I'm off to Eastercon this weekend, for what promises to be a fabulous convention. Two of my favourite writers - Neil Gaiman and Tanith Lee - are Guests of Honour - and I notice that the magnificent and prolific Charles Stross will also be attending. My agent John Jarrold, a veteran of Worldcons and Eastercons, will also be there. I'm new to the SF convention experience, but I expect to be a duck impacting water.
And in fact, from now on my year appears to be cluttered with festivals and conventions - I'm on a panel at Alt. Fiction in Derby, with the gifted Stephen Gallagher, and then in May I spend a week in Cannes, for the Film Festival.
And between those two events comes another great festival, which I would like to shamelessly pimp - the London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film. If you can get to London do check it out.
Now I need to find some time to actually write novels.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:50 am
Really hope you enjoy it there! Looking forward to EasterCon stories. And I'm very jealous of the Neil Gaiman/Tanith Lee bit!
~Chris
March 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hi Philip! Good to meet you too. I trust you survived those frightening beer prices...
See you at one of the other cons this year -- Alt Fiction next for me.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Hey Mark, see you at Alt.Fiction!