I’m just back from GenreCon 2012.  Simply put, I had a ball.  It was also very conveniently located in Parramatta, which all conventions should be in future.  Organisationally, it ran smoothly, and felt rather similar to the Romance Writer’s of Australia convention I went to earlier this year, albeit smaller and covering crime, horror and spec-fic ( Read more... )

I’m just back from GenreCon 2012.  Simply put, I had a ball.  It was also very conveniently located in Parramatta, which all conventions should be in future.  Organisationally, it ran smoothly, and felt rather similar to the Romance Writer’s of Australia convention I went to earlier this year, albeit smaller and covering crime, horror and spec-fic ( Read more... )

Just back from Phenomenon 2009.

I played ten sessions and did one Rockband 2 session. My team was Matt K, Malcolm, erratio and mishka_jayne and I met up with a whole bunch of cool people, including daedalist, divaflip, Aidan C, sadfrog, globalthought, kayjay1970, capnoblivious, bunnitos and lots of people who lack LJ names that I’m aware of. Hi to you all. Games were as follows:

1. A Secret of Amber. Even though I've read the ( Read more... )

Sydcon went well. I ran my freeform, 'the Queen of Love and Beauty' twice and went well, even with the first session having eleven out of twenty players and stripping it down to the core elements! Freeforms work well with a bit of structure. In 'Queen', it was about three tourney bouts with intrigue going on in the middle bits. In the Cam, the ( Read more... )