This weekend was the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton - a celebration of fantasy, sf, horror and weird fiction, which only visits the UK once in a blue moon.

Thursday 31st OctoberMine and Jay's WFC started on Thursday with a morning roadtrip from Leicester to Brighton with fellow Speculators (our local writing group) Lucy and Phil. Lucy had ( Read more... )

The week before last we headed on up to Newcastle so that I could attend & speak at the University Science & Technology Librarian's Group Meeting. I try to go to USTLG meeting when possible as they're really useful and a great, professionally supportive bunch.

We went via Stoke on Trent in order to find my parents and their canal boat in order to ( Read more... )

I seem to have completely failed to blog for ages, so here's a quick round up of stuff I've been doing....

July saw us out and about every weekend being social and therefore being too tired during the weeks to do much else.

We went to Chesterfield for a Terror Scribes meeting, which is a group of horror writers (we know through the British Fantasy ( Read more... )