. I’m also looking forward to meeting some of the Finns. Tero is from Turku where my grandmother was from. Ah……..Midsummer in Sweden…………