I don’t go to many Australian SF conventions. Traveling back and forth across the country is just too expensive and time consuming, and it has been pretty easy to not go over the past few years. But…back in July I went to Continuum 3 and had a ridiculously good time. It’s now set that I’ll be going to Conjure to Brisbane – where I’m guest along with Bruce, Cory, Sean and Kim – which should be wonderful. It looks like Charles will be coming over for it, so I’m pretty excited.

Given that I’m planning on going to the LA World Convention I thought that, apart from a possible Swancon appearance, that that would be it for me next year. But, but, but my buddy Mitch is co-chairing Continuum 4, and it looks like enormous fun. Shaun is going to be a guest. So is Charlie and Margo, and I’m pining for that particular fjord. It’s at the worst possible time for me – less than three weeks before we go to LA – but I’m trying to find some way that I can be there. Hmmm. Mitch is town this weekend. If I can work out something with him, and get permission to go from Marianne…

Time continues to race past. Tomorrow is Robin’s wedding, which should be enormous fun. Next Friday is little Sophie’s fourth birthday, which will be a complete delight. And it’s only seventeen days till I fly to Sydney. No time at all. I need to start making some plans for what I’m doing everywhere, so…

I’ll be in Oakland from Tuesday 25 October until Tuesday 1 November, and again on Tuesday 8 November. If you’d like to get together, drop me an email. As always there’s lots and lots to do, but if I can fit it, I’d love to see people. I’ll also be in Madison for World Fantasy from November 3 to November 7. I’m co-hosting an open party on the Thursday, but other than that, am pretty much free and would love to see people. Let me know if you’ll be there, and if you’d like to get together.

I’ve known Russell for quite some years now – ten or something. It was he who named The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction, which inadvertently lead to the name for this blog and a number of other things. Anyway, just yesterday he emailed me and asked if I would blog about the e-publication of the latest issue of Ticonderoga: Online, which I am dutifully doing. It includes all kinds of crunchy goodness, including fiction from Cat Sparks and Shane Jiraiya Cummings, which is cool.

While this is a good thing, the project of Russell’s that I’m most looking forward to is the re-animation of Ticonderoga Publications and the publication of Troy by Simon Brown. That will be cool.