Stealing an idea from eruvadhril on her journal, I figured I'd summarise the fantastic weekend in Sydney at The Australian Discworld Convention in bullet-point form.

• Thursday night just catching up and chatting with Sue, Pat, Carmela, Martin, and more. Nice and relaxing, and a great start to the weekend
• Sleeping in a bit on Friday and missing the 9am "help ( Read more... )

The latest Discworld novel "Making Money", by Terry Pratchett, has just been released. I'm just over 100 pages in, but I just had to
share this quote.

( No real spoilers, but if you want to avoid the quote, don't duck behind this cut )

Nullus Anxietas
Australian Discworld Convention, 9-11 February 2007Wow, what a weekend it's been. The Convention was awesome, the best I've ever been to ( Read more... )

Well, it's finally happened.

Unseen Theatre Company have decided (through a public vote, even!) to perform "Pyramids" next April - with the script I wrote four years ago!

If you've got a theatre bug and would like to be involved, I have posted the audition notice on the discworld community ( Read more... )

I realised that I've watched a lot of TV shows and read a lot of books recently, but hadn't recorded anything about them here.

So, this is a short summary and not really a review of any of them, beyond a few words.

Books I've read recently

• The Confusion - Neal Stephenson. Book 2 of the Baroque Cycle. More exciting (in terms of action) than ( Read more... )

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It appears the filming of the Live Action adaption telemovie/miniseries of Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather" is progressing well. Paul Kidby has the full cast lists and some small photos up over at his website. I really hope they do it justice...